We are delighted to invite you to our President’s Function with High Court Judge, Her Honour Justice O’Gorman KC. The President’s Function will be held at MC on 21 February 2024 from 5:30PM.
Justice O’Gorman is the most recently appointed female Justice of the Auckland High Court – taking up her appointment on 23 October 2023.
Justice O’Gorman graduated from the University of Auckland in 1996 with a BCom/LLB (Hons) and worked as a law clerk, then a solicitor, with Buddle Findlay until 1998. She relocated to the United Kingdom and obtained an LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1999, and worked at a law firm in Jersey (Channel Islands) for a year during 2000. On her return to New Zealand in 2001, Justice O’Gorman returned to Buddle Findlay as a senior solicitor, subsequently becoming a senior associate. She joined the partnership of Buddle Findlay in 2005.
In 2019 Justice O’Gorman became a barrister sole, joining Bankside Chambers in Auckland. Her practice included a broad range of commercial litigation, with specialist expertise in insolvency, competition law, judicial review and statutory appeals, conflict of laws, company law and contractual disputes. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2021.
We are grateful to have Justice O’Gorman coming to this event to speak to us about her career and more recent time as a High Court Judge sitting in Auckland. Please register early for this invite as spaces are limited.
Ticket prices are free for members if signed up before 20 February 2024 and $35 for non-members. You must register your free ticket on our event page. Ticket proceeds from this event go directly towards AWLA’s Scholarship Fund.
