We are delighted to invite you to our President’s Function with High Court Judge, Her Honour Justice Wilkinson-Smith. The President’s Function will be held at MC on 20 February 2025 from 5:30PM.
After graduating from Auckland University School of Law in 1993, Justice Wilkinson-Smith commenced her legal career as a staff solicitor with Brewer Mazengarb in New Plymouth. She later became a partner of Auld Brewer Mazengarb and McEwen in 1998.
In 2004, Justice Wilkinson-Smith entered the independent bar, practising as a defence barrister in Auckland and serving as a Crown panel prosecutor in Palmerston North until 2016. She was part of the Legal Aid Review Panel from 2008 to 2011 and was visiting justice at the Whanganui Prison from 2011 to 2016. She was part of the Legal Aid Performance Review Committee from 2015 until her appointment.
Justice Wilkinson-Smith has acted in several high-profile criminal trials and appeared in New Zealand’s appellate courts. She was also a faculty member of the New Zealand Law Society Litigation Skills Programme. She assumed the role of Crown Solicitor for Whanganui in 2016, taking over from Lance Rowe following his appointment to the District Court Bench in April 2016.
Wilkinson-Smith’s appointment to the High Court took effect on 1 February 2024.
We are grateful to have Justice Wilkinson-Smith 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 18 February 2025 and are otherwise $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.
AWLA thanks MC for generously hosting this event.