Court comes to the marae to celebrate new Chief District Court Judge
All New Zealand courts celebrated the appointment of Judge Heemi Taumaunu as Chief District Court Judge at a historic special sitting of the District Court at Whāngārā marae near Gisborne on Saturday 19 October 2019. Declaring Whāngārā surely the most beautiful place a court has sat, the Chief Justice, the Rt Hon Dame Helen Winkelmann, presided over a bench of more than 60 judges representing all levels of the court system. They sat four deep across the verandah of the Whitireia meeting ho...