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Chair
Bronagh McKenna, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
New Zealand’s Seventh Periodic Report Under the Convention Against Torture: How Domestic Developments Interplay with International Developments
- Mental health facilities and failure to implement previous report
- Deaths in custody
- Age of criminal responsibility for children
- Repeal intellectual disabilities provision
- Investigate torture and ill treatment promptly and effectively
Presented by Dr. Tony Ellis, Barrister, Blackstone Chambers
Learning Objective:
- Receive insights into NZ's compliance with human rights standards.
Presenters
Bronagh McKenna, Barrister, Kate Sheppard Chambers
Bronagh is an experienced litigator, with particular expertise in public law, human rights and international law. Over two decades of legal experience, she has acted for government, international organisations, and blue-chip corporates. Before joining the independent bar in 2023, Bronagh was a Crown Counsel in the Crown Law Office’s Constitutional and Human Rights team. She advised government departments and other Crown agencies on a wide range of matters including the exercise of statutory powers, compliance with administrative law duties, the scope of rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, the extent of New Zealand’s international law obligations and their domestic implementation, and inquiry-related issues. Bronagh’s international experience spans both the criminal and commercial spheres. It includes over seven years as a prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Hague, prosecuting genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Bronagh has also practised as a competition lawyer with premier London law firm Slaughter and May.
Dr. Tony Ellis, Barrister, Blackstone Chambers
Tony is a leading New Zealand and international Human Rights lawyer. Tony practices public law, and criminal law. He is well known for compensation cases covering prisoner’s rights including deaths, or other abuses in custody. His Privy Council case Taito v R for 12 clients resulted in a possible 1500 criminal appeals being wrongly decided. Tony is also the only NZ lawyer ever to have won any cases before the UN Human Rights Committee and UN Committee Against Torture
