Report
Purea Nei: Changing the culture of the legal profession
This report seeks to understand how to change the sexist, bullying culture often experienced by many female lawyers working in the New Zealand legal profession.
Report
Perception inception: preparing for deepfakes and the synthetic media of tomorrow
Synthetic media technologies have huge potential benefits, but they also have risks. Public awareness of this risk of deception has grown through discussion of one kind of emerging audiovisual technology known as “deepfakes”. This research report considers the wide-ranging social, legal and policy issues arising.
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Digital threats to democracy
Many people are calling for greater accountability and care from the big digital platform companies. The question has become - what precisely needs to change? What evidence do we have as to the interventions and solutions that might mitigate against the biggest threats posed to our democracy by digital media? This research seeks to answer...
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Gender ratio of counsel appearing in higher courts
This research, funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation, and carried out by the New Zealand Bar Association, has shown that female lawyers are greatly under-represented in appearances before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
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Solving the problem: causation, transparency and access to justice in New Zealand’s personal injury system
This report advises how to remove the access to justice barriers faced by injured people in New Zealand.