PORTIA: THE EVOLUTION OF LAW
  • Home
  • Prices
  • Services
    • Immigration
    • 移民和簽證
    • 預立代理人委託書和遺囑
    • Care of Children
    • Help with Family Violence
    • Protection Order Response
    • Contested Estates
    • Employment
    • Family Justice System
  • Career
  • Information
    • General Info
    • Ethical
    • Justice
    • Diversity
    • Te Ao Māori
    • History
    • News & Views
  • Call us now!

Agreement with Auckland City Mission "very significant"

1/11/2020

0 Comments

 
In 2019 the incoming Chief Justice of New Zealand broke with protocol and in doing so set two justice juggernauts on a collision course.

Dame Helen invited Auckland City Missioner, Chris Farrelly, to give the speech in reply at her swearing in.

In his speech, Chris quoted poet and civil rights activist MayaAngelou, paying tribute to the new Chief Justice as both a “composition and a composer” – someone who not only composes the future of their own life but also helping the future of everyone around her.

The speech inspired Erin Ebborn and Jarrod Coburn to write to the City Missioner, seeking ways to assist their clients access justice.
After 18 months of discussion and planning an operational ​MOU was
signed between Auckland City ​​Mission and Portia, with a commitment to support clients of the Mission who are most at risk.
​
The first initiative is to provide free wills for homeless individuals at high risk of mortality, assisting the Mission to continue providing them dignity in death.
Portia’s VLaw® system will ​​be used to enable urgent applications to be sought under the PPPR, Family Violence and Care of Children Acts.
​
An audiovisual link will also enable training sessions to be undertaken and the learning will be both ways, as Portia staff upskill on the particular
Picture
Chris Farrelly the Auckland City Missioner. Source: NZHerald.co.nz
issues and barriers faced by the Mission’s client base, a very different situation to our women’s refuge partners.

Portia’s Jarrod Coburn sees the new arrangement as “a very significant step” in the role law firms will play in building trust and legitimacy within the justice system.
​
When people lead by example ​then others often are compelled to follow. Chris Farrelly and the Chief Justice together presented a wero to the profession. Nobody should be afraid to pick up the taki.
0 Comments

    Categories

    All

    Archives

    November 2020
    October 2020
    April 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018

    RSS Feed

Click here to read our privacy policy
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Family violence is not OK
Picture
We Respect the Flag
Picture
  • Home
  • Prices
  • Services
    • Immigration
    • 移民和簽證
    • 預立代理人委託書和遺囑
    • Care of Children
    • Help with Family Violence
    • Protection Order Response
    • Contested Estates
    • Employment
    • Family Justice System
  • Career
  • Information
    • General Info
    • Ethical
    • Justice
    • Diversity
    • Te Ao Māori
    • History
    • News & Views
  • Call us now!