New Zealand Law Students' Association

New Zealand Law Students' Association
Institution	Law schools in New Zealand
Members	Law Students' Societies
Website	www.nzlsa.co.nz

The New Zealand Law Students' Association / Te Roopu Tauira Ture o Aotearoa (NZLSA) is the overarching representative body for law students in New Zealand. The members of the NZLSA are the Law Students' Societies (LSSs) of each New Zealand law school, along with individual New Zealand law students (as student members).

The main operational organ of the NZLSA is the Council, which consists of the President of each LSS, an Executive consisting of the NZLSA President, the Administrative Vice-President, the Education Vice-President, the Competitions Vice-President, Marketing Vice-President and the Treasurer. The Lex Magazine editor is an ex officio officer.

The NZLSA also has two representatives on the New Zealand Council of Legal Education, which is an independent statutory body whose general activities concern public interest and regulatory matters and centre on the Council's responsibilities for the quality and provision of legal training within New Zealand. The Council of Legal Education oversees the LLB curriculum at all NZ universities and regulates professional studies providers. The NZLSA representatives promote student views and are ex officio officers of the NZLSA Council.

The primary goals of the NZLSA are:

to facilitate communication, the exchange of ideas, and collegiality between LSSs and law students;
to provide opportunities for New Zealand law students (such as the opportunity to compete in the NZLSA competitions); and
to represent law students' interests in external fora (such as the Council of Legal Education).

Members

The Current Members of the NZLSA are:

The AUT University Law Students Society (AUTLawSS)
The Auckland University Law Students' Society (AULSS)
The Waikato University Law Students' Association (WULSA)
The Victoria University of Wellington Law Students' Society (VUWLSS)
The University of Canterbury Law Students' Society (LAWSOC)
The Society of Otago University Law Students (SOULS)

At the September 2010 Council meeting of the NZLSA in Dunedin, the AUT University Law Students' Society (AUTLawSS) confirmed its intention to affiliate to the NZLSA and become a Member in January 2011.

NZLSA Conference

Each year the NZLSA holds its annual conference at a different New Zealand law school. The right to host the conference is rotated equally amongst the law schools, with the host LSS taking responsibility for the conference.

While the majority of conference delegates are competitors in the National Championships of the NZLSA competitions, the conference also hosts Council members, incoming Presidents of the LSSs and general delegates. The 2010 conference, hosted by SOULS and the University of Otago, was the first NZLSA conference to welcome general delegates from Australia and from the AUT Law Students' Society (AUTLAWSS).

NZLSA Councils

Year	President	Administrative VP	Treasurer	Education VP	Competitions VP	Marketing VP	CLE Representatives	AULSS President	AUTLSS President	WULSA President	VUWLSS President	LAWSOC President	SOULS President
2005	Chelsea Payne / Prabhat Sethi	Prabhat Sethi	Nicholas Garland	-	Andrew Thomas	-	-	Leith McFarlane	-	Michelle Ormsby		Jonny Mitchell	Charlotte Kirkcaldie
2006	Charlotte Kirkcaldie	Jonathan Mitchell	-	-	Dan Graham	-	-	Bridgette White	-	Sam Mills	Tracey Lee	Cynthia Garton	Pippa Allen
2007	Andrew Thomas	Matthew Green	Sam O'Malley	-	Colin Fife	-	-	Kitaj Woodward	-	Seung Youn	Ihma Shareef	David Dewar	Jeremy Spicer
2008	David Dewar	Seung Yeun	Lara Johansen	-	Wook Jin Lee	-	Colin Fife & Kitaj Woodward	Sunil Nathu	-	Jeni Fountain	Henry Clayton	Steve Jukes	Honor Lanham
2009	Jeni Fountain	Desley Horton	Aimée Scofield	Grace Brown	Anna Cornelius	-	Colin Fife & Kitaj Woodward	Matt Comery	-	Richard Bracefield	Amelia Keene	Nick McDonnell	Phil Thomson
2010	Phil Thomson	Aimée Scofield	Emma Groufsky	Joe Lill	Jamie Eng	-	Colin Fife & Kitaj Woodward	Gavin Correia	-	Ben Gilbert	Nick Chapman	Guy Carter	Rob Harris
2011	Guy Carter	Elisha Kemp	Chris Dearsley	Sarah Keast	Roshni Kaur	-	Phil Thomson & Jamie Eng	Marino Vedanayagam	-	Ashiq Hamid	David Smith	Mike Mullins	Sam Welsh
2012	Rebecca Goldsmith	Nigel Smith / George McLellan	Jono Boyce	Sam Welsh	Ben Foster / Almiro Clere	Courtney Martyn	Phil Thomson & Jamie Eng	Faisal Halabi	Amanda Ferris	Mohammed Alobaidi	Ben Land-Maycock	Seamus Woods	Sam McLernon
2013	Seamus Woods	Rachel Walsh	Shaun Wallis	Hoory Karnik	Sophie Kalderimis	Camille Warnaar	Phil Thomson & Jamie Eng	Camille Butters	Osei Owusu	Nicolette Barrett	Callum Inglis	Simon Inder	Emma Haggas
2014	Rachel Walsh	Faisal Halabi	Sean Maskill	Andrew Pullar	Nicky Wynne	Julie Hands	Seamus Woods & Sophie Kalderimis	Victoria Clarke	Ilinke Naude	Arno Elsing	Myles Snaddon	Jacob Nutt	James Lansdown
2015	Jacob Nutt	Georgia Cameron	James Lester	Ilinke Naude	Amber Hosking	Cameron van Baarle	Seamus Woods & Sophie Kalderimis	Benjamin Kirkpatrick	Karl Schwarz	Robert West	Geordie Johnson	Thomas Scott	Ben Isaacs
2016	Geordie Johnson	Rebecca Brehmer	Amy O'Brien	Thomas Scott	William McGrath	Benjamin Kirkpatrick	Seamus Woods & Sophie Kalderimis	Alex Churchill	Rima Allen	Kate Lunn	Victoria Rea	Edward Coughlan	Jake Mills

NZLSA Competitions

One of the core functions of the NZLSA is to facilitate the regular legal skills competitions that are offered to students in each law school (with the LSS winners representing their university at the National Championships). The current competitions are the NZLSA Bell Gully Mooting Competition, the NZLSA Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Witness Examination Competition, the Russell McVeagh Client Interviewing Competition, and the Buddle Findlay Negotiation Competition.^[1]

NZLSA Champions

Year	Championship Moot		Junior Moot		Witness Examination		Negotiation		Client Interviewing
	Champion	Runner-Up	Champion	Runner-Up	Champion	Runner-Up	Champion	Runner-Up	Champion	Runner-Up
2015	Carter Pearce, Sam Jeffs (Auckland)	Abhiteja Kandarpa, Sean Brennan (VU Wellington)	Caitlin Anyon Peters, Katherine Eichelbaum (Auckland)	Kayla Polamalu and Lucy Kenner (VU Wellington)	Stephen Taylor (Waikato)	Roshana Ching (Auckland)	Ellie Domigan, Jamie Rohan (Otago)	Nasif Azam, Charlie Haines (Canterbury)	Eve Bain, Fayez Shahbaz (VU Wellington)	Hugh Goodwin, Tom Burgess (Canterbury)
2014	Danielle Houghton, Aidan Lomas (Auckland)^[2]	Helen Bond, Stephen Taylor (Waikato)	James Penn, Ed Foley (Auckland)		Sam Jeffs (Auckland)	Tom O'Brien (Canterbury)	Ben Bielski, George Meale (Otago)	Myles Snaddon, Karl van der Plas (VU Wellington)	Luke Archer, Jasmin Moran (VU Wellington)	Joseph Bergin, Hayden Smith (AUT)
2013^[3]	Timothy Conder, Nupur Upadhyay (Auckland)	Duncan McLachlan, Aric Shakur (VU Wellington)	Matthew Budler, Tiaan Nelson (Auckland)	Cyrus Campbell, Melody Zhou (Canterbury)	Caitlin Hollings (Auckland)	Rhiannon Snell (AUT)	Henry Benson-Pope, Tom Jemson (Otago)	Kimberly Eccles, Stephanie Panzic (Auckland)	Luke Sizer, Andrew McLeod (Auckland)	Paul Comrie-Thomson, Peter McKenzie-Bridle (VU Wellington)
2012	Alexandra Sinclair, Campbell Herbert (VU Wellington)^[4]	Andrew Pullar, Sean Maskill(Canterbury)	Duncan McLachlan, Aric Shakur (VU Wellington)	(Auckland)	Timothy Conder (Auckland)	William Findlay (VU Wellington)	Darren Adams, Robert Davies (Waikato)		Adele Taylor, Elisabeth Perham (VU Wellington)	(Auckland)
2011	Benedict Tompkins, Matthew Beattie (Auckland)		Tiho Mijatov and Hannah Drury (Otago)		Jermir J Punthakey (University of New South Wales)^[5]	David Dingwall (Canterbury)	Josh English, Tom English (Otago)		Rob Clarke, Alex Boock (Otago)
2010					Sarah Keast (Canterbury)	Kate Lawson-Bradshaw (Otago)	Andrew Cameron, Benjamin Gilbert (Waikato)
2009					Yogesh Patel (VU Wellington)		Mitch Singh, Roshni Kaur (Otago)
2008					Steven Jukes (Canterbury)		Jason Cooper, Tim Haines (Canterbury)
2007					Scott Leith (Auckland)		Honor Lanham, Emma Peart (Otago)

References

External links

NZLSA.co.nz - official website

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