Report on Professional Women's Dinner on 20 August 2015
11 Sep 2015
The Professional Women’s Dinner on 20 August 2015 was another very successful event for the Canterbury Women’s Legal Association (CWLA). Aside from being an excellent networking opportunity, it was a thought provoking evening for all attendees....
Rabia Siddique - Humanitarian, Speaker and Author
24 Aug 2015
Having an AK47 pointed at your head fortunately is a rare occupational hazard for a lawyer. However it was one that Rabia Siddique faced in 2005 when as a British Army legal officer she was asked to help negotiate the release of two hostages being held in Basra, Iraq....
More Great Speakers for the 2105 CWLA Professional Women's Conference
24 Aug 2015
More Great Speakers for the CWLA Professional Women’s Conference. The programme for the 2015 CWLA Professional Women’s Conference on 9 October 2015 has now been confirmed. As with the previous two years, the speakers will challenge, inspire and inform us....
Kathryn Wilson - On shoes and business
12 May 2015
Article by Catherine Bibbey – Barrister. Kathryn Wilson is one of the speakers at the Professional Women’s conference organised by the Canterbury Womens Legal Association to be held on 9 October this year....
Best Practices (Institutional and Individual) for Development of Women Leaders
15 Dec 2014
Best Practices (Institutional and Individual) for Development of Women Leaders. On 31 October 2014 Angela Searle and I attended the New Zealand Law Society Conference - “Women - the Law and the Corner Office” as guests of the Canterbury Women’s Legal Association....
Article in the September 2014 issue of Canterbury Tales
18 Oct 2014
2014 CWLA conference – Learning from each other. Imagine being beaten up by police, arrested, threatened, watched, followed, your children threatened, your dogs poisoned, all for upholding the rule of law....
Beatrice Mtetwa - Keynote Speaker
02 Sep 2014
2014 Professional Womens Conference – 2 September 2014. Beatrice Mtetwa has been threatened, harassed, beaten, arrested and jailed. She is also one of Zimbabwe ’ s most prominent human right ’ s lawyers and a defender of the rule of law....
CWLA AGM
29 Jun 2014
On 29 May 51 of Canterbury ’ s female lawyers gathered at Duo for the Canterbury Women ’ s Legal Association (CWLA) AGM and presentation of the Dorothy Thompson scholarships. Of course these matters were secondary to the other reason many attended and that was to hear the guest speaker, Canterbury ’ s own newly appointed High Court Judge, Justice Dunningham who provided those present with an insight into life behind the bench....
Catalyst for Change – Business Women’s Conference
19 Jun 2014
Photos by Sheena Haywood Photography. On Wednesday 16 May, 2014, I attended the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce’s Women’s Business Conference in Queenstown. This is the third year that the Chamber of Commerce has run this conference and again it was a sell out at an early stage....
A message from the CWLA
12 Feb 2014
The Canterbury Women’s Legal Association congratulates Justice Dunningham on her appointment to the High Court. It is extremely heartening to see the first “home grown” female practitioner being appointed to the High Court in Christchurch....
