The New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington School of Law
invite you to a public lecture:

Constitutional Collision: Fitzgerald v Muldoon v Wild
Presented by the Hon Justice Stephen Kós

Based on new access to Cabinet and Crown Law files, and interviews with surviving participants, Justice Kos illuminates the legal and political history of, and personalities at odds in, New Zealand's most famous public law case. This lecture was first given at the Australia-New Zealand Legal History conference at Otago University in November, to wide acclaim.

Justice Stephen Kós graduated LLB (Hons) from Victoria University in 1981 (winning the Chapman Tripp Centenary Prize for his graduating year) and LLM from Cambridge University in 1985. He was a junior lecturer in law at Victoria University 1980-82, a partner in the Wellington firm Perry Wylie Pope & Page 1985-88, and a litigation partner at Russell McVeagh 1988-2005. He was chairman of partners of that firm 2003-05. Justice Kós joined the independent bar in 2005, and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2007. He was one of the founding members of Stout Street Chambers in Wellington. He had a wide trial and appellate practice in commercial, contract, equity, competition, environmental and public law litigation. At the time of his appointment Justice Kós was also the Pro-Chancellor of Massey University, Honorary Lecturer in Law at Victoria University and Chairman of the New Zealand Markets Disciplinary Tribunal, the stock exchange disciplinary tribunal. He was appointed to the High Court in April 2011 and sits in Wellington.

To view a recording of the lecture, please click the link below:

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