Justice Sir Joe Williams, “Negotiating Power Distribution Across the Void”

Keynote Address, Wānanga-Symposium, Waitangi, 16 November 2023

BIO
Justice Williams (Ngati Pūkenga/ Waitaha/ Tapuika) has an LLB from the Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM (Hons) from the University of British Columbia. He became a partner at Kensington Swan in 1992 and went on to co-found Walters Williams & Co in 1994. In 1999 he became Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court and was appointed Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal in 2004. Justice Williams was appointed a judge of the High Court in September 2008, a judge of the Court of Appeal in February 2018, and a judge of the Supreme Court in May 2019.

This wānanga-symposium, held at Waitangi, was supported by Te Tii marae, Te Pihopatanga o te Tai Tokerau, Karuwhā Trust, Laidlaw College, St John's Theological College, NZ Church Missionary Society, and Ngā Wai Hōhonu.