| Our local speakers include: |
Judges Ema Aitken and Lisa Tremewan, who together established the pilot adult AODT Courts in Aotearoa in 2012 and preside over these Courts in Auckland and Waitākere respectively. In 2015, they received an ‘Equal Justice Award’ from the Law Faculty of the University of Auckland’s ‘Equal Justice Project’, and in 2017 they also received ‘Significant Contribution’ awards from the Australasian Therapeutic Communities Association recognising their work in the AODT Courts. in the addiction field as a clinical and cultural facilitator, practitioner and adviser for many years. Currently Rā also works for Higher Ground/Papa Taumata in Te Atatu, Auckland
Matua Rāwiri Pene, (Ngā Puhi, Tainui) is the AODT Courts’ Pou Oranga (the Courts’ tikanga cultural adviser and recovery role model – an innovation of the AODT Courts in Aotearoa). Rā brings his extensive lived experience of recovery with his knowledge of Te Reo Māori me ona Tikanga to the role. He has worked in the addiction field as a clinical and cultural facilitator, practitioner and adviser for many years. Currently Rā also works for Higher Ground/Papa Taumata in Te Atatu, Auckland
Professor Warren Brookbanks, Auckland University of Technology, is editor of Therapeutic Jurisprudence: New Zealand Perspectives (2015), founding trustee of the Odyssey House Trust (NZ) and a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law (ANZAPPL)
Dr Fleur Te Aho (Ngāti Mutunga), Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, teaches and researches in criminal law and Indigenous peoples’ rights law. She is examining how the AODT Courts fit with Indigenous rights frameworks
Dr Katherine Doolin, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, teaches and researches in criminal law, criminal justice, and youth justice, and has a particular expertise in restorative justice. She is examining the restorative justice potential of the AODT Courts