What is and what should be the aims of the criminal justice system? How well does it perform? How does the NZ system compare internationally?

Panellist Bios:

1. Tui Ah Loo (Ngāti Porou, Tūhoe) is the CEO of PARS, a Not for Profit organisation which delivers a range of specialist services to prisoners, released prisoners, deportees from overseas, at risk youths and their whanau. She is also the Chair of the Runanga at Unitec and Taumata Member of the Auckland District Police Maori Advisory Board. She was previously a governance member of Te Taurahere of Ngati Porou ki Tamaki Charitable Trust and the Director of Operations at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi and Head of School Puukenga - School of Maori Education at Unitec. Tui has a Graduate Diploma of Business and a Master of Educational Leadership & Management and she is an alumni of Leadership New Zealand.

2. Maja Groff is an international lawyer with a background in civil and common law, the comparative study of cultures, and journalism, with a strong interest in business ethics. She is a member of the Advisory Board of B Lab Europe (see B Corp Europe) and also serves on the Board of the Harvard Club of The Netherlands and the Governing Board of EBBF. She is a practising international lawyer based in The Hague, with a focus on developing and servicing international treaties that address cross-border legal matters and fundamental human rights. She previously worked in corporate practice in New York City. She conducts liaison work with various UN and other international bodies and has played a key role in the convening of a range of international legal expert meetings. She holds degrees from McGill, Oxford and Harvard universities, and is an attorney admitted to practice in New York.

3. Guy Fiti Sinclair is a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington. His BA, LLB (Hons) and LLM (First Class Hons) degrees are from the University of Auckland, and he has a JSD (Doctor of Juridical Science; PhD equivalent) from New York University. His scholarships and prizes include a Fulbright Graduate Award, the Gordon Watson Scholarship, the Spencer Mason Travelling Scholarship in Law, and the Fowlds Memorial Prize (awarded to the most distinguished Masters student in Law at the University of Auckland). Before undertaking his doctoral studies, Guy worked for over ten years as a corporate and commercial lawyer in a variety of private practice and in-house roles. In 2011, he completed an internship with the Legal Department of the World Bank in Washington, DC.