Speaker Session:

Tikanga restoring the balance: The power of authentic participation sincerity and apology

About Lance Ryan

Barrister and Restorative Justice ConsultantTena koutou katoa - ko Lance Ryan toku ingoa, no Ngāti Maniapoto, me Tuhoe. Kia ora.

 

Lance Ryan is a lecturer at AUT Law School within the criminal law team. He is teaching Criminal Procedure LAWS720 and Law of Evidence LAWS714 in 2024. Lance graduated from the University of Auckland with an LLB before undertaking a Master of Laws at AUT (with a specialisation in Criminal Law). He graduated with an LLM with first-class honours in 2023. His LLM dissertation and research interests focus upon the inequities across the criminal justice system - in particular, the impact on Māori. His PhD will offer a series of articles examining the unintended consequences on wāhine Māori of certains policies with the criminal justice system.

Tikanga restoring the balance: The power of authentic participation sincerity and apology

Joining us virtually, Helen Bowen and Lance Ryan will discuss answers and reveal insights into the following:

  • All participants are injured

  • How might we get hurt people to attend, listen deeply and participate wholeheartedly

  • What is RJ (Restorative Justice) and what are the procedural safeguards?

  • Key elements and strengths

  • The role of separate preliminary meetings for authentic deep listening, sincerity & apology –

  • Pre conference: what about when people don’t really want to attend …. The best person to be listening to all of what you want to say directly to the other party is in this process. A forum where there are things that you may need to hear and say