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	Sian Elias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Right Honourable Dame Sian Seerpoohi Elias, GNZM, (born March 12, 1949) is the Chief Justice of New Zealand, and is therefore the most senior member of the country's judiciary.
		Dame Sian became a judge of the High Court in 1995, and occasionally sat on the Court of Appeal.
		Dame Sian is married to Hugh Fletcher, currently Chancellor of Auckland University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sian_Elias (371 words)

	Rt. Hon Dame Sian Elias - LLB(Hons) - Prospective Students - The University of Auckland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After graduating from The University of Auckland in 1972 with a LLB (Hons), Sian practised as a barrister 1975 - 1988, took silk in 1988, became a Judge of the High Court in 1995 and was appointed Chief Justice in 1999.
		Sian has appeared in a number of Treaty of Waitangi Tribunal hearings, and also appeared as counsel in litigation relating to the Treaty, as well as many non-Treaty cases.
		In 2003 Sian was appointed to the Supreme Court.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/for/prospective/learning/alumni/sian_elias.cfm (147 words)

	Monumental Stories \| Biography
		Sian Elias was born in London and came to New Zealand as a young child.
		She graduated in law from Auckland University and, too young (at twenty) to be admitted to the Bar, then obtained a Masters in Law from Stanford University.
		In 1995 Sian Elias was appointed a Judge of the High Court, where her judgment on a defamation case involving a former prime minister was significant in addressing the balance between the freedom of the press and the privacy of a citizen.
	www.monumentalstories.gen.nz /bio_72.html (289 words)

	lindne01
		But High Court Justice Sian Elias said she merely fined Lindner because it was a small amount of drugs for his own use rather than for distribution, because he had no criminal record, and because he admitted he had a drug problem, the New Zealand Herald reported.
		Justice Elias decided Lindner shouldn't become a drain on the Auckland community, and instead should return to the U.S. to address his addiction, the paper reported.
		Elias was also told Lindner's wife and two children were unaware of his drug problem until the arrest.
	www.cincypost.com /news/1998/lindne010798.html (455 words)

	Police shooting of Steven Wallace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dame Sian issued a written judgment yesterday saying Wallace family laywer, John Rowan, QC, could lay a formal indictment against Mr Abbott.
		Dame Sian said in her judgement that the JPs had overstepped the mark.
		Dame Sian said it was only in "extreme cases" that a person should not be committed to trail.
	www.geocities.com /miss_morgan8/facemurdercharge.html (294 words)

	OnlineWomen: New Zealand's Women Leaders
		She has represented the Labour Party at congresses of the Socialist International and the Socialist International Women in 1976, 1978, 1983, and 1986, at an Asia-Pacific Socialist Organisation Conference held in Sydney in 1981, and at the Socialist International Party Leaders' Meeting in Sydney in 1991.
		In March 1999, Dame Sian Elias was appointed New Zealand's first woman Chief Justice.
		Justice Elias graduated from Auckland University and was admitted in 1970.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /nz/nzleads.htm (593 words)

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	Parliamentary Sovereignty : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dame Sian was appointed Chief Justice of New Zealand in May 1999.
		Dame Sian has also appeared as counsel in litigation concerning the Treaty of Waitangi, including litigation regarding fisheries, the transfer of land to State enterprises, broadcasting, Maori language and the Maori electoral option, and has also appeared in many non-Treaty cases.
		In the same year, Dame Sian was appointed a Privy Councillor and became the first woman to sit on the Privy Council in 2001.
	uninews.unimelb.edu.au /articleid_434.html (360 words)

	New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Act abolished the option to appeal Court of Appeal rulings to the Privy Council in London.
		The current Chief Justice is Dame Sian Elias.
		New Zealand's judiciary also includes the High Court, which deals with serious criminal offences and civil matters, and the Court of Appeal, as well as subordinate courts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand (5290 words)

	FarShores.org Far News: Judge Rules Against Tales Of New Zealand Underground City
		Dame Sian said many witnesses relied on childhood memories of more than 50 years ago, were involved in the public speculation, were confused, had brief glimpses or distorted perception.
		At a previous trial in 1996, Dame Sian had ruled that the Crown was in breach of a 1987 agreement to help find the tunnels and excavate them.
		In her latest decision, Dame Sian said it was essential for Mr Earnshaw to prove there was a complex of tunnels containing the equipment he outlined in his statement of claim, and that the defendant's breach of contract had caused him to lose the opportunity to discover the tunnel and the items.
	farshores.org /nztunnel.htm (719 words)

	Awards to distinguished alumni - The University of Auckland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 2001 University of Auckland Distinguished Alumni Award recipients are the Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias, Sir Laurence Stevens, Brian Peace, Dr James Watson, Dorothy Butler and the late Emeritus Professor Bruce Biggs.
		The Rt Hon Dame Sian Elias graduated from The University of Auckland in 1972 with LLB Hons.
		She began her law career as a barrister in 1975 and was appointed as New Zealand’s Chief Justice in 1999.
	www.auckland.ac.nz /uoa/about/news/articles/2001/02/0002.cfm (636 words)

	Lord Cooke, NZ's 'greatest judge', dies - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
		Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias, told National Radio Lord Cooke had touched every area of New Zealand law.
		Lord Cooke, the first New Zealander to be raised to the peerage, was a leading law and academic figure, Dame Sian Elias said.
		She said he was called upon to make decisions in a number of controversial cases in New Zealand.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3782426a11,00.html (783 words)

	Party Vote ACT 2005 // A C T - Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		ACT Justice spokesman Stephen Franks today warned that Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias will be seen as currying favour with the Labour Government after more than a year of frostiness.
		ACT New Zealand Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks today welcomed the frankness of Chief Justice Sian Elias and her colleagues before a United Kingdom Parliamentary committee, regarding the Supreme Court’s shortcomings.
	www.act.org.nz /search.aspx?query=Sian+Elias (432 words)

	Vexatious litigant quizzes justices
		A CHRISTCHURCH man who asked a panel of Court of Appeal justices to declare their religious and social affiliations to assess any bias lost his bid to take his case to the Privy Council.
		John Michael Collier had been declared a vexatious litigant by Chief Justice Sian Elias on March 31 last year.
		This effectively froze any civil cases he was involved in and barred him from beginning any new ones.
	www.skeptictank.org /gen3/gen01844.htm (348 words)

	Newstalk ZB
		Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias, was among those paying her respects.
		Dame Sian is representing the Queen in the place of the Governor-General, Judge Anand Satyanand, who has yet to be sworn into office.
		Thousands of people have made the 10 kilometre journey from Turangawaewae Marae to the foot of Taupiri Mountain where Dame Te Ata will be buried alongside her father Koroki Te Rata Mahuta Tawhiao.
	www.newstalkzb.co.nz /newsdetail1.asp?storyID=102047 (344 words)

	Women in Politics: A revolution of sorts: Angus Reid Consultants
		If New Zealand represented the force for change at the turn of the past century, now it is an example of a new era of women in power.
		Dubbed the ânew girls networkâ some of the countries most significant and powerful positions are held by women including prime minister Helen Clark, attorney general Margaret Wilson, and chief justice Sian Elias.
		Despite evident gains there remain institutional norms preventing women from gaining a critical mass of representation within our political systems and throughout all aspects of public engagement.
	www.angus-reid.com /analysis/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/11880 (721 words)

	silvia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Photo courtesy Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, NZ Early next year, Dame Silvia Cartwright will be sworn in as New Zealand's Governor-General and, for the first time, women will hold all of New Zealand's top government jobs.
		Cartwright will join Prime Minister Helen Clark, Chief Justice Sian Elias, National Party Leader Jenny Shipley, Attorney-General Margaret Wilson and Christine Fletcher, the new mayor of Auckland, in what some are calling the "new girl's network."
		This is not the first time a woman has been appointed Governor-General of New Zealand: Dame Catherine Anne Tizard served in that capacity from 1990-1996.
	www.yourexpedition.com /umbrella_pages/stories/story_weekly_silvia.html (749 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - New Zealand women on top - Wednesday \| September 13, 2000
		The Governor-General will now be Dame Silvia Cartwright; the Prime Minister is Helen Clarke, the Leader of the Opposition, Jenny Shipley a former Prime Minister.
		The Attorney-General is Margaret Wilson, and the Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias.
		I am convinced that this dramatic takeover by women of the government will lead to great success.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20000913/letters/letters4.html (145 words)

	New Governor-General acknowledges growing diversity - New Zealand news on Stuff.co.nz
		Amid a fanfare of trumpets and a 21-gun salute, Anand Satyanand has been sworn in on the steps of Parliament as the first New Zealand Governor-General of Asian descent.
		The ceremony took place before the Prime Minister Helen Clark, Chief Justice Sian Elias, Members of Parliament, as well as dignitaries from the judiciary, diplomatic and defence force.
		Calling the role an "extraordinary privilege" Mr Satyanand said he was committed to doing the best for New Zealand.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/0,2106,3773947a11,00.html (293 words)

	ACT News - Letter to the Law Society - Dame Sian Elias
		ACT News - Letter to the Law Society - Dame Sian Elias
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		Letter to the Law Society - Dame Sian Elias
	www.act.org.nz /news-article.aspx?id=24667 (1330 words)

	Reuven B. Young of Davis Polk & Wardwell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 2004 he received his LL.M. from Harvard Law School, where he received the Laylin Prize.
		He clerked for the Right Honorable Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, from 2002 to 2003.
		He is admitted to the bar of New York and the High Court of New Zealand.
	www.dpw.com /lawyers/bio/rbyoung.htm (155 words)

	Scoop: PM's Presser: Spies, The CJ, Think Tanks & Zaoui
		Questions relating to statements made by Chief Justice Sian Elias to British parliamentary committees in mid-May and reported recently in the Dominion Post.
		Justice Elias's comments to a number of separate British parliamentary committees related to the issues involved in setting up New Zealand's Supreme Court.
		The media coverage of Justice Elias's speech in New Zealand (late July) focussed on comments Justice Elias had made regarding funding issues and also the Supreme Court's title.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0407/S00207.htm (1744 words)

	SSRN-Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2004: Impartiality in Judging and the Passions of Mankind by Sian Elias
		SSRN-Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture 2004: Impartiality in Judging and the Passions of Mankind by Sian Elias
		The Right Honourable Dame Sian Elias, Chief Justice of New Zealand, delivered the Eleventh Singapore Academy of Law Annual Lecture on 3 November 2004.
		In her speech, the Chief Justice made the point that impartiality in judging is the critical condition upon which democratic societies accept the exercise of authority by non-elected judges.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=844285 (197 words)

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		President of the New Zealand Supreme Court, Chief Justice Elias studied law at the University of Auckland and Stanford University in the United States, before practising as a barrister and solicitor.
		Dame Sian was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1988 and was involved in litigation concerning the Treaty of Waitangi.
	www.alta2005.waikato.ac.nz /speakers.shtml (2247 words)

	AdventureDivas: New Zealand: Groundwork
		New Zealand was the first country in the world to award women the vote, back in 1893, and our women haven't stopped winning since then.
		The five top jobs in New Zealand are currently held by women — Prime Minister Helen Clark, Leader of the Opposition Jenny Shipley, Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright, Attorney Justice Sian Elias, and CEO of the county's biggest private company, Telecom NZ, Theresa Gattung.
		With typical New Zealand self-effacement, we call our glorious rainforests "the bush." When I get too hemmed in by the city, I jump in the car and "go bush" for a while.
	www.pbs.org /adventuredivas/nz/groundwork (1076 words)

	www.dailysub.com, A daily news journal of South Asia
		Wellington, Aug 23 (IANS) Amid a fanfare of trumpets and a 21-gun salute, Anand Satyanand has been sworn in on the steps of parliament as the first New Zealand governor-general of Asian descent.
		The ceremony took place in the presence of Prime Minister Helen Clark, Chief Justice Sian Elias, MPs, as well as dignitaries from the judiciary, diplomatic and defence forces.
		Calling the role an "extraordinary privilege", Satyanand said he was committed to doing the best for New Zealand.
	www.literateworld.com /Diaspora1.htm (553 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jubilant cheers erupted in the Supreme Court in Wellington today at news Algerian asylum seeker Ahmed Zaoui will be released on bail tonight.
		Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias delivered the court's judgment this afternoon, allowing Mr Zaoui's appeal and granting him bail.
		Bail conditions are that Mr Zaoui reside at the Dominican Friary in Newton, Auckland, and be present there between 10pm and 6am.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=ahmedzaoui (684 words)

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