Hanna Wilberg

LLB(Hons) BA (Otago)
BCL MPhil (Oxon)

Contact details
Building 803, room 2.14
17 Eden Crescent
Auckland

Phone: +64 9 923 4232
Email: h.wilberg@auckland.ac.nz

Available to students
Monday 4.30 - 5.30 pm, Wednesday 3.30 - 4.30 pm
(on leave for first semester 2012)

Profile

Hanna Wilberg joined the Faculty in 2004 after teaching briefly at Southampton University in the UK. Her previous background includes working as a Judges' Clerk at the Court of Appeal in Wellington and in practice at the Crown Law Office. She is a graduate of Otago and Oxford Universities.

Research Interests

• Administrative law, with a special interest in the boundaries of judicial control of government as represented in rules of standing and justiciability
• Public authority liability
• Bill of Rights
• Treaty of Waitangi

Courses Taught

• LAW 402 Administrative Law & LAW 440 Judicial Review
• LAW 466 Public Authority Liability
• LAW 211 Public Law
• LAW 231 Law of Torts

Recent Publications

Journal articles

• In defence of the omissions rule in public authority negligence claims' (2011) 19 Torts Law Journal 159–190
• Exclusive Jurisdiction for the HRRT?' [2011] New Zealand Law Journal 419–422
• "Administrative Law" [2010] NZ L Rev 177-213
• 'Defensive Practice Or Conflict Of Duties?  Policy Concerns In Public Authority Negligence Claims' (2010) 126 LQR
• ‘Judicial Remedies for the Original Breach?’ [2007] NZ Law Review 713 - 748
• ‘Facing Up to the Original Breach of the Treaty’ [2007] NZ Law Review 527 - 550
• ‘The Bill of Rights and other enactments’ [2007] NZLJ 112 - 116
• ‘Interim Relief in Administrative Law’ [2005] NZLJ 125 - 128
• ‘Public Resource Allocation, Nuisance and the Human Rights Act 1998’ (2004) 120 LQR 574 - 579

Written Conference Papers

• "Substantive Grounds of Review: Mistake of Fact", paper delivered at the Legal Research Foundation conference Judicial Review in Commercial Cases, Auckland, 1 April 2011
• "Interpretive Presumptions and Democratic Principles: Towards a Framework for Analysis", paper delivered at Public Law in Three Nations Symposium, University of Auckland, 8 July 2010
• ‘Policy Concerns In Public Authority Negligence Claims: Perverse Incentives’, LexisNexis Public and Administrative Law Conference 2008, Wellington, 14 - 15 February 2008
• ‘Against Public Interest Standing in Administrative Law: exploring a non-individualist constitutional argument’, VIIth Word Congress of Constitutional Law: ‘Rethinking the Boundaries of Constitutional Law’, Athens, 11-15 June 2007
• ‘After Teoh: Back to the Future? Using the presumption of consistency with international law to read down the scope of statutory powers’, Australian Institute of Administrative Law 2006 Administrative Law Forum, Surfers Paradise, 22 - 23 June 2006

Presentations

• Mind the Gap: No Administrative Law Damages' presentation to the 'Crown Liability Intensive' seminar, Crown Law Office, 17–18 November 2011, Wellington.
• "Negligence Liability of Public Authorities: In Defence of the Omissions Rule", paper presented at Torts Workshop, University of Melbourne, 25 February 2011.
• 'Developments in public authority negligence liability', Crown Law Office in-house Public Law Intensive Seminar, Crown Law Office, Wellington, 5 November 2008
• 'The Defensive Practice Policy Concern In Public Authority Negligence Claims: Paralysis or Conflict of Duties?', invited lecture for Law and Economics Association of New Zealand, Wellington, 11 August 2008
• ‘Interpretive Presumptions and Democratic Principles: towards a framework of analysis’, public lecture at the NZ Centre for Public Law, Victoria University of Wellington, 17 June 2008
• ‘How Assertive? Assessing Use of Interpretive Presumptions Against a Democratic Approach to Statutory Interpretation’, paper presented at the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy 2008 Conference, University of Melbourne, 13 - 15 June 2008
• ‘Exploring Alternative Arguments For and Against Citizen Standing’, informal faculty workshop, Boston University School of Law, 16 April 2008
• ‘Against Public Interest Standing in Administrative Law: exploring a non-individualist constitutional argument’, presented as:
  • staff seminar at Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, 30 May 2007
  • CIPL Seminar, ANU College of Law, Canberra, 17 May 2007
     
• ‘Tort Liability of Public Authorities’, Crown Law in-house seminar, Wellington, 28 - 29 March 2007
• ‘Facing Up to the Original Breach: What the Courts May Do’, Symposium on Pakeha and the Treaty of Waitangi, Auckland University, 6 June 2006
• ‘Effect to be Given to Treaty of Waitangi in Administrative Law: same effect as for international law obligations?’ Australasian Law Teachers’ Association 2005 Annual Conference, Waikato University, Hamilton, 5 - 8 July 2005