Helen specialises in public law, including constitutional and international law issues, human rights and regulatory matters, and Treaty of Waitangi issues. She is also a part-time Law commissioner with the New Zealand Law Commission, where she has been involved in reports on Maori governance, custom and human rights in the Pacific and the reform of law relating to public inquiries.

Previously she worked for 10 years at Crown Law Office as a member of the Treaty and International team, leader of the Commercial Regulatory team and Deputy Solicitor-General (Constitutional). Helen has represented the Government in a number of major Treaty and other cases. She was appointed as a Queens Counsel in 2005. For many years she represented the New Zealand Government at meetings of the Pacific Islands Law Officers Network (PILON) and has been a faculty member for the PILON and NZLS litigation skills courses.

Helen has also worked as a Principal State Solicitor in Samoa and in Wellington firms, where she had a general civil and criminal law practice.

She was admitted to the bar in 1982 and has a LLB (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington and a BA from the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. She has been an adjunct lecturer in public law at Victoria University, and has presented a number of seminars on judicial review and Treaty and related issues.

For a full CV please click on this link: Helen Aikman QC

Contact
Tel: +64 4 499 6040
DDI: +64 4 460 0741
Mob: +64 21 220 5410
Fax: +64 4 499 6118
Email: helen.aikman@chambers.co.nz