Hannah Yang
Hannah is one of the junior barristers at Thorndon Chambers. She assists barristers at Thorndon Chambers with legal research, drafting pleadings and submissions, reviewing evidence, and court appearances.
Before joining Thorndon Chambers, Hannah clerked for Justice Joe Williams in the Supreme Court from 2019–2021, during which time she worked on a wide range of public, private and criminal cases. She graduated from the University of Auckland in 2019 with a BA/LLB(Hons), receiving a Senior Scholar Award in law, as well as prizes for first in commercial law, first in company law and for obtaining the highest GPA across her two best elective courses. She was admitted to the bar in 2020.
Hannah enjoys working in all areas of law and has published work on a variety of topics and in multiple journals, including the New Zealand Law Review, the New Zealand Law Journal and the Auckland University Law Review. She is fluent in spoken Mandarin. In her spare time, Hannah enjoys sketching, painting, and drawing bad cartoons.
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Member, New Zealand Bar Association
Executive Member, Aotearoa Legal Workers’ Union (2020–2021)
Judge’s Clerk, Supreme Court (2019–2021)
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland (2018)
Summer Clerk, Bell Gully (2017–2018)
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“A principle of legality for the Treaty of Waitangi” [2022] NZLJ 400
“Human rights remedies and responses” in Human Rights Intensive (NZLS CLE, Wellington, 2022) (co‑authored and co‑presented with Douglas Ewen)
“Exclusivity, substantial interruption and the burden of proof in Re Edwards (Te Whakatōhea No 2)” (2021) 27 Auckland U L Rev 415
“Stafford v Attorney-General [2021] NZHC 335” [2021] NZLJ 139
“The Law of Wheel Clamping in New Zealand” [2020] NZ L Rev 71
“A New Zealand Copyright Analysis of Memes” (2019) 25 Auckland U L Rev 83
“Acts, Omissions and the Doctrine of Double Effect: The Law and Ethics of End of Life Choice in New Zealand and the United Kingdom” (2018) 5 PILJNZ 97
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LLB(Hons), University of Auckland (Senior Scholar)
BA (Philosophy and Psychology), University of Auckland
Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court in 2020
