Our team

Toli is one of five siblings of Samoan parents Vaiula Fatialofa (Lēpā) and Vatau Sagaga (Matāfagatele Moataa) who migrated to New Zealand in the 1960’s settling in Wainuiomata, Te Awakairangi. Toli commenced her legal career in 2000 in a small family law practice, moving to criminal law working with high profile criminal barrister, the late Greg King. She also worked in the UK as a childcare and protection legal adviser at Kent County Council.

Toli has used her legal skills and Pasifika knowledge in various roles involving Pasifika engagement including private secretary for the Minister for Pacific Peoples, secretariat for the Advisory Group for the Minister for Pacific Peoples, member of the Senior Pacific Advisors Group for the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, member of the Government Legal Network’s Increasing Māori and Pāsifika Lawyers in Government project.

Email: Toli.Sagaga@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 214 3152

Priscilla (Samoa, Italy, Malta) is an alumnus of Victoria University Te Herenga Waka, graduating with an LLB (Hons) degree in 2004. She was admitted to the bar in 2004 and has extensive public sector experience having worked as a policy analyst for the Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua, as legal counsel for Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, and most recently as in-house Legal Counsel for New Zealand Police Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa. She also has a breadth of litigation skills during her time in private practice, where she specialised in constitutional and public law.

Priscilla brings with her a wide range of beneficial relationships with senior Pacific leaders as a founding trustee on the Fale Malae Trust and as a long-standing member of the Pasifika Komiti of Victoria University Te Herenga Waka. Priscilla also brings a diverse multi-cultural background to the PJSP team as well as exceptional legal and governance skills.

Email: Priscilla.Agius@justice.govt.nz

Tina Pope has been supporting Pacific and New Zealand judges for more than 20 years, writing and editing Bench Books and developing education programmes and resources. She started at the Institute of Judicial Studies on a short-term contract on its very first day and has been involved in one way or another ever since. Tina led the Bench Book project for the Pacific Judicial Education Programme in 2003-2004 and was the Programme Manager for the Judicial Pacific Participation Fund 2018-2021.

Tina is involved in numerous community organisations. She is passionate about fairness, community and justice for all.

Email: Tina.Pope@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 4 496 3999 | +64 27 232 9998

Holly brings rich experience developing and delivering projects through a variety of modes and sectors including community, local and central government and across the arts. By building relationships from the flax roots up to the decision-makers she enjoys connecting diverse people to create meaningful change.

She encourages creative ways of learning and a flexible, responsive project management style -- stemming from a colourful career as a professional musician, music teacher, community advocate and mother. She lives in the small seaside village of Paekākāriki where she has enjoyed a long history of involvement in community initiatives.

Email: Holly.Ewens@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 270 7090

Janine Ford started her career in legal publishing at Butterworths of New Zealand (now LexisNexis New Zealand) going on to edit the Tonga Law Reports for a number of years. She also has extensive experience in the public service in New Zealand through her work for the Ministry of Justice, the Department of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Education.

Email: Janine.Ford@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 249 2968

Sylvia is a Project Advisor for the PJSP team. She coordinates and supports the implementation of PJSP events and activities. Sylvia has an extensive background in administrative and project support and has spent the last 15 years working in the science industry. 

Email: Sylvia.Riches@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 421 3990 

Delwyn comes from a background as a trainer and facilitator with a solid career of 30+ years with the Ministry of Justice, providing guided support and learning to enable staff to succeed in their roles. She gained her knowledge and experience from working within the Ministry across the multiple jurisdictions at an operational level before becoming a trainer.

Email: Delwyn.Temoni@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 224 2445

Tere Silas is Solomon Island-Kiwi (from the Makira and Malaita provinces) and has strong cross-government knowledge as well as a background in Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies. As a Pasifika woman, Tere always aspires to work in fields that empower other Pacific Islanders, further ensuring that their communities are strong and independent.

Email: Theresa.Silas@justice.govt.nz
Phone: +64 27 350 3361

Jennifer is a court management and administration specialist and has served on court development programmes as team leader, project manager and lead adviser for organisations such as the UN, World Bank, European Public Law Centre and Federal Court of Australia in over 20 countries across Europe, Asia and the Pacific.  Jennifer is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Management & Leadership and is an assessor for their Chartered Manager Accreditation. She is also an Adjunct Fellow of the Courts and Tribunals Academy at Victoria University, holds qualifications in social science and law and speaks fluent German. Career highlights include leading a project to institute the Dayton Peace Agreement Final Arbitral Award after the war in the former Yugoslavia and working with our Pacific partner courts for over ten years. 

Cate is responsible for assisting courts with their annual reporting processes, including the collection and reporting on gender disaggregated data and client perception surveys. For over 20 years, Cate has worked in the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, focusing on access to justice, human rights and judicial reform. Cate worked as an adviser on PJDP and PJSI and has worked in a number of international law firms and NGOs. Cate has recently launched a research publication on Women and Children's Access to the Formal Justice System in Vanuatu, commissioned by UN Women.

Carolyn is responsible for adapting and integrating norms of International human rights law with local customary values and practices to assist PJSP partner courts in formulating local approaches to human rights. In addition to this, Carolyn works to develop and build the capacity of Bar Associations and Legal Aid providers within PJSP partner countries. She is a barrister and solicitor with more than 20 years' experience, specialising in human rights, refugee law, justice reform, community and customary legal empowerment, and gender justice. She has worked with a range of United Nations organisations and a number of international NGOs, and on developing legal aid models and the capacity of Bar Associations in under resourced environments. She has a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne.

Tony is responsible for the development and strengthening of Information and Communications Technology-related systems and processes in the management of courts and their caseloads. Tony is a court systems and court performance specialist with over 23 years' experience with courts in Australia, the Pacific, SE Asia, Africa and central Asia. His experience includes implementation and ongoing use and management of technologies, and he is well-versed in the challenges of introducing technologies and systems into court environments.

Qualified in law (Lincoln’s Inn, London), social work (Queensland University) and legislative drafting (USP) she has over 25 years experience working on legal, gender, human rights and environment issues in the Pacific region. She has held a number of key positions in the Fiji Government as Director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development; at the University of the South Pacific, as Director of the Institute of Justice and Applied Legal Studies, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Laucala) and Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor.  As a former High Court Judge of Fiji, she played a key role in establishing the Family Court of Fiji. From 2011 to 2017, she has been engaged as a Senior Expert, Legal and Human Rights Consultant for the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team and has worked on a range of issues in the Pacific including violence against women, drafting family violence legislation, Judicial Code of Conduct, undertaking Judicial training and legal training at the tertiary, legal and community levels.

She is the author of a number of publications.

Enoka Fereti Puni is Samoan and presently resides in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a former judge and in the past 20 years has been a judicial training consultant to most Pacific regional judicial training and development programmes and initiatives. He has been particularly passionate and committed to lay judges’ professional development and the incremental enhancement of their judicial knowledge, skills and values to enable them to provide proper and quality justice within the scope of their jurisdictions.