Auckland District Court

The Auckland District Court

The Auckland District Court is the largest court of Australasia, an imposing judicial building in the heart of the financial centre of Auckland. The Auckland audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this building where the great decisions of justice are taken, and the occasion to evoke the political functioning of New Zealand, member of the Commonwealth.

The largest court of Australasia

The imposing building that is on your right is the largest court of Australasia, that is to say of the region bringing together Australia, New Zealand and the neighbouring lands. It is here that the great judicial decisions are taken, and the building is part of the great institutional buildings that compose the financial centre of Auckland. It is the occasion to evoke briefly the political functioning of New Zealand, in its broad lines. You probably already know, the country nicknamed the land of the kiwis is part of the Commonwealth, this organisation that gathers States having formerly belonged to the British Empire. Constituted by the London Declaration of 1949, the Commonwealth gathers these States under a free association, around common values. New Zealand is a constitutional and parliamentary monarchy: the British sovereign is its symbolic head of State, represented locally by a governor-general, while the real power belongs to the Parliament and the Prime Minister, resulting from democratic elections. The country is also recognised for having been, in 1893, the first in the world to grant the right to vote to women. The judicial system, inherited from British law, is organised in several degrees of jurisdiction, including the District Courts like this one, that deal with the majority of the current cases. An official building and a symbol of the rule of law, the Auckland District Court is a stop of the discovery of the town.

What to see

Here you discover the largest court of Australasia, an imposing institutional building of the financial centre of Auckland where the great judicial decisions are taken; it illustrates the system inherited from British law of New Zealand, a constitutional monarchy member of the Commonwealth and the first country in the world to have granted the right to vote to women, in 1893. The Auckland District Court is a symbol of the rule of law. It is a stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Auckland District Court lies on Albert Street, in the heart of the centre of Auckland, reachable on foot. It is a judicial building in activity whose exterior you admire above all; the interior access follows the conditions and hours of the court, which vary. You discover it during a walk in the centre.

What is the Auckland District Court?

The largest court of Australasia, an imposing institutional building of the financial centre of Auckland where the great judicial decisions are taken; it illustrates the system inherited from British law of New Zealand, a constitutional monarchy member of the Commonwealth and the first country in the world to have granted the right to vote to women, in 1893.

Where is the Auckland District Court?

On Albert Street, in the heart of the centre of Auckland, in New Zealand.