Mingze Sun

Mingze has extensive experience in all aspects of both the criminal and civil jurisdictions of the Courts with particular expertise in sentencings in the criminal justice system. Mingze worked at one of the busiest criminal jurisdictions in New Zealand. 

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Mingze is a barrister and completed his LLB(Hons)/BSc at the University of Auckland, where he received several scholarships and academic recognitions, including achieving first in exam in Financial Markets Law and Sociology and first in course award in Anthropology. Mingze previously served as an adjunct lecturer for the Commercial Law Department at the University of Auckland. He was also the Senior Lead Tutor for both the Law of Torts and Equity and a tutor for Public Law, Criminal Law, Law of Contract, and Commercial Law at the University. Additionally, he serves as a judge for the Auckland Law School Moot Court and was the Editor-in-Chief of Issue 10 (2023) of the Public Interest Law Journal of New Zealand. Previously, he was an editor for the Auckland University Law Review, which published his Honours dissertation in Volume 27(1) (2021). Before joining the independent bar, Mingze was a litigation solicitor, a Judges’ Clerk, and earlier, an associate trade mark examiner at IPONZ. Mingze accumulated an acute business acumen over a decade of senior management experience prior to law school.

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Mingze is a Council Member of the Law Association of New Zealand (TLANZ); member of the New Zealand Bar Association; the Criminal Bar Association NZ; Convenor of the NextGen Lawyers Committee of TLANZ; and member of both the Access to Justice Committee of the New Zealand Law Society and the Criminal Lawyers Committee of the NZ Asian Lawyers Association. Mingze actively contributes to the legal community as a volunteer lawyer and legal education presenter for Community Law and Citizens Advice Bureau.