The Pegasus Scholarship was established in 1987 as a means of building links between the legal professions of countries who share the common law system. Each year litigation practitioners in their first five years of practice travel from their home countries to London to undertake the scholarship, and vice versa. I was fortunate to be awarded the NZ Pegasus Scholarship in 2023 along with Taz Haradasa and Kayla Grant (pictured right).
In London I was placed at two different barristers' chambers and spent most of my five weeks there shadowing various prosecution and defence barristers in court. Although the Scholarship is open to any type of litigator, in New Zealand I work as a Crown Prosecutor, so I asked to observe criminal hearings. Highlights included a murder trial at the Old Bailey, a rape trial in the Snaresbrook Crown Court, and a multi-defendant drug dealing trial in the Isleworth Crown Court.