Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Latest

Judge and TV star partner apologise after confrontation at NZ First event

Judge Ema Aitken news
Judge Ema Aitken (L), David Galler (R), Winston Peters (Inset).

A district court judge and her reality TV star partner have issued apologies following a heated confrontation at a New Zealand First Christmas function last month.

According to a report in The Post, Judge Ema Aitken and intensive care specialist David Galler disrupted the event at Auckland’s exclusive Northern Club by verbally confronting Winston Peters and his party members. Witnesses reported Aitken shouted accusations of dishonesty during Peters’ speech, while Galler allegedly blocked Peters’ exit and criticised the coalition government. Galler also made remarks interpreted as racist towards a staff member of Indian heritage, which he later denied, though he acknowledged his behaviour as “inappropriate and wrong.”

Chief Judge Heemi Taumaunu issued an apology on behalf of the court, calling the events “regrettable and unacceptable.”

The Northern Club’s incident report revealed further tension, including Galler verbally challenging NZ First’s Casey Costello over her repeal of smokefree legislation.

Prominent barrister Michael Reed KC was also implicated for refusing to stop taking photographs of NZ First guests despite club rules.

Attorney-General Judith Collins condemned the behaviour as “completely unacceptable,” saying that such actions have no place in public or professional settings.

Support DTNZ

DTNZ is committed to bringing Kiwis independent, not-for-profit news. We're up against the vast resources of the legacy mainstream media. Help us in the battle against them by donating today.

No login required to comment. Name, email and web site fields are optional. Please keep comments respectful, civil and constructive. Moderation times can vary from a few minutes to a few hours. Comments may also be scanned periodically by Artificial Intelligence to eliminate trolls and spam.

22 COMMENTS

  1. More liberal “elites” being hysterical when things are not exactly as they fantasize. This is nothing less than adult tantrums. They need a good sharp smack to snap them out of it. The world is tired of all the Far left Liberal WEF BS…..

  2. 14 months after being voted in, and still the jabs are promoted. Does anyone think if Australian Senator Malcolm Roberts was deputy PM that would be the case?

    Winston is the status quo safety net

  3. Thank you Ema, David and Michael for providing the country with a delightful pre Christmas scandal. Better than any television soap opera. These arrogant, self entitled narcissists have exposed themselves to be very ordinary people. Alcohol is a great leveller. This judge can never be ever again taken seriously.

    • Yes indeed. Typical narcissists who ‘feel’ their stupid uninformed indoctrinated marxist opinions are somehow important.

      The obvious concern being this particular alcoholic imbecile is actually employed as a judge.

      Genuinely frightening.

  4. I’m so sick and tired of paying my hard-earned tax dollars to these evil stupid drunk self-serving corrupt woke lefty ‘judges’.

    Things need to change. We can no longer tolerate these dreadful parasites.

  5. Goodness me!!!

    This idiotic alcoholic judge needs to be fired immediately.

    We simply cannot tolerate foolish depraved morons like this siting in judgement on others.

  6. Brilliant!

    Drunk stupid embarrassing sociopathic woke judge, plus lunatic racist friend.

    All funded by the tax-payer.

    What’s not to like?

  7. Tax-payer-funded entitled hypocritical woke marxist drunk cretins.

    How on earth do people like this retain their government employment?

  8. Well well well DAVID GALLER of all people. I was just reviewing an old video about high dose intravenous vitamin C saving lives, for those with acute respiratory conditions. on youtube watch?v=xxWCNn1rIRo and in the response video at the 23:20 mark, some establishment medical sycophant comes on and blatantly lies about it, making claims that there’s no evidence for it. Typical. What an ABSOLUTE F-WIT ! The 60 mins video doesn’t put a name in text on the screen.. so I listened carefully… they mentioned “David Galler”… so I paused the vid and ran a quick search.. and this popped up. So I can confirm that this “David Galler” chump wasn’t just having a one-off incident at the Northern Club. He’s a documented F-WIT, for more than a decade. F that guy, and the horse he rode in on.

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Wellington
broken clouds
17.7 ° C
18.8 °
16.6 °
78 %
5.7kmh
75 %
Tue
18 °
Wed
18 °
Thu
19 °
Fri
18 °
Sat
16 °




Sponsored



Trending

Sport

Daily Life

Opinion