Rychert, M., Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L., Kelly, O., Kersey, K., Freckelton, I. (In press). Discipline of registered professionals for misconduct outside work: A mixed-methods analysis of Teachers, Lawyers and Health Practitioners' Disciplinary Tribunal decisions in New Zealand. Journal of Law and Medicine.

Kersey, K., Kelly, O., Rychert, M., Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K. (2026). A tool for wellbeing? Tribunal penalty decisions in cases involving lawyers’ alcohol and other drug use. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2025.2604541

Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M., Kersey, K., Kelly, O. (2026). Characteristics of professional misconduct by school teachers and early childhood educators: 5 years of disciplinary decisions in New Zealand. Ethics & Behaviour, 36(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2025.2459683

Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M., Surgenor, L., Kelly, O., Kersey, K. (2024). Case commentary: a 'merciful approach' to discipline for a New Zealand lawyer's misconduct. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 31(3), 574-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2024.234009 8.

Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M., Kelly, O., Kersey, K. (2024). To impose or not impose penalty conditions following professional misconduct: What factors are cited by three professional disciplinary tribunals in New Zealand? Laws, 13(6), 69. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws12030059

Rychert, M., Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L. (2024) Professional misconduct can end a career—who should get a second chance? The Conversation, 4 July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2025.2604541

Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M. (2023) Practitioner rehabilitation following professional misconduct: A common practice now in need of a theory? LAWS, 12, 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws1203005

Schulz Moore, J., Forster, C., Diesfeld, K. (2023) Sexual misconduct by New Zealand lawyers: New Zealand Law Journal, 79-85.

Rychert, M., Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K. (2022) What does Shousha mean for professional discipline? LawNews, Issue 42, 5.

Rychert, M., Diesfeld, K., Freckelton, I. (2022) Professional discipline for vaccine misinformation posts on social media: Issues and controversies for the legal profession. Journal of Law and Medicine, 29(3), 895-903.

Schulz Moore, J., Forster, C., Diesfeld, K. (2022) The discipline of, and failure to sanction, sexual misconduct by Australian legal practitioners. Legal Ethics, 25(1-2) 88-108.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1460728x.2022.2146965

Surgenor, L., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M., Kelly, O., Kersey, K. (2022) Criminal   convictions of disciplined health practitioners in New Zealand. Journal of Law and Medicine 29(1), 117-128.

Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L., & Rychert, M. (2020). Breaches of New Zealand's Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights: Human Rights Review Tribunal Decisions. Journal of law and medicine, 27(3), 679–692.

Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L.J. (2020) The Health Practitioner Disciplinary Tribunal. In T. Gibbons, M. Duggal (Ed). New Zealand Tribunals Law and Practice. Wellington: Thomson Reuters, NZ. Ch 10.

Surgenor, L.J., Diesfeld, K., Kersey, K., Kelly, O., Rychert, M. (2020). Fifteen years on: What patterns continue to emerge from New Zealand’s Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal? Journal of Law and Medicine, 28(1):165-178.

Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L.J., Rychert, M. (2020) Breaches of New Zealand’s Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights: Human Rights Review Tribunal Decisions. Journal of Law and Medicine, 27(3):679-692.

Surgenor, L.J., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M. (2019) Consensual sexual relationships between health practitioners and their patients. An analysis of disciplinary cases from New Zealand. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26(5):766-782.

Rychert, M., Diesfeld, K. (2019) Teachers’ health, wellbeing and professional misconduct: An exploratory analysis of cases from New Zealand’s Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal 2017-2018. Journal of Law and Medicine, 26(4), 922-942.

Moore, J., Diesfeld, K., and Forster, C. (2019) Understanding client vulnerability in the disciplining of legal professionals in New South Wales. Journal of Law and Medicine, 26(4), 849-865.

Moore, J., Forster, C., Diesfeld, K., Rychert, M. (2018) New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary Tribunal cases involving vulnerable clients, 2011- 2017. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 26:2-3: 265-294

Surgenor L.J., Diesfeld K. (2018) Outcomes of notifications against psychologists in the New Zealand health context. Journal of Law and Medicine, 25(3):800- 815.

Kersey, K., Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L.J., Ip, M. (2017) Professional discipline of the New Zealand nursing residential care workforce: A mixed methods analysis of HPDT decisions 2004-2014. Journal of Law and Medicine, 24(4):803-820.

Surgenor, L.J, Diesfeld, K., Kersey, K., Ip, M. (2017) Practitioner health issues featuring before New Zealand’s Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal: An analysis of cases 2003-2014. Journal of Law and Medicine, 24(3): 590-596.

Diesfeld, K., Surgenor, L.J., Ip, M., Kersey, K. (2016) Name suppression practices of New Zealand's Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal 2004-2014. Journal of Law and Medicine, 24:504-515.

Surgenor, L.J., Diesfeld, K., Ip, M., Kersey, K. (2016) New Zealand's Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal: An analysis of decisions 2004-2014. Journal of Law and Medicine, 24:239-251

Moore, J., Buckingham, D., Diesfeld, K. (2015) Disciplinary tribunal cases involving New Zealand lawyers with physical or mental impairments, 2009-2013. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 22(5): 649-672.

Diesfeld, K. (2011). Analysis of legal cases for prevention of elder abuse: decisions from New Zealand. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18(4), 737–748.

Diesfeld, K. and Godbold, R. (2010) Legal rehabilitation of health professionals in New Zealand. International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, April, 17(4): 186-194.

Diesfeld, K. (2010) Professional discipline: Analysis of New Zealand Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal decisions. Waikato Journal of Education,15(2): 87-100.