25 Years of Clinical Legal Education at La Trobe Uni

Rice Simon , A Guide to Implementing Clinical Teaching Method in the Law School Curriculum (1996) 9–15; Noone M A Dickson J A , ‘Teaching Towards a New Professionalism: Challenging Law Students to Become Ethical Lawyers’ (2001) 4(2) Legal Ethics 127.

See Giddings Jeff , ‘Clinical Legal Education in Australia: A Historical Perspective’ (2003) IJCLE 7 for a useful history of clinic in Australia.

Ibid.

Staff from the Department ran a free legal service with the SRC for La Trobe students from late 1974 to end 1975 when the SRC appointed Adrian Evans as solicitor. See Minutes of SRC 9 August 1974 and 18 March 1976. See also Evans Adrian , ‘Para Legal Training at La Trobe University’ (1978) 3 Legal Service Bulletin 65.

Discussion with Douglas Roger Willis John .

1981 La Trobe University Course Handbook, 212.

See, eg, New South Wales Law Reform Commission, Scrutiny of the Legal Profession: Complaints Against Lawyers, Report No 70, (1993) para 5.21: ‘…the study of legal ethics and professional responsibility should be an integral part of any law school program …’; Australian Law Reform Commission, Managing Justice: A Review of the Federal Civil Justice System (2000); the University of New South Wales has had a compulsory course since 1974. Noone M A Dicknon J A , ‘Teaching Towards a New Professionalism: Challenging Law Students to Become Ethical Lawyers’ (2001) 4 Legal Ethics 127.

Noone M A , ‘Australian Community Legal Centres — The University Connection’ in Cooper J Trubek L G , (eds) Educating for Justice: Social Values and Legal Education (1997) 257–84.

For a discussion of the financial aspects see, Giddings Jeff , ‘A Circle Game: Issues in Australian Clinical Legal Education’ (1999)10 Legal Education Review 33, 52–55.

Australian Law Reform Commission, Review of the Adversarial System of Litigation: Rethinking Legal Education and Training, Issues Paper No 21.

See the Kingsford Legal Service, Guide to Clinical Legal Education in Australian 2003–2004.

See Dickson J A , The Role of Clinic in Linking Law and Justice (Keynote Address at Australian Clinical Legal Education Conference, Griffith University 2003) (copy with author).

Curran Liz , ‘Innovations in an Australian Clinical Legal Education Program: Students Making a Difference in Generating Positive Change’ (2003) IJCLE (forthcoming).