Author: Pamela Henderson

  • CLE15: Reflections (PH)

    Our CLE 2015 Conference is drawing to a close.  My co-blogger, Paul, will have the honour of posting our final blog entry, so watch out for that.  In the meantime, we have Prof. Patricia Leighton, co-director of LERN UK, bringing formal proceedings to a graceful close.  LERN has done a huge amount of work in…

  • CLE15: The Role of Legal Clinics in Access to Justice in Turkish Legal Education

    Presented by Kilinc Ayse and Akkus Ezgi Fulya from Afyon Kocatepe University in Turkey. Kilinc and Akkus focused on how they are helping their students to develop the skills they will need to support their future clients in accessing the justice system.  In particular, they discussed: the right of access to justice as a legal…

  • CLE15: Nottingham Creative IP Project (PH)

    Presented by Nick Johnson and Janice Denoncourt from NLS. Janice and Nick had sponsorship of £69,000 (a lot for Law) from the Intellectual Property Offic and the EU to establish a project that combined expertise from the NLS Legal Advice Centre, the IP Research Group, the Hive and the School of Art & Design.  They…

  • CLE15: McKenzie Friends (PH)

    My last live blog for today! Full title:  Training Law Students to be McKenzie Friends for Victims of Domestic Abuse. Presented by:  Veronica Lachkovic who teaches on the Bar Professional Training Course for aspiring barristers at City Law School. Ronnie spoke to us about the invaluable work she has been doing, supporting and training students…

  • CLE15: It’s Jane and Michele (PH)

    Full Title:  Justice for All:  Reflective Practice and Reflective Learning We had a double act, as this session was co-presented by our own Prof. Jane Ching (who coincidentally has just launched a distance learning LLM in Legal Education) and also Michele Leering, Executive Director of the Community Advocacy & Legal Centre in Canada (and passionate…

  • CLE15: Jane Harries – Justice through Training for All (PH)

    Some of you may know Jane from TNA Consulting Services.   If not, here she is: The Costa Coffee product placement was accidental! Jane opened with taxation of milk quotas – talk about a unique angle.  Well done Jane, you’d win a prize for originality, if we had one! Jane’s talk focused on training in the…

  • CLE15: John Hodgson – What is a solicitor (PH)

    John is a Reader in Law here at NLS. John explored the changes taking place in the legal profession, specifically in the context of solicitors in England & Wales. He started by explaining that solicitors are those looking to make lots of money, not Ladies of the Night!  Thanks for clearing that up, John. Even…

  • CLE15 presents: Becky Huxley-Binns (PH)

    Full Title:  A threshold concept of undergraduate law and ethics For those of you who don’t know Becky (that will be one person at most, then), she is currently at the University of Law and is also Chair of the QAA Law Subject Benchmark Review Panel 2014-15, UK. Becky is here to explain the work…

  • CLE15: Ethics in Action (PH)

    Full Title – Ethics in Action: Two PBL workshop sessions demonstrating the innovative way legal education can be delivered to enhance students’ consideration of access to justice issues. Our speaker is Jenny Gibbons who is a teaching fellow at York Law School, where guided-discovery PBL (as opposed to open-discovery) is the standard approach across their…

  • CLE15: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (PH)

    No, this is not a review of the day’s events, but the title of Prof. Janine Griffiths-Baker’s inaugural lecture. Full title:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Lawyers in Film and Fiction. Janine is Dean of the Law School, here at Nottingham Law School.  She is just being officially introduced by Prof. David Burdette. …

  • CLE15: Building a foundation for access to justice: unlocking the 1st year curriculum (PH)

    Dr Liz Hefferman, associate professor at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland is now talking to us and I’ve just scored my first handout of the day. Liz wants to talk about the re-design of the curriculum Foundations of Law course (used to be known as the Irish Legal System).  She identifies access to justice as something…

  • CLE15: Suppose the class began the day the case walked in the door (PH)

    Jennifer E Spreng from Arizona Summit Law School, USA.   Key point: the way we learn is inherently integrated, so we have to reflect this in the way we teach. I am being asked to imagine it’s my first day at law school and the tutor has told me a new client, Lee Taylor, is…