LAW116 – Writing and Communication for Legal Professionals

Introduction

Welcome to your LAW116 residential school thinkspace site. I look forward to working with you during the 3 day residential school from 27 – 29 August 2020 inclusive.

Your residential school will be delivered online and will be a combination of pre- recorded sessions, live zoom sessions, and working through Assessments 2 and 3. You have two options with regards to your commitment to the residential school:

  1. Watch the pre-recorded sessions when they are available and then set aside the allocated time on 27 -29 August 2020 to attend the live sessions; or
  2. Follow the scheduled timetable and set aside the three days to listen to the recordings and attend the live sessions in order as per the timetable.

As the LAW116 residential school is compulsory you are required to watch all pre-recordings and attend all live sessions. However, if circumstances arise due to Covid-19 that prevent you from attending the live sessions,  the sessions will be recorded, in which case you will be required to watch the recordings and to send me an email confirming that you have watched all of the live sessions. If you do not attend the live sessions, you will not meet the residential school attendance requirements unless I receive an email from you confirming your viewing of the live sessions.

 

Alexandria Robinson
Subject Coordinator

 

Workshop Programme

Please refer to the attached timetable for detailed information regarding session times, topics, format etc. If applicable, the link for connecting remotely to identified sessions can be found below (‘Attending remotely’).

 

LAW116 Writing & Communication for Legal Professional Program

 

 

Guest Speakers & Sessions

 

Communicating with Indigenous Clients

Guest Speaker: Annette Gainsford
Thursday 27 August 2020
Annette Gainsford Annette has a particular interest in the social and political factors that affect successful outcomes for Indigenous Australians and has experience in advising on policies at regional, state and national level. Annette’s current PhD research focuses on the embedding of Indigenous knowledges in higher education curriculum encompassing international case studies in law.
Annette will discuss some important aspects of communicating with Indigenous clients, and will also participate in a question and answer session on this topic.

 

Advocacy and how to present a guilty plea

Guest Speaker: Bill Walsh
Friday 28 August 2020
Bill Walsh (Adjunct Associate Professor & CSU Barrister in Residence)

William (Bill) Walsh completed his law degree by distance education at Macquarie University as a mature aged student prior to being called to the Bar in 1983.

From 1967 to 1986, he was a serving member of the NSW Police Force performing a variety of police duties in the metropolitan and country areas of the State.

From 1987 to 1994, Bill was a Lecturer-in-Law at Mitchell College/Charles Sturt University.

For those seven years, he taught internal and distance education students.

Bill has practised as a barrister since 1987 in various areas of the law and in the past 15 years has specialised in criminal defence work.   He has acted as defence counsel in 400 jury trials before the District and Supreme Courts of New South Wales.

He holds postgraduate qualifications of Master of Laws (University of Sydney) and Master of Social Science (Criminology) (Charles Sturt University).

In 2016, Bill was appointed Barrister-in-Residence at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt with the title of Adjunct Associate Professor.
In this session, Bill will provide an introduction into good Court advocacy techniques, as well as demonstrating a mock guilty plea.

 

Interview Assessment

Guest Speaker: Arlia Fleming
Friday 28 August 2020
Arlia Fleming Arlia has worked in the community legal centre sector since 2007 in various roles and is currently the Principal Solicitor of Elizabeth Evatt Community Legal Centre in the Blue Mountains.
Arlia will be assessing the mock interviews.

 

Preparation (readings, links, activities)

The following tasks are recommended prior to the indicated day:

Day 1:

 

Day 2:

 

Day 3:

Workshop Recordings

Day 1: 

 

Day 2: 

 

Step 1 of 2
Please sign in first
You are on your way to create a site.

Log in