Australia
Non-Adversarial Legal Education
A key criticism of legal education made by a number of non-adversarial justice or comprehensive law approaches – including therapeutic jurisprudence, creative problem solving and holistic law – is its focus on the case method as the pre-eminent approach to legal problem solving. Typically these cases are the most adversarial – those that the parties and their lawyers have not been able to resolve without an adversarial trial and often an appeal or two.
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Humanizing Legal Education
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Law School/Legal Education
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Best Practices/Skills
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Lawyers
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Law Students Judge Hora Thinker in Residence
You can sign up to follow Judge Peggy Hora during her time as one of the Thinkers in Residence website at: Adelaide Thinkers in Residence - Peggy Hora. She'll be there Aug. 17-Sept. 25.
TJ in Commercial Areas of Law
A common question asked in relation to therapeutic jurisprudence is whether it has any application to commercial areas of the law such as corporate law and taxation. Therapeutic jurisprudence purports to apply to the whole range of the law, legal processes and legal actors in the diverse social contexts in which they operate. TJ sees them as potentially affecting the wellbeing of those who come into contact with them.
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Therapeutic Jurisprudence
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Corporate/Business Law
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Clients
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Interdisciplinary Professionals Australia: Crime Without Punishment?
Violent criminals should have the option of getting together with their victims for a chat under a "crime without punishment" plan.
The Brumby Government has received a recommendation that so-called "restorative justice" be used in serious criminal cases.
The current restorative justice system is available only for young people charged with non-violent offences.
Offenders and victims get together to talk about the crime and its effects, and it is claimed the program cuts reoffending.
West Australia Expands Drug Courts
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http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=77&ContentID=135562
Attorney-General Christian Porter said the Government might widen criteria which determines who can go before the drug court, which was resource intensive but an overwhelming success.
A 2006 review showed the court, established at the Perth Central Law Courts in December 2000, had cut reoffending 17 per cent compared with offenders dealt with in the prison system and 10.4 per cent for community orders.
Rethink Juvenile Justice Says Former Policeman
Unless the Northern Territory's juvenile detention centres can show they are giving teenagers a chance to learn, the Government should rethink their use, a former policeman says.
Real Justice Australia director, Terry O'Connell, believes restorative justice - a process that brings together the victims and offenders - would be more effective in reducing teenage crime in the Territory.
Mr O'Connell is holding a conference in Darwin for teachers and youth workers on his school-based restorative justice program.
Australia hosts Collaborative Law Conference
Friday 20th March 2009 | 7:41 AM
The first International Collaborative Law conference in the Southern Hemisphere.
With the support of Robert McClelland, Attorney-General for Australia & John Hatzistergos, Attorney-General for NSW,
At 6pm on 26 March Robert McClelland, Attorney-General for Australia will speak at the welcome reception at the Theatrette of Parliament House Sydney of the first International Collaborative Law conference in the Southern Hemisphere.