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Chris Simmonds, Solicitor Tutor
Focus GroupSocial Justice, Sustainability and Clinical Legal Education
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Outline
❖ 3 Exercises:
❖ Odd one out
❖ Diamond 9/16
❖ Open floor debate - statements
Background
❖ Social justice/distributive justice
❖ Sustainability
❖ Clinical legal education
Odd One Out
❖ Groups of 5/6
❖ Focus on issues that may need require legal advice/representation
❖ What is unique to each group?
❖ What is common to community groups & individuals/community groups & local businesses/local businesses & individuals?
❖ What is common to all 3?
Diamond 9/16
❖ Select the 9/16 issues that you consider to be most important
❖ Rank them according to precedence - please stick to the diamond layout
Open Floor Debate
❖ Planning law is a commercial issue and should be left to the experts.
❖ Business law is a threat to the social justice mission of clinical legal education.
❖ Clinics should have nothing to do with social justice - it should all be about the educational benefit to the students.
❖ Means testing has no place in Clinical Legal Education.