Faculty of Business and Law

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Ms Nicola Ross Lecturer  Law +61-2-492 15871 MC167 (Callaghan) Nicola.Ross@newcastle.edu.au

Qualifications: BSW (Hons) (UNSW), LLB (Hons) (Macq), Grad Dip Legal Practice

Other Details:

Admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of New South Wales .  Enrolled in PhD (Uni of Sydney).  Previously worked as a litigation solicitor (family law, criminal law).  Currently undertaking doctoral studies examining children’s legal representation and participation in the legal process.

Research Interests:

Children’s participation in the legal process, Legal representation of children, Family Law, Child protection law, Criminal Law and children.

Recent Publications:

Conference Papers

Nicola Ross, "Agency, Article 12 and Models of Legal Representation in Australia", Paper presented at the 4th World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights, Cape Town, South Africa, 20-23 March, 2005.

Articles

Nicola Ross, "Images of Children: Agency, Art 12 and models for legal representation", (2005) 19(2) Australian Journal of Family Law, 94.

Jenny Finlay-Jones and Nicola Ross, "Peer Mentoring for Law Students: Improving the First Year Advocacy Experience", (2006) 40(1) The Law Teacher: The International Journal for Legal Education, 23.

Book Chapters

Nicola Ross "Legal Representation of Children" in Geoff Monahan and Lisa Young (eds) Children and the Law in Australia, LexisNexis (2008).