2010 News

UNLC - nominated for Australasian Law Award

The Newcastle Law School would like to congratulate the University of Newcastle Legal Centre (UNLC) on becoming a finalist for Enhancement of the NSW Legal Profession in the Australasian Law Awards.

The UNLC was one of three finalists alongside Blake, Dawson and Waldron and Gilbert and Tobin for the award. The nomination was based on the Centre providing quality legal services, based on ethical practice, to members of the community who would not otherwise be able to afford them.

The nomination recognised the UNLC's long history of running significant public interest community legal cases, the most recent of which include acting for the family of Cornelia Rau in the Palmer Inquiry, and acting for six indigenous clients in the Administrative Decisions Tribunal on a discrimination claim. Supervised by Legal Centre solicitors, a number of students at the Legal Centre prepared a submission to the National Human Rights Consultation on the proposed Bill of Rights.

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