Clinical Legal Education within a Community Legal Centre Context
AbstractMany clinical legal education programs in Australia have links to, or are based in, community legal centres. This raises some questions about how well the role of a centre as a legal service provider ‘fits’ with its role as a legal education provider. This paper looks at the perceived conflicts, and argues that far from compromising its educative role, a clinic placed within a community legal centre can offer students unparalleled educative benefit. The author describes a clinical program at Murdoch University Law School offering migration advice and assistance to asylum seekers as a successful example of combining a clinic with a legal service. |