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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of abbreviations
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Law clinics: What, why and how?
  9. 2. Regulatory framework
  10. 2.1 Regulation of solicitors and university law clinics
  11. 2.2 Establishing a law clinic as an alternative business structure
  12. 2.3 Insurance
  13. 2.4 Client care and taking on new clients
  14. 2.5 Anti-money laundering
  15. 2.6 Signposting and referrals
  16. 2.7 Quality assurance: Advice standards
  17. 2.8 Quality assurance: Higher education and clinical legal education
  18. 2.9 Clinical legal education as solicitor qualifying work experience
  19. 2.10 International student participation in law clinics: immigration issues
  20. 2.11 Digital security
  21. 2.12 Document management case study: Intralinks VIA
  22. 2.13 Lawyering in a digital age: Reflections on starting up a virtual law clinic
  23. 2.14 Data security
  24. 2.15 Provision of immigration advice and services by university law clinics
  25. 2.16 Provision of debt advice by university law clinics
  26. 2.17 Legal professional privilege
  27. 2.18 Regulation of barristers and university law clinics
  28. 3. Assessment in clinics: Principles, practice and progress
  29. 4. Research on clinical legal education
  30. 5. Precedent documents and resources
  31. 5.1 Contracts and handbooks
  32. 5.1.2 External supervisor handbook: Option
  33. 5.1.3 External supervisor handbook: Option
  34. 5.1.4 Student agreement: Option
  35. 5.1.5 Student agreement: Option
  36. 5.1.6 Student agreement: Option
  37. 5.1.7 Client information agreement
  38. 5.1.8 Third party confidentiality agreement
  39. 5.2 Policies and procedures
  40. 5.2.1 Data protection and records retention policy
  41. 5.2.2 Privacy notice: Option
  42. 5.2.3 Privacy notice: Option
  43. 5.2.4 Client identification policy
  44. 5.2.5 Complaints procedure
  45. 5.2.6 Social media policy
  46. 5.2.7 Student disciplinary code
  47. 5.3 Checklists and practice documents
  48. 5.3.1 Appointment confirmation letter
  49. 5.3.2 Client appointment confirmation
  50. 5.3.3 Attendance form: Interview
  51. 5.3.4 Interview aide memoire
  52. 5.3.5 Client equality and diversity monitoring form: Option 1
  53. 5.3.6 Client equality and diversity monitoring form: Option 2
  54. 5.3.7 Case close-down checklist
  55. 5.4 Learning and teaching
  56. 5.4.1 Model module outline for a law clinic including assessment: Option
  57. 5.4.2 Model module outline for a law clinic including assessment: Option
  58. 5.4.3 Model module outline for a law clinic including assessment: Option
  59. 5.4.4 Model module outline for a Streetlaw module including assessment: Option
  60. 5.4.5 Learning diary
  61. 5.4.6 Student evaluation form: Option
  62. 5.4.7 Student evaluation form: Option
  63. 5.5 Other useful resources
  64. 5.5.1 Client feedback questionnaire: Option
  65. 5.5.2 Client feedback questionnaire: Option
  66. 5.5.3 Law School Clinic Advisory Board: Terms of reference
  67. 5.5.4 Legal Advice Centre: Annual report
  68. 5.5.5 Data audit
  69. 5.5.6 Digital and IT resource list
  70. 6. Glossary of clinical legal education networks 447
  71. 7. Postscript: ‘Things I wish I’d known before I started doing clinical legal education’
  72. 7.1 Professor John Fitzpatrick
  73. 7.2 Dr Richard Grimes
  74. 7.3 Dr Jane Krishnadas
  75. 7.4 Professor Donald Nicolson
  76. 7.5 Professor Julie Price
  77. Index

Part 6
Glossary of clinical legal education networks

Part 6.1
Glossary of clinical legal education networks

There are clinical legal education networks around the world that provide forums for clinicians to come together and share good practice, discuss new ideas and offer peer support. This Handbook would not have happened without such networks and we would encourage clinicians new and old to make use of these connections. The clinical community is a generous and welcoming one.

Details of many such networks and key organisations that work with and support them are set out below.1

Europe

Organisation

Description

Contact details

Clinical Legal Education Organisation (CLEO): UK

CLEO is a UK-based charitable organisation aimed at fostering, promoting and developing clinical legal education in all its forms, including education, training, collaboration and research. It frequently holds events and workshops for clinicians and offers a mentoring scheme.

CLEO offers individual membership and is free to join.

Email: info@cleo-uk.org

Website: http://www.cleo-uk.org/

European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE): Europe-wide

ENCLE is a European Network of people committed to achieving justice through education. It aims to bring together people from different countries, who exchange perspectives and work collaboratively from a variety of legal, educational and organisational settings in order to promote justice and increase the quality of law teaching through clinical legal education.

Offers individual and institutional/organisational membership and is free to join.

Email: encle.info@gmail.comWebsite: http://encle.org/

LawWorks (the Solicitors Pro Bono Group): England and Wales

LawWorks is a charity working in England and Wales to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal aid and cannot afford to pay, and with the not-for-profit organisations that support them. Its aim is to support lawyers in developing the knowledge and confidence to provide competent probono legal advice and to keep abreast of developments in the pro bono sector. Many university clinics register as part of the LawWorks network.

Website (which includes a contact form): www.lawworks.org.uk

Scottish University Law Clinic Network (SULCN)

The Scottish University Law Clinic Network works for the promotion of access to justice and to raise awareness of student law clinics and their activities.

Twitter: @SULCN

For enquiries contact Rebecca Samaras: rebecca.samaras@ed.ac.uk

Streetlaw UK and Ireland Best Practices: UK and the Republic of Ireland

An informal network that holds annual conferences dedicated to sharing best practice in the teaching and delivery of Streetlaw/public legal education. Its events are advertised via CLEO.

For enquiries contact Linden Thomas: l.thomas@bham.ac.uk

Worldwide

Organisation

Description

Contact details

Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE): Canada

ACCLE is a group of individuals and clinics who have come together to provide a forum for legal educators across Canada to share best practices, pedagogies and other information related to clinical legal education, and to encourage the promotion and improvement of clinical legal education in Canadian law schools. Individual and clinic membership is available for a small fee.

Email: info@accle.ca

Website: http://accle.ca/

Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA): USA

CLEA exists to advocate for clinical legal education as fundamental to the education of lawyers. Among other things, CLEA and its members seek to foster excellent teaching and scholarship by clinical educators, and to integrate clinical teaching and extend its methods into the legal education program of every law school. Offers full membership, associate membership and group membership options for a small fee.

Email the President: clea@cleaweb.org

Email about membership: membership@cleaweb.org

Website: https://www.cleaweb.org/

Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE): Worldwide

GAJE is a global alliance of persons committed to achieving justice through education. GAJE holds worldwide conferences and engages in other activities that are aimed at promoting the exchange of information and experience among persons involved in justice education around the world. Clinical education of law students is a key component of justice education, but GAJE also works to advance other forms of socially relevant legal education involving practising lawyers, judges, non-governmental organisations and the lay public.

Membership is free although there is an option to pay a voluntary fee.

Website (which includes a contact form): https://www.gaje.org/

International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (IJCLE): Worldwide

The International Journal of Clinical Legal Education is an international peer reviewed open access journal devoted to the innovative field of clinical legal education. The journal organises an annual conference which takes place in a different country each year.

Website: https://www.northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijcle

Network of University Legal Aid Institutions Nigeria

NULAI Nigeria is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-political organisation committed to promoting clinical legal education, legal education reform, legal aid and access to justice.

Offers individual and institutional membership for a small fee. Applications can be made via the website.

Website: www.nulai.org

South East Asia Clinical Legal Education Association (SEACLEA)

SEACLEA is a Southeast Asian Network of people and institutions committed to improving the quality of legal education and achieving justice in part through the use of clinical legal education. It aims to bring together people from different countries, who will exchange perspectives and work collaboratively from a variety of legal, educational and organisational settings in order to increase the quality of law teaching and improve justice through CLE.

Facebook: ‘South East Asia Clinical Legal Education Association’
Website: https://www.babseacle.org/southeast-asia-clinical-legal-education-association-seaclea/

Street Law Inc

Street Law Inc is a global, non-partisan, non-profit organisation with more than 40 years of experience developing classroom and community programs that educate young people about law and government. Street Law Inc works in the USA and around the globe.

Website: www.streetlaw.org

Street Law South Africa

Street Law South Africa deals with public legal education, human rights and democracy education programmes at South African universities and works extensively internationally.
The project provides preventative legal education to both formal and informal communities, promoting fundamental rights, freedoms, participation and democratic cultures.

Facebook: @StreetLawSouthAfrica

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1 Note that the organisations detailed here have a specific connection to, or focus on, clinical legal education and pro bono. Broader legal education networks and associations such as the Association of Law Teachers, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars and the Legal Education Research Network may also hold events and facilitate conference streams that will be of particular interest to clinicians.

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