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education in advocacy and trial practice is a real need within the legal profession,
according to Supreme Court judge Justice George Hampel, who next month will
join Monash's Law faculty.
Justice Hampel will leave the Supreme Court after 17 years to become a full-time professor of advocacy and trial practice at Monash.
He says he is making the transition to academic life because he believes there is a need to further develop education in advocacy.
"The legal profession should further aim towards setting minimum standards for people who practise as advocates," he said.
His role at Monash will include developing and teaching the undergraduate advocacy semester.
"I'm hoping to run moot programs as oral presentations within various subjects so students have a chance of articulating and debating issues, and, at the same time, understanding the ethical issues involved in advocacy," he said.
However, he said the most important part of his brief at Monash was to develop various postgraduate courses in advocacy and trial practice for campuses both within Australia and internationally.
"One of the reasons why I am attracted to Monash is that it is, as I see it, the most progressive university in its development of overseas courses and programs of various kinds," he said.
"I would like to see people in the legal profession with similar views to mine involved with the academic staff at Monash to develop these courses."
Justice Hampel also expressed interest in pursuing judicial training and exploring the area of general human rights issues associated with trial practice and the concepts of fair trials.
"I have had contact overseas with advocacy and judicial training and hope to pursue that on behalf of Monash, especially in this time of globalisation and sharing of knowledge in these areas," he said.
Justice Hampel was instrumental in setting up the bar readers' course and has been teaching advocacy since the early 1970s in Australia, England, Scotland, the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
He is the chairman of the Australian Advocacy Institute and a member of the Victorian Council of Legal Education.
Monash Law dean Professor Stephen Parker said he was delighted at the appointment of a judge of such experience and stature.
"He will add greatly to our strength in practical legal training. His international reputation will enable us to mount successful programs at Monash's overseas campuses and centres," he said.
The funny business of healingSelf-proclaimed clown Dr Patch Adams, the man who started "the first silly hospital in history", recently visited Monash Medical Centre. Dr Adams, who arrived to a room filled with bubbles and balloons, rejected the notion of keeping a professional distance and believed in making friends with his patients. In 1972, he started the Gesundheit Institute, which operated 24 hours a day out of his home. Close to 15,000 people have been through the facility, which never charged a cent for its services. The institute aims to integrate medicine with arts, crafts, agriculture, nature, education, recreation, social service and "lots of joy and laughter". As a clown who is a doctor (not the other way around), he says making health care fun is a priority. He has taken his clown persona to Kosovo refugee camps and to prisoners on death row in Trinidad. After years of avoiding the limelight, Dr Adams went public in a bid to raise funds to build his "dream hospital", a 40-bed communal home with an integrated approach based on humour. The publicity changed their lives as it eventually led to the box office hit Patch Adams, with Robyn Williams in the lead role - and donations for the project started coming in. Patch Adams pays close attention to his audience at Monash Medical Centre. |
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Universities should play a bigger role in Australian public life, according to Labor identity and Monash adjunct professor Barry Jones.
Speaking at a recent breakfast at the Clayton campus, Professor Jones encouraged universities to be more active in politics and public debate and respond more vigorously when attacked.
"Universities have to learn to bite back," he said. "Often they do not realise how central they are to Australian public life."
He believed the quality of all the things Australians used in everyday life such as health care, the legal system and transport, were dependent on the quality of research and activity at universities.
"Very few of us are more than one step back from universities," he said.
A new exhibition Decade: Celebrating 10 years of tapestry shows the exciting progress made in a craft once considered the domain of old ladies.
Running at the Faculty Gallery at Caulfield campus, Decade celebrates 10 years since Monash introduced formal studies of tapestry.
It features the work of 20 exhibitors, including curator and tapestry studio coordinator Ms Kate Derum and two distinguished tapestry artists and former Monash lecturers Ms Ann Newdigate and Ms Tass Mavrogordato, now based in Canada and the UK respectively.
Ms Derum said part of the exhibition's purpose was to trace what graduates had achieved since leaving Monash.
"These artists have all established studios and exhibited their work, some have received grants, some have taught and a few have been involved in community tapestry projects," she said.
She said Monash's "revolutionary" decision to move into tapestry had resulted in a unique feature of the Department of Fine Art.
Decade will be on show until 2 September. For further information, contact extn 32882.
A crowd turns out for the exhibition opening on 10 August.
Items of interest from Council, 14 August 2000Council to meet at GippslandCouncil agreed to hold its next meeting at the Gippsland campus (2 October). The program will include opportunities to meet with members of the community and to tour the campus. Intellectual propertyCouncil adopted three major policy documents Intellectual Property Framework, University Practice and Paid Outside Work Policy and Commercialisation Guidelines. Council noted that these policies had been reviewed by the Committee of Deans, the Academic Board and Resources and Finance Committee and marked an important step forward in the handling of intellectual property matters within the university. Support servicesCouncil received advice from the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president (Resources) that in reviewing the functioning of support services, it was apparent that while there were planning documents relating to research, learning and teaching and global development underpinning Leading the Way: Monash 2020, there was no equivalent support services plan. Development of such a plan was now well under way with a strategic planning workshop having been held and a series of staff forums conducted during August. These forums provide staff with an opportunity to consider and contribute to the support services plan, which would be brought to the Vice-Chancellor's Group for approval. Ms Crook advised that information about the support services structure was available on the web and accessible to both students and staff. Council received a report from the deputy chancellor, Mr Paul Ramler AM, on progress to date with reorganisation of the student service organisations. Mr Ramler advised that during the past six months, discussions had been held with all stakeholders with a view to creating a structure to provide a seamless level of service across all campuses both locally and overseas. Mr Ramler advised that in discussion about this matter, the student representatives from all campuses had shown themselves to be flexible, forward thinking and very constructive in their contributions. Future Directions reportThe dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Homer Le Grand presented a report on Future Directions of the Faculty of Arts. Council thanked Professor Le Grand for this presentation, which outlined the contribution of the faculty to the university community and its plan for future activities. Special thanks were also conveyed to Professor Le Grand for his contribution to the university as interim dean of the Faculty of Science. Summer subjects fees discountCouncil discussed the background to the proposal of the Resources and Finance Committee to provide, as a transitional arrangement, a 25 per cent discount on the fees for subjects offered during the 2000/2001 'summer semester' and approved the proposal and added a number of other measures designed to ease the transition to the new arrangements. New structure for the Faculty of MedicineCouncil approved a new structure for the Faculty of Medicine, which included the renaming of the faculty as the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. The faculty would be restructured into six schools with a seventh joint school in association with the Faculty of Science. Meeting dates and venues for Council in 2001 Council endorsed meetings in 2001 as follows:
Agendas and minutes for meetings of Council can be accessed at www.adm.monash.edu.au/unisec/com/cn/cnindf.htm. Queries should be directed to Mr Phillip Siggins on extn 52010 or email Phillip.Siggins@adm.monash.edu.au |
Several divisional name changes have been approved following the Support Services restructure.
These are:
The alterations are intended to reflect more accurately the nature of the divisional responsibilities.
Vacation care for children aged five to 12 years will be available from 18 to 29 September at the Clayton campus.
The program has excellent on-campus facilities and activities, including rollerblading, cooking, Olympic Games, art and craft, pottery, science and much more.
Cost per day is $25 (less for parents who qualify for child-care assistance). For inquiries or to enrol, contact Family Advisory Services on extn 53156.
From frequent flyer points, the Monash University Centre London has been able to offer two air fares as travelling fellowships to King's College staff for them to visit Monash University in Australia.
Due to the very strong field of applicants, the principal of King's, Professor Arthur Lucas, funded a third fellowship and the Monash Centre added a fourth.
The successful applicants, who will be based at Monash in Australia for at least a month, are:
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