University of Essex Law Clinic

Emilie Curinier is one of the Essex Law Clinic Firm Managers for 2024-25, while working with the Essex Law Clinic, she can see the positive impact it has on the community. As part of the management committee, the Firm Managers work alongside the Student Directors and academics.

Last week the Essex Law Clinic welcomed two great speakers to our Family Law Project meeting. Liz Pickford, CEO of schools-based charity Tendring Families First and James Evans, Head of UK Education for parenting App OurFamilyWizard. Liz, spoke about issues for children and families on parental separation and James gave an excellent demonstration to students of the OurFamilyWizard parenting app to help communication. Two great organisations also committed to helping those in difficult circumstances. #essexlawschool #essexlawclinic #lawstudent#familylaw OurFamilyWizard

Meet Sajeel Ahmed, who joined the Essex Law Clinic as a Bronze member and is now a Firm Manager for the 2024-25 academic year. By serving as one of four firm managers, students play an important role in the management of the Clinic. We wish all Clinic members good luck with their training in the coming weeks!

We had a fantastic turnout last week when we held a Sliver training session to prepare students for the year ahead. Thanks to everyone for coming along and taking part! Don't forget that applications for first and second year students to get involved with the Clinic close on the 21 October 2024, please apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8q5S56x

For 2024-25, Urszula Nitecka and Mackenzie Wilkinson-Rouse will be our joint Student Essex Law Clinic Directors. They'll be working with Liz Fisher-Frank, Essex Law Clinic Director and the team over the next year to represent the student voice of the clinic. Both of them can see what an impact the Essex Law Clinic has on the local community by providing free legal advice! 🤝⚖️

Yesterday, Essex Law Clinic Director Liz Fisher-Frank, alongside our new Student Directors MacKenzie and Urszula, told all new undergraduate Essex Law School students how they could get involved with working in the University of Essex Law Clinic. Applications for first and second year students to get involved with the Clinic are still open, please apply here: https://lnkd.in/e8q5S56x

Applications for Bronze membership are now open! If you are in your first or second year and would like to join the clinic, please complete the application form here: https://lnkd.in/eh9Ss8jm. Applications are due by Monday 21 October 2024 at 9am. If your application is successful, you will be notified by 28 October 2024 and there will be a compulsory induction held on Wednesday 30 October 2024 (time tbd). Please note that Essex Law Clinic activities take place in person on Wednesday afternoons during term time. If you have any questions about the Clinic, or experience any issues with the form, please contact elawclinic@essex.ac.uk

🚀 Exciting insights from the #IJCLE2024 conference! Lee Hansen, Liz Fisher-Frank (University of Essex Law Clinic) and Dr Liz Curran of Nottingham Law School reflect on how Giving Voice to Values (GVV) is transforming #LegalEducation by promoting ethical decision-making. Our #ELR Blog has the story: https://shorturl.at/CBTKg.

Our Summer Graduation was yesterday. Thanks to the amazing Graduation Team at the University for a seamless ceremony. Thanks also to Event Essex/ Essex Food for a lovely reception to celebrate our wonderful students! Some notable mentions: Amy Bradshaw, pictured with the Dean of Essex Law School, Amy (along with Raveen Duhra) was one half of the team who made it to the quarter finals of the Transnational Negotiation Competition. Ellie Reynolds pictured with the wonderful Rees Johnson, PhD. Ellie was the University of Essex Law Clinic Student Director for 2023-24. Double Prizewinner, Fern Ivy Field won the Palgrave Law Prize and the Essex Law School Prize for best performance in Capstone. Prizewinner and Student Deputy Clinic Director, Ethan Naish with the Dean, Ethan won the prize for the best performance in Jurisprudence. Double Prizewinner, Alex K Brückler, won the Essex Law School prize for best performance for a student on a joint honours degree and the Sweet and Maxwell prize for best overall performance by a Final Year LLB Student. Congratulations to Rebekah Hollingshead (not pictured) who won the Rob Wright Memorial Prize for best performing student in Tort Law. Luis Felipe Yanes, who is now a Legal Policy Development Officer for the Scottish Human Rights Commission and a PhD Graduate 👏🏻 Saskia Buckham was one of our brilliant Law stars who contributed to the Law School social media this year and you may spot her in some of our past posts! Lastly, we just wanted to wish all Graduates from the School and Essex Human Rights Centre the best, you're all amazing!

Lucy, Yinka and Liz are at today's Law Graduation ceremony. A huge congratulations and well done to all our wonderful Clinic students graduating today 👏 👏 👏