{"id":491,"date":"2018-10-17T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T08:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/?p=491"},"modified":"2019-08-22T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:28:51","slug":"kent-law-clinic-weekly-news-and-updates-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/kent-law-clinic-weekly-news-and-updates-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly news and updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Clinic meeting was largely dedicated to the democratic process of electing eight law students to Kent Law Clinic\u2019s Student Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Law students elect a new committee each year to represent the interests of all student members of the Law Clinic. The <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/the-student-committee\/\">Student Committee<\/a> meets regularly throughout the year, liaising closely with Clinic staff and reporting back to students directly at the weekly Clinic meetings (held each Tuesday at 2pm).<\/p>\n<p>Clinic Director Graham Tegg was delighted at the response to this year&#8217;s call for nominations to the Committee and was particularly impressed to see more first year law students than ever before putting themselves up for election. After hearing each candidate make a short statement, students attending the meeting cast their vote. The results were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chair: Emily Ham (Stage 3 Law LLB student)<\/li>\n<li>Vice Chair: Terrie Boinnet (Stage 2 Law LLB student)<\/li>\n<li>Committee members: Sophie Griffin (Stage 3 Law LLB student); Roxana Cioara (Stage 3 European Legal Studies student); Yara El-Ghor (Stage 1 Law LLB student); Alisha Dhume (Stage 2 Law LLB student); Rikke Sletten (Stage 2 International Legal Studies student); and Basel Bdair (Stage 1 Law LLB student)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Graham said: &#8216;The contributions made by all the nominees were fantastic &#8211; there will be plenty of things for all these students to do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Briefly, in other business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the course of the last week, there have been 45 new enquiries within the field of family law, immigration and asylum law, and employment law<\/li>\n<li>One particularly long court case that took place last week, involving EU law and the right to reside, may now go to a higher court<\/li>\n<li>Kent postgraduate legal research scholar Naomi Woods spoke to students about her initiative to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/news\/index.html?view=3245\">Karaoke Court<\/a> to Kent &#8211;\u00a0Karaoke Court is an alternative arbitration process and live performance work in which participants select, prepare and perform songs as a way of resolving their disputes. The Karaoke Court judge invites a &#8216;jury&#8217; comprised of audience members to decide who should win each case. The participants sign an arbitration contract which makes the jury&#8217;s decision legally binding. Student members interested in helping Naomi make it happen were encouraged to let her know<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s Clinic meeting was largely dedicated to the democratic process of electing eight law students to Kent Law Clinic\u2019s Student Committee. Law students elect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/kent-law-clinic-weekly-news-and-updates-4\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38005,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[214378,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kentlawclinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}