Indigenisation of Curricula: Current Teaching Practices in Law
This paper considers the skill of client interviewing, or client counselling, reinforced in many common law countries by competence statements and as a mandatory component of vocational legal education. Over-reliance on interviewing protocols in the classroom creates a risk that students will develo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Bond University
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Legal Education Review |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.53300/001c.6300 |
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| Summary: | This paper considers the skill of client interviewing, or client counselling, reinforced in many common law countries by competence statements and as a mandatory component of vocational legal education. Over-reliance on interviewing protocols in the classroom creates a risk that students will develop a rigid, rehearsed performance which does not effectively reflective the nuanced nature of legal practice, or encourage them to develop a personal practice. It is suggested that, as a significant microcosm of legal practice, interviewing should be treated as a threshold concept or capability. Literature around interviewing performances, including differentiation between novices and experts suggests that variation theory can be a useful means of helping novice students to understand the significance of the different variables in the client’s problem; to transcend this threshold and to supplement the interviewing protocol in developing towards a personal professional practice. |
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| ISSN: | 1033-2839 1839-3713 |