Spring 2004 - University of Kent

Alumni connections
and events
Alumni in Hong Kong
The Chancellor, Sir Crispin
Tickell, and Pamela Cross,
Director of the International
Office, met with nearly 60 Kent
alumni in Hong Kong in
December. Pictured: Esther Fong K99,
Dennis Ho D97 and Professor Chan
Yan Chong, a former research fellow in
Management Science at Kent.
Kent Law Clinic
Anniversary Dinner
The Kent Law Clinic recently
celebrated 30 years since the
foundation of a clinic in the Law
School and ten years of the
present Kent Law Clinic.
Originally established in 1973
and the first in the UK, the Law
Clinic is a free legal advice and
representation agency run by
staff and students, with local
volunteer solicitors and
barristers. It is the main vehicle
for clinical legal education in KLS,
enabling students to learn
through supervised participation
in conducting real cases, and to
provide a valuable service to
members of the public.
The present Law Clinic has been
in operation since 1993, and in
the last ten years Clinic students
have helped clients, through
litigation and negotiation, obtain
over £500,000. A good service
is also provided where no
compensation is recovered, and
in the many areas (eg security of
tenure, immigration, family
matters) where compensation is
not the issue. The Clinic also
assists local groups and
organisations (including a local
church, voluntary sector
agencies, community groups)
with constitutional, leasing and
organisational matters.
Pictured: David de Saxe (former
head of the Employment Tribunals
at Ashford, Simon Johnson (Head of
Stour Chambers, Canterbury),
Catherine Carpenter (Clinic Solicitor,
R93), John Pritchard (Solicitor, Vizards
Wyeth Solicitors, Medway, D91),
Lorna Collopoy (Clinic Solicitor, D88),
John Fitzpatrick (Director, Kent Law
Clinic).
Events coming up:
UKC Radio Reunion – 2 October
Contact Station Manager Ellie Cook on ec4@kent.ac.uk
Students’ Union Summer Ball
Alumni are welcome to join current students at the Summer Ball.
To find out more, contact Stephanie Bowen on S.M.Bowen@kent.ac.uk.
Careers Fair
This year on 4 March, over 60
graduates met up over lunch, and
then spent the afternoon talking
to students about their careers.
The campus was buzzing with the
last day of the Student’s Union
elections, but a good number of
students did visit the Fair to seek
advice and tips on ‘life after Kent’.
Cathedral Concert
The annual Colyer-Fergusson
Concert, this year featuring the
combined forces of the
University of Kent Music Society
Chorus and Symphony
Orchestra in Canterbury
Cathedral’s magnificent Nave,
took place on 13 March. The
programme was Elgar’s
extraordinary arrangement of
the ‘Overture’ to Handel’s second
‘Chandos Anthem’, followed by
the ‘Enigma Variations’, with its
overwhelming ‘Nimrod’
movement. The two-hundredstrong
University Chorus then
joined forces with the orchestra
and soloists to perform
Beethoven’s Mass in C. Director
of Music Susan Wanless
conducted the choir and
orchestra (made up of students,
staff and some alumni) and
outstanding soloists Catherine
Mikic, Susan Legg, Andrew
Mackenzie-Wicks and Colin
Campbell.
Duel personalities
Thanks to an idea from
Andrew Courtney K93,
who was, during his time
at Kent, the Fencing Club
Social Secretary, President
and Men’s Captain, alumni
fencers have, since March
1999, come together for
a weekend of informal
fencing with current
students and fencing
alumni.
Pictured: Neil Bromley K95, former Captain, with
current Fencing Captain, Sarah Scholtz.
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