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Collie.
Narration, Michael Cordell.
A four part series about the N.S.W. University Law School legal internship
programme for final year law students. It provides them with the opportunity to
work as legal clerks, for a 4-month term, at the Kingsford Legal Centre.
Features 10 of the 22 legal clerks, as they handle real cases with real clients,
from the community. Their main role is interviewing their clients and gathering
information relating to their clients' problems. They then refer the cases to
the Centre's supervising lawyers for further action. The Centre staff give the
advice and the clients make their choices. Features also the group as a whole at
regular discussion/review sessions, followed by talks by the centre's volunteer
lawyers on related topics, such as work justice, law and order; and their
clients' expectations. At the end of their internship, every student receives
feedback on their performance.
First released: [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Film and
Television Office and Hilton Cordell & Associates Pty. Ltd., c2004.
DVD. off-air.
ERC DVD.
340.023944 STRE.
INSIDE THE CIRCLE [VIDEORECORDING] / ASSOCIATE PRODUCER, MICHAEL DOYLE ;
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, BRUCE BELSHAM.
Off-air recording of the ABC-TV programme broadcast 10/10/05. Copied under Part
5A of the Copyright Act 1968.
Colour recording system: PAL ; Region all.
Copyright notice: Commonwealth of Australia. Copyright Regulations. 1969.
Warning.
Editor, Jessica Miller ; researchers, Anne Connolly, Linda Carroll, Sandra
Harvey.
Reporter, Jonathan Holmes.
Documents the proceedings of an Aboriginal 'circle court', in New South Wales.
This is a fully fledged court with a magistrate, a defence lawyer, a police
prosecutor, the accused and his victim. The sentence will be decided by four
elders from his own community. This circle sentencing is an innovative process
aimed at preventing crime and reducing the scandalous over-representation of
indigenous people in the courts and in jails. In NSW, indigenous people
represent just two per cent of the general population but 20 per cent of adult
male prison inmates, and even higher percentages of female and juvenile inmates,
are Aboriginal. In a normal court, a defendant who pleads guilty need not say a
word. He or she might not comprehend what is going on. The arguments and the
pleadings are the business of mostly white lawyers and white magistrates. Not so
with circle sentencing.
Includes media footage of the proceedings, during which the elders first shamed
and accused Robert Ardler, then heard him try to explain himself, listened to
his victim, and finally weighed up his sentence. Circle sentencing has been
running for two years in Dubbo, N.S.W., where re-offending rates for circle
"graduates" are way below the average. Other NSW centres are introducing circle
sentencing, too. Variations exist in some other states, though none which
devolves so much responsibility to Aboriginal elders. This could be the circuit-
breaker, providing a more effective deterrent to Aboriginal offenders than
prison, and eventually cuts the rates of indigenous imprisonment.
First released: [Sydney] : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, c2005. Original
released in series: Four corners.
DVD.
Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.
ERC DVD.
340.5294 INSI.
UN : KEEPING THE PEACE [VIDEORECORDING].
Off-air recording of SBS program Dateline broadcast 29 April 1995.
ERC VID.