 So, Kia ora, congratulations and welcome to Part 2 Orientation. So I'm Jemima, one of the law advisors at the Student Center, so I'll be emceeing your welcome. So just an overview of today's program, we'll begin with a welcome from the Dean of Law Andrew Stockley, followed by the Structure of Alibi Part 2 by Professor Warren Swain. We will then hear from the course directors of your Part 2 courses. This will then be followed by study techniques and tutorials by Professor Warren Swain. We will then have your introductory lecture for Law 298 by Stephanie Carr. We will then hear from Quarter Higgins, our careers advisor, then we'll hear from Kylie Ryan from University Health and Counseling on Well-Being. Julia told me we'll then present on a safe, inclusive and supportive law school, as well as Hannah Wilberg. And then we'll have an introduction to Student Societies, followed by your barbecue. So it's my pleasure to introduce our first speaker, the Dean of Law, Professor Andrew Stockley. On behalf of all the academic staff at the Law School, can I just say congratulations because you'll know from everything that you had to go through last year that only a minority of students who do first-year law get through into second-year law. And so I know there's a lot of strain, there's a lot of work that you've had to do, and so very well done on being here. You'll find, unfortunately, that it doesn't get easier once you do get into second-year. So second-year law is also quite challenging. One of the reasons is in first-year law, of course, you learn about how to read cases, how to read statutes. And then in second-year law, if you've already got the casebooks, you would have seen there's a heck of a lot of cases and some of them are quite long. And so what you need to do, because law is all about the development of the law, the way in which Parliament, the way in which the courts develop our law, and to be effective lawyers, or to be effectively trained in the law, you need to actually be able to use that material and to work out what the law is from it. So therefore, it'll be very important during the course of the year. There'll be a heck of a lot of reading, but there'll also be coming to terms with, I think, a whole lot of the key concepts as to what the law is about. I think conceptual thinking that takes place at second year in my own subject in public law, all sorts of concepts like the rule of law, the separation of powers, and in the United States at the moment, there's all sorts of questions about the rule of law and the separation of powers, but then how does that apply in our own jurisdiction? The legal and constitutional place of the Treaty of Waitangi, all of these are really big questions you'll be looking at in public law. In torts, concepts include the duty of care, what is causation, in criminal law, what is the difference between strict or absolute liability offences. In contract law, what exactly is an offer and acceptance of a contract, what is consideration? So there's a whole lot of conceptual thinking that needs to take place. There's also a whole lot of practical dimensions in second year law as well. I've already mentioned the fact that you're learning how to derive the law yourself from the materials, from the writings of judges, scholars, and the statutes of parliament, but there is, we have instituted about two years ago, I think, a course on legal writing, research, and communication, and that's because no matter what you learn about the law, what you're going to need to do when you go out and do all sorts of different careers is to be able to apply it, to be able to communicate it, to be able to write about it, and so what you'll find in that course is there's a whole lot of practical hands-on exercises where you draft, you know, client memorandums, or if you draft a statement of claim for the court, so there's a whole, and you take part in a negotiation exercise. So it's again, how do you actually use what you've learned and be able, ultimately, to talk about the law with clients or to judges or with other lawyers? So all in all, I suppose what I'm saying is there's quite a lot of continued hard work and application that is needed. And so, when I look at students who succeed from second year onwards, and those who sometimes don't, I mean, I think it's fairly obvious the sorts of things that will be important, but I'll just say them very briefly. The first one is turning up to your classes, your tutorials, and your lectures, because in the end of the day, if you develop those good habits, and by the look of some of the spare bags of whatever's inside those Auckland Law School bags, a few people may have not developed that good habit already, might have overslept this morning after orientation events the night before, I don't know. But whatever the case, actually turning up to your classes, hearing what the people who are experts in the field and who are going to be setting your examinations actually have to say about the law, is an incredibly good habit, because ultimately, if you don't turn up in court when your client is due to appear, your client loses the cases. If you don't turn up when there's a meeting between two companies and you're representing one of the companies, you're never employed again. So it's very useful to get into that sort of habit straight off, and it's amazing that some people don't. When you go to your lectures, you will see some empty seats, but those are the people who won't be on the other side when you go into legal practice ultimately. But preparing for the class is also absolutely important. So I would say, when you do get readings, when you are told that a certain case or statute will be looked at, read it in advance, because if you're sitting there making notes and you have no idea actually what the lecture is talking about, they can't always go at the level of simplicity that means you haven't bothered to do what is necessary, because at the end of the day, you have a whole lot of hours every week that aren't taken up by the classes, so get in that habit of reading the materials in advance so you understand what's been talked about, because that actually will make it a lot simpler and a lot clearer. And again, that's, again, a useful habit for employment later on. Because ultimately, this is an opportunity you have. That opportunity won't come again, because if you don't get through part two law, if you crash and burn, there's all sorts of consequences to that, to being able to continue to do law or not. But equally, if your knowledge is fuzzy, if it's blurred or it's unclear, because you didn't put the work in, that equally is not going to be very good for your developing enthusiasm for the law or an ability to practice it well. But anyway, you have got through the biggest hurdle this law school can offer, so I suppose the message in what I was just saying is, don't stuff it up now. You will find that there's a whole wealth of opportunities here available to you. You have joined or you are now part of a law school that is unconditionally, unashamedly, the best in this country. We are ranked among the top 30 law schools in the world in the 2018 rankings. And given that there are some 5,000 law schools around the world, I think that's a really incredible tribute to the calibre of our academic staff and to the calibre of our students and what they go on to achieve. We have the highest entry standards in New Zealand, as you'll be aware of, but that also means you'll have a really good cohort with you and you should be able to proceed at a faster and better place than in some other places, and employers will prize that. Here you have the largest range of undergraduate electives, so when you get through the stage two compulsions, you'll find there's a whole raft about 50 electives each year that you have to choose from. There will be the opportunity later in your degree to go on a student exchange to do a semester of law at another top law school around the world, and about one-fifth of our final year cohort do that, so really do seriously consider that, because I think that can be transformative, open people's eyes to how law is practiced elsewhere, and there's all sorts of internship opportunities as well in international courts and other opportunities to take advantage of that, talk to the student advisers, you know, if finance is an issue, there's all sorts of ways to try and make those sort of things possible to people who would like to take part. There are of course a whole raft of clubs and societies that you can join here. The Auckland University Law Student Society, our DSA will be coming and speaking to you later about all of the academic workshops, all of the social, all of the sporting sort of events that they will be putting on, but again I know that they have, you know, a whole lot of things about careers, workshops, academic programs, and again just that getting to meet everyone else, because in the end you're in a cohort of 380 other students, and the more people that you get to talk to in lectures, in tutorials, and in the sort of social and other events that are organised, I think, you know, then you find people you can talk to, you can ask questions about the courses that you're doing, and that will also make things quite a lot easier going on. We have a wonderful competition program, so again do think of taking part in some of those practical schools activities that are available, from witness examination, to client interviewing, to mooting, and mooting of course is mock advocacy, mock as if you're appearing in a lawyer in a court, and I think when I look at it, we've got, you know, by far the most extensive mooting program of any of the law schools in this country, we send students who do very well to a variety of international competitions, and again I think it says something for the way in which people really can develop their advocacy schools here. The most prestigious mooting competition in the world is the Jessup International law mooting competition, and last year two Auckland University students were ranked the best speaker in the world, and the third best speaker of the world, which really are truly exceptional achievements, so hopefully if some of you get involved, that's the benchmark that you have to aspire to. And perhaps finally, just on clubs and societies, again I'm aware there's a whole raft of other clubs and societies. Turakoturi, our Pacific Islands law students association, I know provide very close support of communities for our Maori and Pacific students, and so that's really important, you know, to become involved in that and to become involved in the work that those societies do. Our Rainbow Law Society, I know again is a close and supportive environment for our LGBTQ students. We have the Auckland University Law Review is a law review, a published law review that is run entirely by students, edited by students and entirely publishing student work, and it's looked at by the judges, it's looked at by members of the profession, so again, that's something you can become involved with. We do have another law review, which some of you may have attended last year, which I think is singing, dancing, caricatures and the like, but again, that's been very successful over the years. Some of the videos they have produced have been seen by millions of people worldwide when they've sort of parodied rap songs and the like, and I think that's probably a greater sort of, I don't know what you call it, exposure to a greater sort of uptake rate than many of the articles published by academics, if you can reach millions of people through those sorts of videos, but again, there's a lot of fun and enjoyment to be had. And perhaps the last society I've mentioned is the Equal Justice Project, which again, a lot of students get involved with and do really good work helping out in community law centres, looking at giving legal advice to charitable organisations that can't afford the cost of lawyers, and again, looking at how can the most vulnerable members of our society be assisted, and how can law students here assist in providing legal advice to people who cannot afford it. We of course also have a raft of societies for international students and all sorts of other areas. So what I'm saying at the end is work hard, get involved, take advantage of all of the opportunities that you are here, because certainly don't glide on the surface. There is no excuse for mediocrity because you have an incredible opportunity, having got through into part two law. And if you make a real commitment, if you open your minds, I think you'll find law can transform your thinking. Law permeates all areas of society. We have banking lawyers, takeovers lawyers, we have sports lawyers, we have entertainment lawyers, we have lawyers who deal with problems in the health system because every area of legal activity in society, if there's an issue, if there's a problem, if someone's not doing what they should, it is the law that can be brought into redress it. When there are major issues of inequity and social injustice, it's the law that can be brought in to redress it. So just remember that a law degree does enable you to step out and to take on challenges in any particular area. And that probably is why you'll find about half of our law students go directly into legal work, and about half of our law students go into all sorts of other careers. And that's something, in fact, we're very proud about because people from this law school are leaders in all areas of society. Yes, some end up judges, three of the five judges on the Supreme Court including the Chief Justice, our Auckland Law School graduates. And the Chief Justice, I think, is coming to speak here at the law school in a few weeks' time. So look out for the notice on that, take advantage of going to hear her and to question her, because we're hoping to get a number of judges in to talk about their careers and about what they see as important in the law during the course of this year. And we have lawyers in the major law firms, but we also have people who have found that learning about the law, learning those skills of analysis, of reasoning, of writing can be incredibly important for them in all sorts of areas. So we have people who are business leaders, the Chief Executive of the Virgin Group, who works, who's Richard Branson's number two person, the Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, our graduates, people who head local hospital boards, who head transport authorities, are our graduates. If you look at Parliament, I think of the National Party leadership contenders and there seem to be even more of them every day, but at least two of them are our graduates. From the Deputy Prime Minister to other members of Cabinet, they are our graduates. When I looked at the new MPs elected to Parliament last year, 15% of the new MPs were graduates of this law school, and across Parliament as a whole one in ten members of Parliament as a graduate of this law school. Now in some ways you do worry, why is it that the behaviour in Parliament is not better? Why is it some of the results aren't what we would achieve if we're stocking one in ten? But I think it does show that there are people who want to do things, who have used a law degree from this place and have gone on to try and do things in society generally. So I mean those who aren't concerned, I suppose with having as immediate an impact on society or earning lots of money, of course there is the possibility of an academic career. So we have of course the possibility of becoming a professor, an academic in the law school. So there's all sorts of ways in which you can use the law. But anyway, well done, take up the challenge, I trust that you enjoy this year and you enjoy the rest of the day. And on behalf of my colleagues, well done, I'm getting into second year law. Can I introduce Professor Warren Swain to speak on the part two structure. Welcome to you all. My name's Professor Warren Swain. I'm the Associate Dean, Academic Teaching and Learning, which makes me responsible for all our undergraduate teaching and assessment. Those of you who are studying contract will have the unfortunate and dubious pleasure of me at 8am in the morning. Sadly, my office did not allow me to pull rank and move the lecture slot to a more civilised time. But there we are. I will begin, as the Dean did, by congratulating you on reaching part two. As you know, the demand for places vastly outstrips the supply. The consequences there of having a high entry standard are both good and bad in the sense that they give rise to a deal of anxiety. But there are positive aspects of this too. Notably, the advantages that it gives you in terms of your employment prospects. So to all of you who've worked very hard to get to this point, I would take this opportunity to congratulate you. So where do we go from here? I'm going to say something about the degree structure very briefly. But in your bags, you ought to have this document. The Auckland Law School handbook. Perhaps we could turn to that. And you'll see if you turn to page 12 of that handbook that there is a diagram on the structure of the LLB. You'll note that as a professional degree, it's structured rather differently to the general bachelor's degree, such as the BA, the BECON, the BSC, et cetera. And that's because there are certain courses that you need to take in order to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Council for Legal Education. The law degree consists of a mixture of compulsory and elective courses. The compulsory courses are in blue and the elective courses are in red on the diagram. You'll see that part two consists entirely of compulsory courses, so legal research and writing and other communication, which 10 points is the first one you must take, whatever else you are doing. So you need to enrol in Law 298. Then you'll note that there are criminal public talks and contract each way at 30 points. And then as we move to part three, there's a mixture of compulsory and elective courses. And part four, apart from a means of checking that you've done enough writing and participated in moots and so on in Law 498, part four consists entirely of elective courses. As for the elective courses, you don't need to take a specific number of them. The elective courses come in three sizes, large, medium and small, or 20, 15 and 10. What matters here is the number of points rather than the number of electives. And part four consists only of elective courses, so each year there are around 50 to choose from. Some of which are in the summer school, typically four or five. Others are in the first and second semester. As the dean noted, it's also possible for students to go on exchange to universities overseas and around, as he noted, a fifth do so. There are specific exchange arrangements with other law schools. And there are the general university exchange agreements that the University of Auckland participates in. There are actually in all around 100 possibilities there available to you. And you are able to get credit from those courses in other jurisdictions for your LLB back in Auckland. In respect of the co-joint degree students, which is almost all of you, the structure is set out for you in the document on, sorry, in the Hamburg on page 14. You'll note though that it says a sample co-joint degree structure in other words, a typical co-joint degree structure. So while some students beginning part two, as most of you are, take criminal and public alongside legal writing and communications, it's not necessary for you to do so. And some of you won't do so. As long as you're doing legal research, writing and communication, and at least one other course, then your enrollment is entirely valid. And there's no need to worry that you don't follow the exact arrangement in this diagram. If you're unsure about enrollments or what you need to do in relation to enrollments, then you should seek the advice of the student centre. They will be very happy to assist you in questions relating to the structure of your degree. There is though one myth I'd like to dispel, and that's this, you are not required to complete all of part two before taking courses that fall under part three. But a word of warning here, that many of the part three courses have prerequisites. So if a course has a prerequisite, that means that you must have completed an earlier course before you are able to enroll. Pre-requisites are necessary because courses at part three and four build on existing knowledge before you really can get a grip of that course. Note though that there are different prerequisites for different courses, and you should check this very carefully. It is extremely unlikely, except in the most exceptional circumstance, that I will waive the prerequisite requirement. That, as I say, is for the very simple reason that those later courses build on earlier knowledge, and if I waive the requirement, you won't have the requisite knowledge to undertake the later course. Now last year we went through all those courses very carefully in discussion with the course directors to ensure that all of those courses had carefully thought out prerequisites. So just as you go into the degree further down the line, just make sure that you check that carefully. It's not an immediate concern for you now because you're in part two, but just at the beginning of part two, but just make sure that when the time comes, you check that quite carefully. The other thing I'd just like to briefly mention as part of the degree structure, and for something now that seems long in the future, is the Honours Degree Program. The Honours Degree Program is different to the Honours Degree Program in other faculties in that it's shorter, it has fewer credits. However, it still stands as an Honours Degree. Admission to the Honours Program is on the basis of your grades in earlier courses, and admission is determined by a B plus average on your law courses. As I say, that's something to bear in mind for now, but the Honours course is taught by a seminar and then there is a 15,000 word research dissertation. I'd just like to finish by saying a few points about housekeeping, at least. Housekeeping being a euphemism for faculty and university regulations. At this point, people's eyes usually glaze over. I have to say I find regulatory matters highly fascinating, and indeed, I spend most of my spare time on university committees dealing with such matters. However, for your purposes, we've gone into some trouble, I've gone to some trouble, setting out the regulations as they apply to you within the pages of the handbook, which I should add is also available to the website online, if that's easier. Though, quite why anyone wouldn't want this by their bed, I'm not quite sure. And the important, at least smells nice, as all new publications do. The important bit for your purposes begins at page 30, academic information for students. I'd just here highlight a few of the key ones, simply because I really, really, really want to avoid any of you falling foul of these regulations. The first is in relation to penalties. Penalties are applied for the late submission of work and for work that is over the word limit. Note for the word limit purposes that footnotes count for word limit, so there's a little box on a word document to include the footnotes in the word count. Please tick it. The second thing I'd like to highlight are extensions. I very well appreciate more than most that there are a whole variety of reasons why students might not be able to submit their work on time. A whole variety of very good reasons why students may not be able to submit their work on time. If you are unable to submit your work on time, you ought to go to the Student Centre and meet with a student advisor. The student advisors are the ones who deal with extensions, not the course directors, the course lecturers or the tutors. The course directors, however, do have an extremely important role in your education in part two. It is the course directors who should be your first port of call with queries or questions relating to the particular course over which they are, the course director. I'm very pleased at this point to introduce the course directors from part two. I am going to be standing in for the course director of part two contract. I am not Professor Dawson. And I'll begin, we'll begin with criminal law and Professor Ptolemy. Thank you. Kia ora kato katoa. Ko Julia Ptolemy Takulunua. I'm the course director for criminal law. And I'm here. I'm firstly going to add my congratulations to getting into law school. You guys are very privileged. I'm always of the view that privilege comes with responsibility. And you're in for an amazing ride. What I'm going to do today in the brief time that I have to talk to you about criminal law is firstly make a little bit of a case for the relevance of criminal law. I don't have to. The council for legal education has said you have to study it anyway. But I know my colleagues and they're all going to talk about how their course is the most best and amazing course in part two. So I'll start by doing that for criminal law. And then I'll just say, make a few comments about how the course is going to be taught this year. So we do know that one fifth of you that go into legal practice are going to practice criminal law. If you don't go into criminal practice, you go into government policy work and the areas criminal law is also really relevant. But even if you don't, say you go into company law or tax law, increasingly the criminal law is used to back up and reinforce other regulatory regimes. So it's still good to know about. I'm going to slightly digress now and read a letter from one of our alumni, which I received when I was editor for Eden Crescent, which is our alumni magazine goes out to all. It'll follow you around the world once you graduate from Auckland. And when I was editing it, every year when there's a particularly good edition, I'd get letters congratulating me on the edition from alumni. So this is one of them. Written in December 2012, Dear Julia, I write to compliment you on the 2012 edition of Eden Crescent. And then the author goes on to say, which articles he particularly enjoyed, thank you Julia and editorial support team, much appreciated. Unfortunately for me, I am currently in custody in Mt Eden, awaiting trial on a raft of charges involving alleged financial malpractices. And then he goes on to sort of talk about the fact that he's been denied bail and his trial's not occurring till 2014, end of 2014. War now and I now contemplate a guilty plea. Enough of that, I would if convenient possible have back editions of Eden Crescent. The poor city of reading material here is just fact. So my point in this is that not only might criminal law be professionally relevant to you, you never know when at some point it might be a personal relevance to you. There's something that I always do and it's always interesting to me. I'm going to segue now into a little exercise. It might take a little bit of guts, but I'm just going to ask those of you who have ever committed a criminal offence in your lives to put your hands up. Well, we have some very honest human beings. We also have a room full of highly unusual and weird human beings. Basically, if you haven't put your hand up, you've never done one of the following things. You've never smoked marijuana, you've never taken ecstasy or one of the designer party drives, gone to a dance party, you've never committed theft. That means you've never taken something without someone's permission. Even if you're hoping you won't damage it and you plan to return it, you've never assaulted someone that has contacted their body on purpose without their consent or threatened to do so. You've never used indecent or offensive words in a public place. In other words, sworn in a public place to hear you. You've never said words to someone in a public place intending to insult or offend them. You've never urinated in a public place. I'm pretty confident 50% of the room has been 60%. Urinated in a public place, not a public toilet, knowing that someone could possibly observe you. You've never attempted to bring into hatred or contempt or excite disaffection against her Majesty or the Government of New Zealand. You've never attempted to do any of those things. I think this little exercise is interesting because if we're honest, basically if someone hasn't put their hand up, they're actually weird. Seriously unusual to get to your early 20s and not having performed one of these actions. The exercise is interesting because it tells us what criminologists started discovering in the 70s, which is that criminal offending is normal in the population. It's a huge body of what we call the dark figure of crime, which is criminal offending that is never charged and never ends up in the criminal justice system. So basically most of us have had lives that have insulated us from being charged or convicted, being processed through the criminal justice system, even though we've breached the criminal law often multiple times in our lives. That's an interesting thought to take into the study of criminal law, to think about why that is. The alumni who sent me the letter about Eden Crescent, those insulating factors had ceased to operate in his particular life. So actually the study of criminal law is immediately and personally relevant to all of us, because in a sense we've all committed criminal offences, we just haven't had the label criminal attached to us. So turning now to say a few words about criminal law, we're going to teach it in three streams this year. So class sizes will not be too large. We have a fantastic teaching team. Obviously I'm course director. We also have Dr Fleur Te Aho teaching who taught it last year. Dr Kate Duhlin who's a highly experienced teacher in criminal law that we've just secured from the University of Birmingham and Dr Anna Hood. And this is a team of teachers that has a huge interest in restorative justice, alternatives to incarceration and in the case of Dr Fleur Te Aho Māori approaches to justice and Indigenous human rights. So what we do in this course is we teach basic criminal principles, how you analyse the criminal offence and understand its legal requirements. We cover a selection of the most serious offences and defences. We cover different ways in which you can be liable and we deal with sentencing law. So we have lectures that you must attend in three streams. You have to stay in the lecture that you're assigned to. And we teach sentencing law in the tutorial program and we've revived something we were doing at some point with a great deal of success and that is the sentencing mode in tutorials. So in the tutorial program you will learn basic sentencing principles, you will then produce a written sentencing or oral sentencing submission in front of a judge and the final part of the tutorial program will be exam preparation answering factual problems. So I look forward very much to seeing you next week. So now I'd like to introduce Professor Janet McLean to speak on public law. Tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa called Janet McLean, tēnā. It's my great pleasure to welcome you and add my words of welcome to those that you've already heard. To law school, I'm not so interested in criminal law though we talk a bit about criminal law because it's a branch of public law so we like to bring everyone into our realm if you like. I'm interested in power. That's what I'm interested in possibly because I don't feel like I have that much. I'm interested in who has the power, what kind of power it is, how it's defined by the law and how you hold power to account. And thinking about where you might end up, people I went to law school, who I was sitting next to on a day like today, one of my friends from those first weeks of law school is now a court of appeal judge. But another of those friends who I went to law school with is now the Minister of Justice. Now between those two who has more power? What sort of power do they have? How do they exercise it? And who gets to hold them to account? That's what we're interested in in public law. And that's the way that we've structured the teaching for this year. In the first half of the year we look at the different institutions of New Zealand government. We look at the legislature. We look at the judiciary. What happens when a judge goes bad? How do you hold a bad judge to account? We look at the executive power, executive authority. And it's fair to say that people don't really go for public in the first semester. I know, because I taught in the second semester last year and people said you're so good, it's better than the first semester. Well this year I'm teaching the first semester. So that's my challenge, right? I'm going to make the first semester more interesting. The reason why the second semester is more interesting is that the second semester you get to hold them to account, right? So in the second semester we're looking at the Bill of Rights, we're looking at judicial review, and we're looking at the Treaty of Waitangi. So the second semester gets more concrete. It's starting to show you the doctrines that confine and force politicians to justify their power. The first half of the semester is more setting up the stepping stones, the structures that you need in order to understand what's coming. What are the sources of legal authority that governments exercise? How are they defined and how do they fit together? How much power does the court have in a system which has no written constitution and what on earth does that mean? So that's what we're going to be talking about and we have a great team in public law as well. Public is going to be taught in two streams and our team is me. I start off the year for the first six or seven weeks and I'll be talking about the legislature and introducing you to the sources of law. And then you'll have Dr Anru Erwiti who will teach you about the executive, executive sources of power and then Jonathan will talk about the judges and the Bill of Rights. He gets the sexy teaching this year but that's right we'll try and get it back from him next year and then Dr Edward Willis will talk to you about judicial review something you probably never heard of it's about holding executive power to account and has very broad applications and a whole lot of different spaces. And then finally we'll have a section on the Treaty of Waitangi at the end and the reason we do that a lot of people find that mystifying we'll talk a little bit about the Treaty at the beginning of the year but we'll spend a lot more time on the Treaty at the end of the year is because Treaty jurisprudence brings in international law judicial review, the Bill of Rights Maori customary law English common law rules about customary law the declaration of the rights of Indigenous peoples so we think that you're not equipped to talk about the Treaty of Waitangi and its fullness until you've got through the whole of the year so that's why we do it that way so I'm looking forward to seeing you on Monday if you look on Canvas you'll find my course outlines for the first seven weeks you'll find PowerPoints for the first week and I expect that you'll have had a look at the case book as well so look forward to seeing you then, bye so I'd like to now introduce Nikki Chamberlain who will speak on Law of Talks Hello everyone my name is Nikki Chamberlain and to start off no I am not from New Zealand originally I was South and not South Island South of the United States and no I did not vote for Trump so all I can say about that is I'm sorry and let's move on I have the privilege to talk to you today about the Law of Talks Professor Jo Manning is the course director for Talks unfortunately she could not make today and wanted me to convey her apologies so I am here in her place I am one of the lecturers there's four lecturers in the Talks class we each take six weeks of lecturing so that's a quarter of the class to tell you a little bit about Talks as a subject well what we're interested in is money show me the money and the reason we're interested in money is because a tort is a wrongful act by someone leading to civil liability so a wrongful act by someone leading to civil liability what I mean by that well for example in criminal law if you punch somebody the crown can essentially bring a prosecution for assault that doesn't get you very far if you are on the receiving end of the punch so what can you do well you can bring private proceedings a private prosecution for civil liability in tort for the tort of battery yes it has a different name it is confusing you will learn lots about this in tort battery so that's an example of what a tort is you'll start off with marcus roberts if you're taking tort this year marcus is great he's going to be talking about accident compensation scheme ACC essentially why is it that new zealand has far more litigation sorry far less litigation than the united states reason being is here what is personal injury by accident that's a whole bunch of fun what is an accident what is personal injury we'll be looking at all of that sort of thing marcus will be talking about battery, assault, false imprisonment trespass to land etc I will then swoop in for the second half of the first semester we will start by trespass to goods I will make that as exciting as possible I even throw in some emcee hammer can't touch this in there you will find out why then we will talk about defamation, privacy which are all very fun topics we have cases relating to katharine zeta-jones, michael douglas Naomi cambell the cool thing about topics such as defamation but in particular privacy is that normally if it's getting to a litigation stage obviously there has been some sort of public disclosure of a private fact that they don't want out in the open guess what it's out in the open and we get to read about it so that's all sorts of fun second semester is negligence so we've got basic negligence the first six weeks so we have professor joe manning and then associate professor hannah wilberg who will be talking about advanced negligence negligence essentially comes down to the intentionality so when you can sue somebody but the intentionality is lacking for example somebody does something and it harms you they don't mean to do it but they were negligent when can they have liability when can you sue so that's a brief summary of what we're going to cover in the law of torts the mechanics of it essentially taught three times a week monday, wednesday, friday we were able to secure lecturing from 11 to 12 and 3 to 4 i don't know how we did that professor swain somehow picked the short straw but i will be there a box of birds to see you at 11 a.m course book available i think canvass notification went around yesterday here is the first semester one in all of its glory a very beautiful blue color very calming feel the serenity as you look at it assessment we don't have plushes in torts so unlike some of the other compulsory subjects there is no plussage and i just want to touch on this quickly because unlike some of the other classes our marking weighting is a bit different we have a test which is worth 20% again that's no plussage we have an essay worth 10% again no plussage then we have a moot for 5% everybody will be required to do a moot this is a great opportunity to try a little bit of advocacy if that's something that you're interested in please do not stress about that there will be support to assist you tutorial attendance we give you points for attending tutorials yay so basically there's 5% for tutorial attendance and you need to attend four compulsory tutorials and then your moot that's the 5% you do not have to attend people's tutorials unless you want to why would you want to well because they're going to be arguing about things that we're discussing in class and it could be advantageous to you to do so clinics want to mention something about this briefly there are four clinics in the year they're optional they are taken by yours truly i will be talking about test preparation in one test feedback in one test preparation in one and exam preparation in one essentially we will be going over past exam problems test problems and i will be giving some handy hints to help you along the way you will need to sign up for clinics on canvas as i said it is optional i will send around a message on canvas shortly probably at the beginning of next week so that you can all sign up for class lastly lecture recordings we've made a decision as a group this year that we will allow lecture recordings yay however the little caveat to that is that we're going to post them at the end of the week and that's just to incentivize people to attend the lectures so they'll all be posted in one go at the end of every week yeah i think that that's basically it so it was lovely meeting all of you i appreciate your time and congratulations being a lawyer is a real privilege and all of you are now becoming part of the club so congratulations and i will see you in torts thank you now i will welcome back warren swain to speak on law of contract as well as study techniques and tutorials along with my other segments i'm here to say briefly about the law of contract as i noted i am not professor dorsen though it was slightly disconcerting in the teaching evaluations the other year when professor dorsen and myself were referred to those too old english guys um but there we are um we've heard in some detail about the uh fun and frivolity excitement and relevance and importance of the other part 2 courses uh my segment is somewhat more eorish but i would note that of course contracts in reality are the is the type of law that you are much more likely to come into contact with than any of the other kinds of law mentioned by my colleagues um assuming that you are not a recidivist criminal offender then contracts are something that you're used to dealing with in all of the time contract really uh divides into two neat parts in a sense that one can think of these two parts in two ways one can think of them as semester 1 and 2 of course but one can also think of the law of contract as a relationship semester 1 is when everything is marvellous the valentine's card has been received the chocolates and flowers have been exchanged the dinner dates have been had you have gazed lovingly into each other's eyes i think we'll draw a veil over the discussion at that point but it's where everything's going well everything is rosy and that's a bit like the first semester of the law of contract it's where the parties are getting on the parties have entered into an agreement it's about the mechanics of forming that bond or that relationship semester 2 is the inevitable the rouse have started the dates have been missed the frustration has shown the performance has ceased as with the law of contract the parties are at loggerheads one is refusing to perform or both are or worse one or both are performing badly semester 2 deals with the question of contract breach and remedies that are available for breach of that contract if you want to think of it in another way you may think of contract as being like Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde for those of you not familiar with gothic novels i suggest that you google it it has usually been thought in other universities that i have taught the subject in that i am more Mr Hyde than Dr Jekyll however this year i am Dr Jekyll here i am teaching the beginning of the course in semester 1 indeed in semester 2 i will be in Cambridge on sabbatical but semester 1 then consists of contract formation offer and acceptance consideration topics like that semester 2 consists of the remedies for breach etc i just say though a more general word about the material for the law of contract the main resources are found on the canvas page you will have received a message from me through canvas over the last weekend alerting you to this the casebook is available as a pdf and also available for purchase there is no set course book though the recommended reading if you are rich is Burroughs Finn and Todd however the library do have a number of copies of those a new edition has come out i have to say that the first chapter is greatly improved given that there are extensive references to my last book within it professor Stockley's point that academic books are not widely read i used to believe until i discovered that some i won't use a bad word have pirated my monograph and it is available on the web as a pirated copy quite why anyone would be interested in the law of contract 1670 to 1870 is anyone's guess but there we are this course is unfortunately both case and statute heavy particularly in relation to semester 2 statute is really important now i know this seems boring and bits of contract law are i'm afraid tedious um much of life i'm afraid is tedious almost my entire existence is tedious and i make this point not just for the levity but to say to you actually you really need to persevere with this stuff if the case doesn't make sense first time then you need to look at it again and again if necessary i'll give you some guidance when i teach that part of the course about those authorities i can't promise any exciting details of the private life of who i gather are some kind of b-list celebrities however what the cases are really about is illustrating principles and it's important that you engage with them there aren't really any shortcuts i'm afraid with this in my experience over many years teaching law in three different countries that the more students put into it the more they get out of it and actually it is a little bit unfortunately of an endurance test in that it's often the case one finds that students initially they're quite enthusiastic they will have read the case book after about week two that peters off real life intervenes there's more fun to be had than reading the contract course book so i'm told but i would urge you to just try and keep at it contract does make more sense once you've done some of it it all makes it all fits together it's not a subject that's as equally discrete as possibly some others are i'll do my best to make at least my segment as entertaining as possible this is taught into streams at eight a.m that is one stream the other stream i think for memories 12 till one you will have me for the first five weeks until Easter i will be followed by Dr Fairweather who is joining us who has taught in Australia and the UK for the remainder of the semester one then Professor Dawson will be teaching you for all of semester two in its entirety Professor Dawson is an authority on what used to be the contractual remedies act but which has now been consolidated in a big statute a couple of years ago last year i think the contract and commercial law act so you'll have the intricacies of the legislation to look forward to in semester two i did teach that material a few years ago in semester two but i have to say well you'll have that treat coming just something very briefly on the assessment assessment for this course consists of four items there will be a test i think from memory in May there's an essay there's a final examination and there's tutorial attendance tutorial attendance is compulsory with a deduction if you don't attend plusage does apply on this course but note in order to get plusage you have to submit all of the assessment equally if you even if you're not wanting plusage the tutorial essay is a compulsory course requirement so in essence really given all students want to be able to claim plusage you need to undertake all four pieces of assessment in this course please read very carefully the details on that assessment as i set them out on the canvas page under the syllabus it is assumed for the avoidance of doubt that you have read the canvas page and understand the syllabus i hope will have no sympathy whatsoever in my associate dean capacity if any student claims they didn't understand what was required of them on this course consider yourself duly notified equally on that point can i ask can i note that you will be sent emails through canvas at various points on this course please keep an eye an eye out for those emails on that note i have nothing more to add other than to say you should have received an email about the course reading for the first week of the semester we will consider the question of agreement beginning on monday morning at 8am and i trust on monday morning at 8am you will all be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed which is more than i will be the best advice and i know some of you are commuting so i only have to walk from across the road but gallons of coffee are usually a good idea i'll try my best to make that part of the course as entertaining as i can i'll try if i can to read you some poetry as i have done in the past this part of the course is recorded and the lecture recordings are available as we thought they will be available at the end of the week in which the lectures are delivered i would encourage you to attend the lectures in any event even though you can get the lecture recordings because there may be some engagement there may be actually in my experience saves time attending the lectures because it's easy just to think oh i can sit in bed and listen to the lecture recordings and that will be i'll absorb the information actually time wise i have to say in my experience i know it's a pain to get out of bed especially in the middle of winter and it's dark and raining but actually it probably in the long run saves time sitting here and assimilating the information but i can't of course insist you attend but i would genuinely urge you to do so thank you very much i think i follow again do i so i'll just continue on to my next item now i'm going to say something very briefly about study techniques and tutorials and here i'm going to begin as usual with a poem and this is a poem by the great english poet w h orden who many of you will be aware of i've chosen orden not because orden is my favourite poet my favourite poet if any of you are interested is a.e. houseman who is suitably aorish especially the later poems houseman if you learn nothing today it's that you should go away and read some poems of a.e. houseman there are actually at the end of the day some things more important than law and poetry and art are two that immediately spring to mind so if you pick up nothing today it's that you go away and read a.e. houseman not just the shropshire lad which is perhaps his best known but some of the later poems which are heartbreakingly sad they concern subjects such as love, disappointment and failure if after reading a houseman you feel depressed I suggest that you turn to my other great favourite poet Philip Larkin who many of you will also be familiar with this but because you're here at the beginning and we need something a bit more cheerful let's start with W. H. Orden W. H. Orden once wrote law is like love in the poem he contrasted different senses of the law the law of nature the law of religion etc he devoted a verse to the kind of law that you're familiar with or already familiar with and he said this law says the judge has he looked down his nose speaking clearly and most severely law is as I've told you before law is as you know I suppose law is but let me explain it once more law is the law I know nothing or certainly very little about love so I can't really comment on whether the comparison is a valid one however it's worth reflecting on the way in which the judge in Orden's poem presents the law it's something certain something definite the law is the law and this is commonly how lay people and part two students going into the law of contract think about the law the law is black and white it gives us answers it's some kind of super computer where everything is black and white and there are no shades of grey the truth I'm afraid is more complicated the law is often contradictory we've got authorities that contradict each other there's a famous case that I will don't teach this year but an English Supreme Court case called the Achilles where two judges say one thing two say the total opposite and Lord Walker agrees with both make of that what you will and it's interesting to note that Lord Walker is not an idiot I don't have that view about a large number of English or indeed New Zealand judges but Lord Walker certainly isn't in that category so why good question I have met Lord Walker twice and failed on both occasions to ask him for an explanation but more usual than that actually is where judges reach the same result of the decision but for different reasons as you should be of course familiar with from legal method what we need to do is to try and make sense of this complexity now last year I talked to all of the course directors from part two who indeed are the same as this year and asked them to identify for me what they think is important about studying law to which I've added some of my own thoughts between us as is perhaps evident we all have considerable experience in teaching law I would suggest more than a century's worth between us which is something of a frightening thought so what's lesson number one lesson number one as I've already alluded to is the importance of the case law you need to read the cases that are contained in the case books there is a misconception sometimes amongst students in the three countries I've taught law and I've taught a wide variety of legal topics including taught law, land law equity, restitution I am a legal historian so I teach a legal history elective Roman law legal theory a whole lot of things but amongst all of those students in all of those subjects there are some students who think that they can go to the lectures write down what the lecturer says and regurgitate that in the exam and be awarded an A it doesn't impress me that the student agrees with everything I say or regurgitates everything I say indeed in one university when I was younger and not going to cede one student thought it was a good idea to cover their exam scripts in hearts and write declarations of love on it in the hope that that would get them an A grade they sadly were disabused of that notion when they received their examination mark back but it's an important point this you are at the stage now where you should be engaging with the material yourself you should come to your own view on some of the material and quite happy if people don't agree with me I'd be quite worried if you agree with me on everything that would be worrisome but in order to properly engage intellectually with the material you need to read the cases all I can say about that is it gets easier I remember what it's like to start reading the cases I may all seem old to you but I'm not actually that old I read Law in the 1990s not the 1890s and I remember what it's like the kind of support one got in Oxford colleges in the 1990s with who seemed to be an old man in tweed turned up we sat in an oak panel dream he said here's your reading for the first tutorial go away and read the cases he gave us a list of about 60 cases to read in a week we were told to go away and read them that was it we sat there in the middle of the night in the olden days before it was all online in the college library at three in the morning went days without sleep reading the cases writing down everything in them and of course it was hopeless we didn't know what we were looking for we just were writing everything down we didn't know what was relevant we didn't know what was relevant because we didn't know how to read a case and we didn't know how to read a case because we've not had any practice in reading a case the more you do it as I understand as guessing most things the more adroit you become at the particular task in hand in other words you'll get easier and you'll notice at one point you'll suddenly feel it's got really much easier but law of course is about statutes as well for some reason students are more frightened of statutes even than of cases you need to try and get over that initial fear though I'd note that statutes are frustrating even for those of us who have experience or considerable experience in reading them including law professors and including judges no one at your stage is a fully formed lawyer it's really important not to expect too much of yourself straight away I know that there's a a little voice on everybody's shoulder and it's important to note this everybody has a little thing that sits on their shoulder telling them that they're not good enough you need to find some kind of technique for silencing that little voice that we all have but it's really important that you don't expect too much too soon so just keep honestly you just keep at it it's why partly these courses span two semesters you'll find as you get through semester one probably around the mid semester or even into early semester two it will start to become a bit easier it will start a bit to make more sense it will seem a bit to fit together more the lectures though are designed to give the subject matter hopefully some structure and to be an introduction to crucial ideas as I'm stressing here you need to be responsible for your own learning so you need to look at the cases before the lecture you need to do reading before the tutorial in contract I've given you a detailed lecture handout which should provide you with a structure for that material other lectures will give you PowerPoint there are some expectations about the work that you do for each course which of course depend on the credits that a course is given but as a rough rule of thumb for every hour spent in a lecture or tutorial there should be three hours work outside of it and that work outside the classroom is critical but where do you start well you start by attending the lectures remember though it's only possible to recall roughly around 20% of what you hear I know it's tempting to let your mind wonder I know it's tempting to send emails or go on to something I'm told is called Facebook or to go and do your online shopping I understand that temptation I really do I spend a good deal of my working week in a whole lot of university committees some of which I have to confess are extremely boring it's tempting not to concentrate on the business in hand and to deal with your emails I can't say I'm very afraid with online shopping although I have used the book deposit treat and bought airline tickets but other than that actually concentration is a really important skill for lawyers really really really important and you need to try and grasp that skill this was really brought to my attention when I worked at the University of Queensland and I used to judge moots on a regular basis with judges the concentration that those people had listening to the mooting was absolutely extraordinary my mind was wondering I was doodling I was thinking about God knows what but the judges were always always able to concentrate and they're able to do that because that's what they do day in day out they have to sit there listening to the tedious boring council rambling on before them so I did hear an anecdote and this is a judge who's long dead in Queensland in the 1980s who used to have two things under the bench when he was listening to cases one was a magazine on woodwork that he used to read and the other was a glass of whiskey that he kept his associate and a friend of mine was his associate the job of the associate was to keep topping up whiskey glass those days are gone and those days are gone for you so really at one skill you do need to develop is a skill of concentration a second skill you need to develop is a skill of taking notes the trick is identifying what's important this of course is a vital skill for lawyers and one that shouldn't be overestimated all the research on pedagogy which is a fancy word for saying teaching and learning shows that it's best to be an active learner and an active learner is one that engages with the content you're just not you don't just sit there as a receptacle and have all the information poured over you active learning means putting your own order on the material it means reviewing your notes putting them in a way that you can engage with I know some students find drawing diagrams and they're like helpful and putting your notes from the lectures alongside your own reading please don't begin the process the night before the test or the exam it needs to be an ongoing process and an ongoing discipline if you think and some of you in this room will think that you can wing it and sit the night before reading through your lecture notes and get an A in the exam or in the test that can say is the best of luck to you many students of course find study groups helpful and I would say to you that isn't necessarily a good, sorry isn't necessarily a bad idea some of you of course may be tempted to use outside tutoring firms of course entirely a matter for you though I would just stress two things the first is that those firms and there are a number of them do have no connection whatsoever with the faculty of law or the University of Auckland the second point to note is that they can make no guarantee that their materials are entirely aligned with the current syllabus that can change from year to year lecturers change different people set the exams different people mark the exams equally of course they're not checking their materials for accuracy or any of those things inevitably as they're organisations that are completely separate from us that's just the fact I'm not making any pejorative statement but I'm just you do well to remember that and to say too that we've got clinics in tort law as Nicky's already said there'll also be clinics that I forgot to mention which will be taking place in the law of contract which Dr Carr is running in semester one and Dr Fairweather is running in semester two these clinics are voluntary but I would urge you to attend them students last year found them really useful well what can we do to help well what we can do to help is really as follows we offer the clinics on those courses secondly you shouldn't be afraid to go and talk to the lecturer if there's anything in the lecture content you don't understand you might put your hand up in a lecture some students do that that's fine you might go up to the lecturer after the lecture that's fine too or you might go to the office hours that's also fine too but please take advantage of that opportunity the people teaching those courses are there to assist you and if there is something you don't understand about the content ask them no question is a stupid question indeed many students say to me oh I think this is probably a stupid question it actually appears to be an extremely incisive question if you're not unsure about the content or don't find the content in places confusing that isn't a sign of stupidity in fact it's a sign of the reverse it's a sign of intelligence rather than stupidity I find some of the material confusing and contradictory and illogical so don't feel that this is a fault of yours actually quite the opposite so make sure that you take advantage of that resource and talk to the course lecturer there seems to have been in the past some how do I put this some rumour that I am unwilling and unhelpful and do not like seeing students this is completely untrue I am always happy to see students between 5 and 7 in the evening most days other than a Friday so if any of you are in my courses please email me and make an appointment to come and see me if you don't want to come and see me individually and need support with you then come as a group that's absolutely fine too but I mean that quite genuinely I'm really very very happy to see any student who wants to talk to me about the course content so don't feel that I'm in some way too grand for you to come and see and really it's the one part of my job that I still enjoy is talking to students about the course content so please any of you who want to please just or get me after a lecture I think it's true of all of my colleagues I don't expect most of my colleagues are there at 7 in the evening most of the rest of them have other lives but they will equally be happy to see you nevertheless I'd like to though just end with a plea you should make the most of university working for your degree is important but it shouldn't be everything I've spent my whole life since I was 12 years old at my desk working and I've had a whole heap of academic prizes and the youngest law professors in Australasia etc etc but it isn't everything certainly if I had my time again I wouldn't have spent my entire life since I was 12 at my desk this actually is the most important thing I'm going to say to you that you must take advantage of all the wider things that university has to offer you I mean this most kindly and absolutely sincerely it shouldn't just be about working there are a whole lot of other opportunities social and other kinds of opportunity you'll also hear a bit about well-being in the end of the day it's a question of balance if you don't want to end up like me and who would then you need to actually think quite carefully about that I know it's difficult now I know a lot of you have to work I worked as a student myself I came from a poor background I had to work all the way through my studies I know it's hard I really do and I'm absolutely sympathetic to this but I just would urge you to allow within all of these commitments on your time allow a bit of time for yourself I'd just like to thank you all then for listening and wish you all good luck as you move into party thank you come to our break and I'd like to just say that we'll see you all back in five minutes for the 298 lecture so back here at quarter to 11 so I'd like to now introduce Stephanie Carr who will now present your lecture on Law 298 Kia ora everybody how's everybody doing today okay awesome okay so I'm here to talk to you about Law 298, legal research, writing and communication for this year firstly congratulations I'm making it into part two it's an awesome achievement so well done to each and every one of you I am here in place of the course director Bronwyn Davies who gives her apologies she's teaching another course today but I have responsibility for the research component of the course so I'm instead here in your little pack you have the booklet for the orientation and if you open it up hey you will see Law 298 is the very first page after the ad and the contents so we must be the most important course of course so Law 298 is an exciting course designed to help you with the law school process and this foreign language called law you'll have already found out how strange some of the legal language sounds to your ear so the objective of this course is to help you decode all of this language while providing you with practical assistance to help you with your legal research and writing not only for your law studies but on into legal practice so when you write your legal essays or opinions this year you will need to know how to analyse what you're asked for how to find relevant information and how to write it all up and this course is going to be the foundation for all of the studies that you will do at law school also your case books do not have everything that you will need for your opinions and essays especially if you want to do well so this course will help you to research and write better so as I said Bromwin Davies is your course director her contact email is on the screen and it will be on your canvas page for Law 298 and here is my picture as the legal research coordinator Law 298 is a 10 point compulsory course you have to complete it to pass your law degree we'll cover research, writing, communication and wellbeing will be integrated throughout the course and it is a year long course taught in small groups so hopefully you've already enrolled in your workshop classes through the student services online going to start just by giving you an overview of the course and if you miss this information we'll put the slides up on canvas for you but how the course will work over the semesters you will start with the legal research component of the course for the first four classes that you come to we work on a fortnightly schedule then from class 5 through to semester 2 you will go to legal writing classes with a different tutor so the first four classes are legal research classes held in the Davis Law Library so when you go down the hill today for the sausage and barbeque you'll be standing right outside the Davis so there's no excuse that you can't find us we're the big building right in the middle when you get into the Davis you go to the Bell Gully Computer Laboratories so they are our sponsors of one of the big law firms in town you'll start legal writing from the fifth class and you will be in a different room and that will be announced on canvas the classes or workshop schedule runs on a fortnightly pattern usually from a Tuesday to a Friday I'll talk more about that in a moment but if you're in class 1 week 1 starting next week then figure out if you're in cycle for week 1 or 2 and you've just got the start dates in an overview of all the dates and weeks that are going to be covered on the screen semester 2 information is on canvas and in the course book which I'll talk about in a moment so what you need to work out for next week if you're in week 1 for classes 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 up to 35 so all the odd numbers attend in week 1 all the even numbers attend in week 2 so you need to make sure you come to the correct workshop there are two really important exceptions to the regular schedule that there are class changes for the classes usually held on Friday the 30th March which is Good Friday those classes your workshops will be brought forward to the Monday the 26th of March at your usual time and also for Wednesday the 25th of April there's no classes on that day because it's a public holiday so if you would usually attend a workshop or class on that day your classes are brought forward to Monday the 23rd of April at your regular time so the example is if your class is usually 9am on Wednesday the 25th you come at 9am on Monday the 23rd instead attendance is compulsory so 298 requires 100% attendance at all of the classes if you miss a class there's an automatic deduction of 5 marks and that will happen every time you miss a class up to a maximum of 50% again there is more details on the class schedule on Canvas and in the course book if there is a problem with you attending you get sick or there's something going on in your life that makes it really difficult and you can't attend your regular class session then go and see one of the course advisors either Martina or Emily and you must have a legitimate reason as you saw with the video doctor certificate dentist note or counselling reference so make sure you follow the rules and see a course advisor Broman and I as the directors cannot grant any changes to your workshop times what do you have to do to get through there is two pieces basically two worksheets which you'll get a word document and you have to complete all the little quizzes if you like and then there will be two online quizzes through Canvas and we'll give you plenty of warning and plenty of details about those when we get into the classes for legal writing and communication assessment there will be three assignments they're outlined in the course book and on the Canvas page but the really good thing there's no exam so you get to go through clear at the end of the year for 298 any announcements and information for this course will definitely go through Canvas so make sure you've got your uni email turned on or forwarded to your preferred email to get those Canvas announcements what I'd recommend is that if you haven't already been in and had a look at the 298 Canvas page you'll see that before your classes one of the key things that you should have a look at is there is under files a copy of the course book all of the course information about assignments you can put into your calendar and also a legal resource online which I'll show you in a moment one other aspect you need to be aware of is that from 2014 all students admitted to new programs have to complete the online academic integrity course if you get a course code on Canvas similar to that on the board ACIDINT AO1 you need to complete this course I'm assuming most of you if you've been in stage one have completed this but if you are new to University of Auckland you've got to complete the five modules and the associated tests and you have to get all of them in 100% clearance for your answers if you do not complete this semester you'll be re-enrolled for next semester and if you fail you'll get a DNC so make sure you do that if you have to in regards to the legal research component which you'll start next week all of the information is linked on Canvas including this little module which you'll see pictured it's something you could do before class to get you prepared and there are optional quizzes where you can self-test yourself and your understanding of the material so this would be really good preparation for the Netflix watching and the socialising log on to Canvas, go to law 298 look at the legal research online resource which is in the middle sort of tab and click through the class 1 information just to give yourself an overview as far as the legal research course content this slide just gives you the outline of what the research course will entail and because it's a practical skills course we're going to teach you how to use online materials so for class 1 we'll give you an introduction to some basic research tools class 2 we're going to give you a focus for looking at case law using the online legal databases class 3 we'll focus on legislation how you find an interpret and analyse all that type of source and for class 4 we're going to look at secondary sources and work on your problem methodology solving skills using the IRAC methodology so there's a lot of work there's a lot of information to absorb focus on your goal to keep you motivated so be like the young lady and not like the sleeping gentleman you need to pass this class to get through law school so the legal research class is just confined to the first 4 rounds for semester 1 as we go through the legal research courses we're going to introduce you to the legal research process which was a diagram we formulated at the Davis Law Library which shows you each of the research steps that we will be focusing on for Law 298 it's also in your course book so you don't need to note it all down today so we're going to consider how you analyse and identify your issues, how you consult resources, what you need to do to update and evaluate and how you apply all of that so there's a big process quite different to some of the other disciplines you've probably been working with to do a course about legal research well it's all because there's so many different things about working with legal information and just to sort of give you an idea of what they are it's all about the structure, the tools that you use the way that your reference is completely different and how it's all organised so we're going to clarify that in the classes for you but if you look at that Canvas online module there are some tips in there and information for you as well what I'd really recommend is if you go to Ubook and you want to purchase the blue Law 298 course book you can do that obviously at your cost but all the pages are then nicely sort of bound together for you there's also a PDF of the course book available on Canvas so you can download that and work through that as you look at that there will be exercises for the research classes we're going to do those in the classes so no need for you to rush home and go through and try and do those all before you come to the class so we're doing group practical exercises within the research sessions there is a prescribed text it's the New Zealand Law Style Guide and this is the referencing style you will be using for this whole year at Law School it's the required style not only for Law School but the whole legal profession so you can purchase these from Ubook but there are copies available to borrow at the Davis on short loan or just go to that website and you can keep accessing that there's nothing to download it's just a clickable sort of tool you can go through there is a third edition due potentially this year so I would actually recommend just rely on the online one for now but if you like me and you do like print tools purchase the second edition from the bookshop there are two other recommended texts again both of these are available in the Davis for you to borrow Peter Spiller the New Zealand Law Dictionary you can borrow that from the Law Library and be able to interpret terms and phrases that might be unfamiliar to you Legal Research in New Zealand by Mary Rose Russell also gives you a really good introduction to how legal research works and all of the tools that you will need to use again you don't need to purchase them borrow them from the library the libraries and learning services website you've got the address there most of you hopefully are aware of this website there's a whole lot of study research and teaching tools in there for your information you can look up your books, key information for the sources you might want to use most importantly I'm sure you already know but this is where you source your exams from so when it gets to the end of the year and you want to look up the CRIM exam from last year this is the place to go and get that we also have a law subject guide so this is a page that's collated by the law librarian team and they've put all the resources you will need related to particular legal jurisdictions or topics in one place so you can access some quick links at the top including Canvas all the law databases are in that right hand side if you want to look for New Zealand legal resources you can do that under jurisdiction so it's a very good idea to bookmark this page on your computers and devices so that's an easy access point for seeking information this year the Bell Gully Computer Lab as I've mentioned is where you will come next week for the first round of your 298 research classes so when you get to the Davis turn right once you get in the main door and you'll see room 203 pictured there it's a very small compact room and I'd recommend bringing something warm to where it does get a bit chilly just in regards to my other role as the Davis Law Library Manager we have a Facebook page with our barrister bear or Barry as we like to call him so you can like us or link to that page if you want to see what's going on in the day and what Barry's been up to along with all the other Facebook pages that you sign up to in regards to writing and communication Bronwyn's asked me just to say a few words in regards to those parts which will be after round five so in semester one what you'll start with is introductions there will be general writing tips essay writing which is crucial for this year because you will have essays to write for your compulsory classes then in semester two you will look at case analysis and case notes some of that we will start in the research classes and that is a really important thing to do all the way through the year they will then further progress with IRAC and elements analysis legal memos and negotiation so quite a full on program for legal writing communication but really key and crucial for your law studies this year the legal writing teachers as I mentioned Bronwyn is the director but there will be a team of instructors who will be assigned to each class and the contact details for those instructors will be made available on canvas later in the semester I'm sure those instructors and tutors will also give you their contact details go to their sessions so just a quick summary of the things you need to do after class today go and get the blue course book from you book or log on to canvas and look at the PDF version there and also if you are keen go and have a look at that legal research online course that is linked on canvas as well hey team have a great year I hope it all goes really well good luck enjoy your time remember to take time out and we'll see you down at the Dave I'd like to introduce the student centre team so here we have so next to me is who speaking next who is Claudia Higgins she is our Employee Engagement Manager if you have any questions about careers, CVs what to put on it, what you want to study what your employers are looking for you go see her we have Emily McGowan she is your part 2 to 4 advisor so if you have any questions it's to her and she also deals with extensions then we have Surinjika she is our Student Centre Manager any questions at all you see her Angela is our postgraduate and international advisor so maybe in the future you're wanting to do any postgraduate courses there are postgraduate courses available for undergrad so you would see her we have Sofina she is our Pacific Advisor so if you have any queries and you can see her about that then we have Tessa she is our well being and experience advisor so she'll look after for example mentoring community project and internship so any questions there then we have Martina who is another advisor and she looks after the 360 so if you're thinking of exchange you see her as well as tutorial attendance to both her and Emily and then last but not least we have Catherine who is our Pofina Maori so if you have any questions and you just see her about that so that's the Student Centre team we are located in Building 810 so if you have any questions just come by anytime so I'll now introduce Clota who will now speak I feel I must follow everyone else and congratulate you on getting in here but the hard work doesn't end now as the Dean said so quick show of hands who came to university because they think it will be a good thing for a career most of you Martina I am the Employer Engagement Manager here at the Law School so essentially my job is to make sure that you guys know what careers are pay to get into them and then as well as bring industry into the Law School to meet you guys I'm in the handbook page 27 my big smiley face is there for you guys so I have a curiosity test this is where you need to stand up because we want to know what your con joints are BA stand up if you're a BA come hey sit down Bachelor of Health Sciences just a few of you two at the back a Bachelor of Science a few more Bachelor of Engineering just a plain old LLB what we're going to do is I'm going to read out three career statements and then I'm going to ask you which one you identify most with and stand up when I read it out I'm thinking about being a lawyer but willing to keep my options open I have absolutely no intention of being a lawyer but I know the LLB degree is a great degree to have so the first one definitely want to be a lawyer straight LLB kids that makes a lot of sense I'm thinking about being a lawyer but willing to keep my options open oh yeah say a few of you and I have absolutely no intention of being a lawyer but I know the LLB degree is a good one to have it's the honest people my piece of advice around that is keep your options open as you go through the degree there will be parts of the law degree that you love there will probably be parts that you don't love to put it as nicely as possible but keep your options open as to what you might do when you leave here anything else any other random career do you want to share awesome we will try and help you with that okay does anyone want to hazard a guess as what recruiters look for from law students what is expected from you guys anything you guys are law students you're going to have to open those mouths and give some opinions sooner rather than later yep a stellar personality yeah absolutely I think that goes for any job but a stellar personality will always be good anything else yes hard work yeah they expect good grades out of you guys yeah definitely anything else yep yeah competency absolutely I would hope you get that from studying here yep that's what you do but that is definitely part of the legal industry for sure right this is what I'm talking about they expect strong analytical skills out of you guys we will test them trust me those analytical skills will be tested when you're at the law degree problem solving written communication verbal communication and a passion for what they do none the less passion is important as you go through the law degree once again there will be bits that you like bits that you don't like aligning what you like with what the real world does really helps if you're really into commercial law then a commercial law firm might be where you want to start your career if you're really into criminal you might be with the public defense service so aligning yourself and your passions with what they do is really important okay what to do while you're studying these are just suggestions there is no tick the box exercise to getting a job I wish there was it would make my life much easier but here are some suggestions maintaining your grades law still holds on to the GPA getting a bad grade is not the end of the world we can definitely work away with that but you need to maintain your grades you are expected to have good grades leaving here educate yourself in your career now it seems really obvious but the responsibility lies solely with you guys luckily for you I'm here so what I do is I bring employers into you guys they are dying to meet you so when I send you an email you would have got one this morning with all the job stuff in it register attend and get your personal brand out there get involved now the law school has 10, 12 clubs and societies but there will also be lots of clubs and societies in your other faculties that you are part of and also with the central campus life people getting involved showing your passion about something goes so far in your career get some work experience can anyone tell me what summer Clark is yep go on give it a whirl that was a bit mean I'm sorry oh it's that will you work as a clerk for the summer yep that's it brilliant so Clarkships are for the law industry and they are essentially how you guys get trained up in law so there are summer Clarkships they usually are available for you guys to apply to in your penultimate year but there are opportunities throughout your entire degree where you can be gaining experience law experience is one thing but general experience is just as relevant your part-time job in Subway or I don't know McDonald's is still totally relevant it says great things about you you can turn up on time they don't let you not work when you're in McDonald's you work pretty hard for eight hours it says good things about you network network network I can see the fear in your eyes this word just strikes fear into students hearts and I don't know why networking isn't a quest to get something out of someone it isn't you have job networking works networking is a genuine conversation with people when you have a genuine interaction with people and you share ideas information passions that old word again it's really important and the more you do it the better you get at it it becomes easier and easier now between me, the clubs and societies we constantly shove industry in your face we're constantly bringing them into the law school do not waste the opportunity to face in front of the people who will one day hire you would be my advice and I'm sure everyone who has a job would share that advice the one thing I want you guys to walk away with from here is you are probably pretty good at high school I have a feeling most of you did pretty well at high school or if you came as a mature student within your career most of you got into part two so you've already beaten some part of the competition to succeed at the law degree you're gonna get big fat nose it's just the name of the game when it comes to recruitment it's not you, it's them I like to use a little dating analogy but when you meet the love of your life it's beautiful so I just want to end this by saying you're gonna get nose and it's gonna hurt it really stings, I still remember mine I can't even look at the rejection letter it still hurts so much but you are going to get them I almost want to say it's okay that you get nose it's not you, it's them you'll get there so as well as me we have CEDES as most of you have already been at the university for a while you've probably come across them so there are career development and employability services they're up in the Cate Edgar above Shaky Isles they have a law expo on Monday the 12th of March it's well worth going to there'll be employers there they're not looking to hire you you're a little early on at the degree program for them but once again you're networking you have CEDES for CV's cover letters, workshops, interview tips all that lovely stuff they have online portal and they send you lots of emails with who's coming on campus and you should go so the person that you guys would go to in CEDES is Shannon Ring she is the law representative awesome and that's all from me you can come visit me if you like I live in the student center with these guys it's a busy period coming up for me because of recruitment opening on the 16th of March but if you want to come after that you can come Kylie Ryan from the university health and counseling and she'll just do a presentation on wellbeing hello welcome well done, you made it through first year law you got here I once made it through first year law too and I actually got into second year law and then I decided I never ever wanted to be a lawyer in my life and got poached and here I am so things to think about this year we've seen this stuff last year who wasn't here last year at Auckland University anyone come from somewhere else my person's like me but not me okay so we're going to talk a little bit today about mental health welcome to law you're some of our most stressed out students you're in competition with med school it's not a competition don't try and outdo med school on that note okay so we're going to talk a little bit about anxiety and depression in particular today and how some of the stuff you would have seen around campus last year we spammed you with emails much to your disappointment but how that works for you in your second year so as a reminder what we know is that one in four young people will experience mental illness while they're here once you're enrolled in university you're five times more likely than the general population if you're over the age of 25 good news if you haven't experienced mental illness so far likely than those under 25 to do so okay so there are some joys of being older so what that means we have 42,000 students on this campus and 10,000 of them will experience mainly depression or anxiety while they're here so it's huge okay why is that I see all the time in the news them going it's because you look at your cell phones too much obviously I'm sorry but it's genetic so next time someone says that particularly your parents you can go no it's not mum and dad it's your fault okay that's the main cause you have a predisposition to it it's like other health things like diabetes if it runs through your family you have a predisposition that doesn't necessarily mean that you will experience it but you may at some point there's always those odd ones as well that pop up where there's been no family history okay but it is mainly genetic so what is it that brain with anxiety that blue bit in the middle is the amygdala if you have anxiety you are pretty much born with an overactive amygdala okay we need anxiety it saves us in life and death situations if someone comes up and grabs you your amygdala is going to pump adrenaline through your system which is going to allow you to get away or survive in that situation okay so that's a good thing if you have anxiety your brain does that constantly which isn't such a good thing and is exhausting okay so it's a bit like a lifeguard on duty at the beach who doesn't just save the people that are drowning but thinks everyone's drowning and starts pulling them all out of the water okay and coping with that all the time is pretty tough stuff for your brain to do as well as achieving academically okay it's usually in regards to anxiety themes so people have anxiety in some situations and not others the main two we see in university is social anxiety so when we stand here go yeah you should join a club and network and connect you're sitting there going I hate people people hate me I'm not connecting with anyone okay and that's your brain just going over time some of you can overcome that for some of you with anxiety it's really hard to overcome that because it literally takes over your brain and stops you from doing that the other one we particularly see with law students is exam and testing anxiety if we know about it now we can help you with that it's really hard for us to give you skills to cope with that two weeks before exam time if it's at the point when last year I've been sitting law exams where people are vomiting in toilets before exams that's a full-blown panic attack okay that's your body's response to an over kind of saturation of all the chemicals that your brain's running through your body if we start working on that stuff now we can make a difference in it so it's worth coming to see us at the beginning of the semester instead of just before exams the other one we see a lot of is depression there's a lot of myths around depression as well it is a clinical illness that is most likely caused by genetics again we know there's a hormonal imbalance in the brain if we take a brain scan this is what a not depressed brain looks like versus a depressed brain the reason there are not so many lights on is your brain literally starts shutting down some of its functions so it can cope with what it needs to that means your motivation goes means often your appetite goes or you do the opposite and eat everything in sight that means you probably have issues sleeping or you'll want to sleep all the time you'll either isolate yourself and not want to talk to people or talk to everyone in sight so it looks different in different people but it is a clinical illness and we can start turning those lights back on so one of the biggest issues we have around this is if it's your first experience it's really hard to spot if you know you suffer from anxiety and depression law is one of the degrees that's going to up your stress levels and make those dips come quicker so our goal is to even out those dips so you don't drop too far if we start doing that now we can get it under control by exam time it's really hard both of these on memory recall that's pretty much one of the first parts of your brain that will shut down when it comes to anxiety and depression which is an issue when you're trying to do an exam so it's worth having a think about a worse possible situation we don't want people either to just give up on their degree because that's become too overwhelming we don't want people to hurt themselves and we definitely don't want you to be alone if you're having suicidal thoughts and thinking along those lines okay again that earlier we can help you with this the quicker the intervention is so it's better for you to come to us when it's just starting to dip then when it's in full dip but we can work with both the other thing is when you're in that state it's really hard to seek help yourself because like I said the planning part of your brain is about shutting down and the motivation okay you also think you're all alone in this everyone else around you seems to be doing really well and it's just you like I said 10,000 other students we know for sure and probably five times that amount when we look at your enrolled in university okay so do come and seek help if you notice that friends aren't turning up tutorials or lectures although just acting a bit out of sorts or things aren't going so well don't just ignore that and hope they get better if it's going on for three weeks or more please suggest to them that they might come up to health and counselling and see us so we can get back on top of it again so some of the things to think about who reached this point last year anyone you are going to reach this point again and again and again in university unfortunately I'm actually okay with that you are about to be lawyers it is one of the highest stress degrees so now is a really good time to learn to deal with that stress people often say to me why can't we just spread out assignments and make this a bit easier for everyone you're one of 42,000 students okay there's no way we can cater to everyone so you are going to get times where we give you a lot of work and put you under really highly stressful situations I'm okay with you reaching the top bit but you have to meet the second part of that picture again if you can't pick it back up and go actually I really need to do this till like 2am in the morning or 11.59 when the assignment has to be handed in by then again come and see us don't just drop off the face of the earth okay we can put things in place for you but we need to know about it so prevention wise you would have seen these around campus last year we know these work the internationally researched ways to well being they particularly work in regards to anxiety and depression and are very effective when that's not an issue and you're highly stressed out okay we didn't make them up they've been proven to work time and time again so the way you do this say you're starting to have a crappy week and you know things are starting to go downhill pick one of those parts of the bubble and add it to your week second week pick another one third week pick another one if life is still cracked after three weeks please come and see us in health and counselling okay that's a big red flag for us that there might be something else clinically going on that we need to address okay or perhaps it's just that you've got so much stress not only from university but from personal relationships from working long hours from trying to do placements and clerkships to the rest of it that we need to work with you around finding some balance in that as we said this is always an important one at the beginning of the semester and it's really hard if you suffer from social anxiety as well some things to think about you might sit next to other people and they don't talk to you or they seem quite snobby or standoffish or they don't want to join your study group or the other ones sitting by themselves in tutorials if you're the person who likes to go up and say hello to people and you're all good with that please make the first move okay because it's really hard for some people to just take that step and by you going and saying hey how's it going I'm so and so actually allows that to happen the other thing is if you see people around campus not doing so well please just ask them if they're okay if there's anything you can do okay we won't have time today but we planted actors around campus last year in various states to distress to see whether people would intervene took four hours for someone to check in with this person and see that they were doing okay okay and the other two scenarios no one checked in to see if they were doing okay so we really have to start stepping up and letting people know that there's help available so where do you find us do you want to know where health and counselling is by now that would be a no so we're above Munchie Mart everyone know where Munchie Mart is yay so we're directly above Munchie Mart you just go on to the main Auckland website I'm going to try and type fast and it's going to turn to custard don't try and find health and counselling from here because this website is impossible to find anything on as you probably know so just put in health and counselling which I'm just not excelling out I even went to school when there was typing we're not even first but we're getting over that slowly we're second on the list you can enroll for counselling services here you don't even have to talk to anyone we get most referrals at 2am in the morning okay and they're triage three times a day the general wait list is about two to three days but we also hold about five appointments a day if people need to be seen on that day okay so they are always available as well we have 20 registered psychologists everything is fully confidential your faculty can't access it your future employers can't access it the only time it's been accessed is via court records and a murder case so don't murder anyone as law students and then we'll be fine okay it's fully confidential from there the other thing to consider particularly if you know anxiety and depression is an issue are the well-being groups these run right throughout the semester if anxiety is an issue Luke runs a group for that which is skills based around learning to turn that a big dealer off quicker okay so you don't get to that panic attack stage mindfulness we've seen that great steps in this around academic performance for people it also particularly works around emotional control so for anxiety but also of memories not so great for you this actually grows the part of the brain that deals with memory recall so worth giving a go this one makes me laugh a little bit because I'm pretty sure if you've got social anxiety you don't really want to join a group but there is a social confidence group and again it's just people experiencing similar things to you so if you're freaking out about the networking thing this group will give you some of the skills to do that with not only your peers but with future employers as well mood management if you know depression is an issue this aim is to get those highs and lows less dramatic and keep you in that balance if you think about eating and what you're putting in your mouth 24-7 and are on a diet and binge eating cycle we have the top New Zealand specialist in this area and our team and she runs the intuitive eating group as well none of you are doctors yet if you lose a parent there's a support group rainbow men's group I'm really popular so I would register sooner rather than later same with the indie women's support group this year we've added a well-being group which I'll be running it's a dropping group you don't have to register for it but again if you know you're having a crap week and you want to look at adding some of those things in but you prefer having a person in front of you helping you with that instead of reading it off the internet call into the dropping group which is on 12-1 every Monday once semester starts and that's in the meeting room opposite the main health and counselling doors so I hope that's helpful good luck try not to get too stressed out but when you do remember that this stuff is here guys you in particular are really bad at getting help okay like I said it's a clinical illness your brain is literally shutting down hardening up and working on your resiliency is not going to work please come and see us and seek help you've also got your student support advisors in the law school who can help as well other than that I will see you at some point no doubt otherwise have a nice life and hopefully you get the grades we'll see you later now I'll introduce Hannah Wirtberg who will be speaking on equity and well-being as well as Julia Tommy yes hi I am actually speaking just on equity and Julia Tommy will speak on well-being and we did in that order welcome to part two congratulations on getting in well done and we look forward to working with you so my position that's relevant for today I'm also a part two lecturer at some stage but the reason I'm here today is that I am the law schools associate dean equity and I'm here to assure you that the university and the law school is committed to equity and committed to working on equity and so that's why we have a number of people whose job it is to work towards improving our practices in that area so you might then ask yourself what is equity what is it that I'm working on and introducing to you the university website puts it as equity as pianist and justice that's pretty well encompassing a more specific mission is to make this university and in my case this law school a safe inclusive and supportive law school for all not just for the members of the mainstream for whom systems tend to be designed as if they represented the entire world so a safe inclusive and supportive law school for all so that means an obvious sort of negative thing and a much bigger and more difficult to describe positive thing the negative as in the what we don't want is obviously discrimination is not okay obviously hate speech is not okay whether you're a student or a staff member that is the university one tolerated and the law school certainly won't because if anyone is to be concerned about pianist and justice it should really be the law school so that's what we don't do what we do want to do is to ensure that all different backgrounds and needs and all people's different worlds are accommodated within the law school so to ensure that the same opportunities for all isn't just a theory but is a substantive reality for all for people from all different backgrounds with different needs and different realities okay so that's the objective I guess I'm sounding very serious about that but I think it's a good thing right it's a positive thing that we're all hopefully in together to work for and so better for now on the time the main groups that are identified by the university as equity groups that is groups whose backgrounds and realities and worlds haven't traditionally been accommodated terribly well by mainstream institutions are Pacifica people, students in this case we're concerned with students Pacifica and sorry I should have started with the one group that has special status not just as an equity group but Maori obviously in Aotearoa New Zealand are a treaty partner and despite that have their world has not really been accommodated generally terribly well in our mainstream institutions so that's a much bigger thing than just equity but it belongs to that as well so that's the first one to mention then Pacifica people with disabilities and LGBTI students and most recently added people from a refugee background and from lower socioeconomic background and I suppose last but not least the university officially lists men or women where there are barriers to access and success I guess the reality is that the people who tend to still need better to be taken into account are women and particularly I guess carers which could be men or women was there an interjection or alright so what do we want from you from all of you we would like you to join us in that mission and in that mission for the law school so don't assume that your word is everyone's world and be aware of other possibilities and be aware of any privileges that you may have and keep an eye out for others that don't share those privileges and be there to support them that's what we want from all of you and from those of you who may be members of these equity groups or indeed not a member of an equity group but also somebody whose needs are properly being accommodated we would like you to do a number of things make the most of the support that's available and for some of these equity groups there are special programs and so I haven't yet mentioned actually targeted admission so one of the way that we accommodate different backgrounds and needs is to recognise that some people haven't had the same sort of opportunities in life as others and while the standard of merit of passing a course the standard of getting a law degree is exactly the same for everyone for entry we accommodate the fact that some people have not had the same support and opportunities so far so that is really important and the law school is committed to that and that's why there are special support programs for the large targeted admissions programs and fortunately nothing formal yet for refugee background and socio-economic lower socio-economic but we're working on that and disability as well no sort of formal group program for those but formal group programs with Pacifica and the Māori program so that's part of the support available beyond that and there are student advisors available that specialise in the different groups and importantly you use your peers for support again the main, the larger equity groups have student groups that where you get peer support to make it through law school and so before I say a little bit more about it two other things that we'd like you to do if you need support I'd like to introduce the four main student groups and hopefully we have representatives of them here they represent the four largest groups so firstly the Māori students so the treaty partner and equity group we've got the two co-presidents here Dexter and Naye if you'd like to introduce yourself Te Nara tatou katoa Kia ora ko Dexter Rāpana toko ingoa Huri no te Aroa me Ngāti Tuwharetoa No Rotura a Hau Kia ora my name is Dexter and I am the co-president for Te Rāko Ture the Māori Law Students Association Te Nā koutou katoa Ngātana Here Herewini I come from a little place called Heaven Ahipara in the Far North so you know what they say save the best for last and the worst for first so we are Te Rāko Ture so our primary purpose is to provide a far and safe space for all students but especially for Māori students so we have a common room down in Building 810 where you guys will be attending all of your compulsory tutorials so on level four turn left we've got tables there for study groups we have a fridge there full of milk all the time we have coffee and all those other sorts of things that keep you going during the day it's also awesome to see some of the people who came to our interviews for the scheme that Hannah just mentioned congratulations to not only you Māori fellas but everybody else who got through today as well I hope you yourselves and your families are immensely proud of yourselves because it's a massive achievement Kia ora koutou Kia ora te Hey guys my name is Tara I'm the female co-president for Pilsa the Pacific Island Law Students Association this is my sports officer Eddie first of all congratulations you guys for making the cut of 350 students out of 1000 that's a huge achievement you guys should be really proud so what Pilsa is about we provide academic support partial support social and academic but mainly like career support for Pacific Island Law Students we know that a lot of our Pacifica Law Students they have financial hardship at home so they don't have a lot of access to resources so we're kind of that family network to provide for them but just because we're pro-Pacifica doesn't mean that we're not inclusive or open to anyone to come by as well as having social cultural events we've got camp coming up, we've got cultural day we've also got Pilsa dinner what we are really good at also promoting is our mentoring program in the past we've been in partnership with a law firm Simpson-Greason or in the process of also working with Meredith as well so what that provides is not only mentoring you know for exams and what not student mentors but also we work with lawyers who can come and give you guys advice on how to prepare for interviews start really thinking seriously about your career as a lawyer you know after you graduate so you'll be looking at internship interview processes and you know the questions that they're wanting to be asking and the people that they'll be looking for so we're just at level level 4 building across from TRT building 810 so just feel free to come by and we'll be all open arms, thanks I'm sure as well my name is John Kingey I'm co-president of Rainbow Law unfortunately my co-president Alex Cranston couldn't be here today but basically we're here to support anyone who's gender non-conforming, non-binary queer, rainbow, questioning or maybe you just haven't made up your mind that's fine and basically we provide support to any students who are in any of those categories also we welcome allies as well so if you're somebody who is passionate about rainbow community or you have friends or family who have experienced discrimination as a result of their gender or sexual orientation we welcome you as well basically we have events throughout the year we'll have a launch event on the 21st of March at Chapman Trip so if you're interested in finding a little bit more about what we do who we are and the events that we'll be running this year come along and you know congratulations on getting into law school and just a word of advice that your grades will go down so don't worry you will, they will if you're used to being an A student you know there'll be about one or two of you who'll be that still but yeah just enjoy your time here at law school make use of all the support services we're all pretty friendly people so make sure that you get involved Kia ora. So I thought we had Lauren here from the women's group as well I was told this morning I was speaking so my name's Lauren I'm from the women in law group we're basically just a place for girls to get support because law school is pretty tough and sometimes it's nice to have shoulder to lean on it's really a transition and we do some really cool activities, we did some fundraising events, we did a sanitary product drive but we also do like wine and cheese nights and go out to plays so we really recommend you come along it's a great way to meet girls we have a really like flexible leadership structure so we really want part 2s to join and it should become part of our leadership team so this sounds like you come sign up, we have a Facebook group as well it's women in law so feel free to join that's more Thank you Lauren. So as I said these are the student groups that represent the main equity groups obviously we appreciate that other ethnic diversity for example is also an issue and I think you'll be meeting some of the other groups that represent those as part of the student societies part so we don't want to ignore that by any means so very quickly two more things one is for those people who may need some kind of accommodation be sure to ask and I guess that particularly goes for students with disabilities and students with caring responsibilities you can ask for special conditions for tests for example or different times if you can't make it at night because of your caring responsibilities that kind of thing but we can't do it if you don't ask and that feeds into my final point which is that you can register as a member of some of these groups and it helps in a number of ways if you register it helps us to push information at you it helps us to be ready to help you when you come because we already know that you have this particular background and it also helps the university in being aware of the numbers that there are and the provision that needs to be made it's particularly important I think for LGBTI there's currently no dedicated funding for that if we could make a case to actually show that you know this is the proportion of students in that group we'd have a much stronger case for some dedicated funding and so you can register your formal university record you can currently show on that if you have a disability or if you develop a disability which is also possible because for example in mental illness counts and work in progress but hopefully soon to be active LGBTI students can register as such and obviously that's confidential information that's not going to be available to every lecturer let alone student but it serves those sorts of purposes I just mentioned and finally really importantly you are a carer if you have caring responsibilities if this appeared you can register now this is a brand new system at the law school you can register with too if it's children there you are too in the student centre if it's children please bring your children's birth certificate if at all possible if you're caring for other family members so you will find other ways of getting that official and then we know that you are somebody who may need test accommodation or who may be able to not attend a tutorial without a medical certificate because you're tired of sick for example right so things like that help us to help you register please and have a great year thank you hi again I'm here this time with my well-being coordinator Hatton myself and Dr Anahod produced a gender report in 2016 and there have also been numerous well-being surveys done at the law school and what these reveal is that the law school can be an incredibly stressful and lonely place for a lot of people so I just want to give you some key messages about that today the first is that you're not alone don't keep it to yourself reach out there's a list of people to contact depending on what kinds of concerns you're grappling with they could be academic, financial, careers, well-being issues such as stress or depression or personal issues that are traumatic that are making it difficult to cope or equity concerns and you can see that list on the front page of every casebook for every course if it's really hard to reach out the person on the list reach out someone you have a relationship with a professional staff or even the student body and they can facilitate that engagement there's absolutely no shame attached the profession needs real people and it needs sensitive people so it's great that you're there the second is I think one of the things that really I found quite painful actually about putting together the gender report was the realisation that we took this incredibly brilliant and talented bunch of young people which you are you wouldn't be here if you weren't and we make most of them feel stressed and inadequate because they're not getting A grades and they don't see themselves getting offers from a large law firm and I really just want to carry this message that grades and a job with one of the large law firms if that is our vision of success that's an impoverished vision it may be that heaven for some people certainly wasn't for me I got into a large law firm and I spent my whole time thinking my god I spent five years getting a law degree and I prefer waitressing so allow yourself a journey of discovery around who you are and what you stand for and what success means for you one of my really cool experiences in 2016 teaching woman in the law was inviting a couple of women in to speak to my woman in the law group Sandra Alofi Vaian Laverne King they came in and talked about their journey Sandra now gives a talk we've got a little video of her on our facebook page giving a talk about her experiences as a practitioner they struggled to find employment when they got out of law school and they got really creative they managed to scrape into jobs and they lost those jobs because their employers were retiring or going overseas and they started to set up their own firm which was pretty difficult as they were young and had no money and no capital but luckily one of their employers provided them with a capital insecurity to get started he's a pretty extraordinary man he's now Judge Philip Recording and this was their mission and their law firm was to run it according to Te Kanga Maori and also to employ other young Maori and Pacifica women graduates give them a couple of years experience with their own firm and they were joined by Aira Malosi who's now a District Court Judge and many many firms have sprung up from their little firm they wanted it all they wanted a professional success and motherhood they felt they had law degrees they deserved the whole shebang so they started up a creche in their own law firm now they are women that I really admire and respect and their journey is one of great success for me failure was not an option what would you dare to dream of so I think it just comes down to thinking about what success means for you what do you stand for, who are you what are your values, what contribution do you want to make and not get stuck in this idea that it's all about getting the best grades we have a little project called Humans at the Law School which is about trying to break down barriers telling different stories of hugely successful people who have had failure at many points along their journey of success and introduce different people as human beings and give you a little bit of insight into them what makes them interesting what their passion and vision may be so you can see videos on our web page and you can see images and little blurbs of people around the Law School with their stories if you have a story to tell contact Tessa Siddhant because she's putting together the Humans at the Law School series we have lots of well-being initiatives including a fantastic group of students who are champions for well-being the student well-being group at the Law School whom you'll hear from a little bit and I'm sure you're welcome to join and they have mentoring programs and organized different events and study groups for students thank you very much so now I'd like to introduce Ella from AULS to introduce your student societies first of all a huge welcome up there is our line for law camp last year so you're about to get into that now welcome to Law School it's incredible that you're all here today you're going to have the next four or five or maybe six years of your life are about to be the best ever so thank you so much for coming along today and a huge congratulations on getting in as Naye said before it is a huge achievement and I remember the first year as being quite stressful and I'd love to say the stress stops here it doesn't quite there's always a bit of stress that comes with studying law but the fun begins it really really does so yeah AULSS is the Auckland University Law Student Society so our job is to look after you we put on lots of fun events so that you enjoy Law School we try and help you achieve the goals that you want we expose you to a range of different careers we put on educational workshops so that you can learn off our older students who have done really well and we just here for you anytime you have a concern or a question or you're not quite sure who to talk to you can come and talk to us and we'll help you or we'll put you in touch with the right people and I just want to echo what Julia said before grades I don't want to say grades aren't important because I've got lectures in the room but they definitely don't define you okay amazing careers and the piece of advice that I have is that you will exit Law School with a degree many times you will many times I've sort of been at the library and I've got up and I'm like that's it I'm never coming back but I always have and you will too and the most important thing aside from that degree that you will leave with is your friends and the people that you've met so get involved take every opportunity to meet as many people just pursue self-discovery in these four years and find out what it is that you're passionate about and what you want to do and yeah I think you'll have the best type of Law School possible so thank you very much also I just want to say our office is located in the student centre which you've probably all been to it's over the road from all the lecture theatres we're straight as you walk in the door and we have lots of tacky photos up like and so we have an open door policy so come down whenever you want also our executive is on the AULSS Facebook page so make sure you join the group on Facebook and make sure you join the Part 2 Law 2018 page because that's our main way of communicating with you after this head down to Law School it's always a bit of a sprint and be careful because there is a road and it is a bit of a hazard we nearly got knocked out on our way up hey Johnson and to add to that hazard there's actually a bit of like construction happening at the moment so be creative find your way down and yeah line up make sure you get your membership make sure you get your camp tickets and there's lots of cool merch available and you can mix and talk to the other student societies as well one more thing we do not have FPOS it's unavailable at the moment and up in KU there's an AMZ one and in the quad there's an ASB and a, what is it? a BNZ thanks so much, can't wait to meet you hey everyone I know everyone's like restless and you've been in here for two hours you're not actually going to sell tickets until the right time so just I'm Johnson I'm the equity officer I kind of work very closely with Hannah Wohlberg my main role as a student equity officer is to be kind of just another support person a lot of the time you don't know who to go to you don't know what to talk about you don't know who's in charge of what essentially what I am is the middle person I can either direct you in the right way help advocate for you I work a lot with AULSS and all the other groups to make sure everyone's interests are kind of well represented and well thought out one of my main with the equity officer because it's so fluid I can really kind of concentrate on what I really want to do so my main concentration for this year representation, minority representation for any obvious reason and also well being because at the end of the day like everyone else has said grades are not important but they're not as important as your own health everyone's going to go through a stage where you kind of sit in the day until 9pm stressed out and crying and then you're going to say to yourself this is not worth it I'm going to go through the next day to law school and do it all again so I'm kind of just another support person to talk to to say like if you have any problems I don't know who to talk to, I need an extension I've got this happening in my life, I've got that happening in my life I don't know who to talk to, I don't know what to do then come see me and I'll put you in the right direction but otherwise congratulations for getting in this is a very big feat and I hope you have a good time at law school thank you my name's Jane and I'm one of the co-directors for EJP and she's also a co-director so for all of you who don't know the EJP is the Equal Justice Project and we are pro bono charity run by students at the law school and our values are kind of include inclusivity and access to justice within university but also within our wider community so we have four teams which we'd love you to join and they include pro bono community communications and access and they just all work at different aspects in order to promote these values within our community if you are a social justice warrior or you've got your eyes set on Belgalee like we welcome every type of law student because we really feel like these values are ones that should be instilled in all law students so quick admin our information session is on Monday the 5th of March at 1pm at the law school and we'll post that on our Facebook page if you want to give that a like and we'll be closing applications a week after that so congratulations and hopefully we'll see you there Hi everyone, my name is Rachel and this is Charlie and we're here from the mooting society you've potentially seen us in first year with the first year moot but excitedly now that you've gotten to part two there is heaps more opportunities to get involved and we encourage you all to sign up and participate we help you develop your advocacy skills and really put into practice what you've learnt at the law school so far so our first event for the year is the pop-up moot this is the first time we've done this we've teamed up with the pop-up globe which I'm sure most of you guys have heard about so we're having some actors some of their actors come in to the law school they're going to perform the trial scene from the merchant of Venice and then we're going to have some of our mooters actors the lawyers and debate a legal problem so that'll be heaps of fun really encourage you guys to come along to that and then also the junior moot which is the first sort of formal part two moot that you can do that'll be in April so sign-ups are free and you can sign up at the same time as you sign up for AULSS cheers guys actually also here for the public policy club which isn't specifically a law club but it does tend to draw mass numbers of law students so I'm here to talk about it today so basically we're a non-partisan club which encourages students to get involved with politics we help students to make their mark encourage education and also provide opportunities of professional development in the sort of political and public sphere we have a broad range of events you potentially saw them last year we did what's it called the baby back benches so a public policy brief competition we've also got this year we're starting a political forum which will run every second Thursday so you can come along and there'll be a topic and you can discuss it openly with everyone there and also in the beginning of this year we're running an event around the end of life choice bill and we've got David Seymour coming in and then someone on the opposite side of the debate will discuss it openly and educate you all about that our values are impartiality, fairness inclusivity and access so no matter who you are we encourage you to get involved and we'll be in Albert Park for the club's day so come find out there hey everyone sorry I'll keep it short and sweet so my name is Anusha I'm from Salsa which is the South Asian Law Students Association and we're very excited for this year our next stuff planned our first event is next week Friday which is the Hawleyette Law School it's going to be a huge water fight with colour and hopefully some food as well it is completely free to join us so please come see us have a yarn, have some salsa and chips we're not Mexican but we do love a good salsa so yeah we'd love to see you guys and congratulations for being here Nefrica Gazelle wakes up it knows a mist run faster than the fastest lion will be killed and the lion wakes up it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or staff it doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle, when the sun comes up you better be running I'm Nadia, I lead ALSRC the Auckland Law School Running Club we're a casual club that caters to all fitness levels we're a casual club that caters to all fitness levels and we have twice weekly runs after lectures around Auckland City more details, check out our Facebook page and we'll be down at Law School after this so come say hi so guys, so my name is Sundarish and this is Mohammed and we are from the Law Association for International Students and we are basically a Law Association for International Students we do both social and academic events and so if you're like paying 40 grand a year tuition fees you should come hang out with us thank you Hi everyone, I'm Tariqa from Not Your Average Law Students or Niles for short obviously there's no such thing as an average law student but as you've heard people come to law school from all different walks of life with different experiences and through different paths so we have people who might have been working in a different career and want to change or people who've been raising a family and still have parenting responsibilities or caring responsibilities and other people who've just been doing other things with their life before they decide they want to be a lawyer and so Niles is here for those people who have those other life experiences and didn't follow that typical pathway of just coming to law school straight from high school we all understand that law school is really stressful so it helps to know that there's other people here who have similar experiences and understand the kind of pressure of trying to juggle law school with the other parts of life that you can't just put on hold while you've decided to return to study so Niles is about creating a way to make connections with those other people who understand what it's like if you get together during the year and one of the things that we've done and we'll do again this year is bring in guest speakers who've come to the law from different pathways so for anyone here who doesn't think they want to just go to a big firm and follow that kind of path into their career obviously we'd welcome you to come and learn about other things that you can do with your law degree after a few years of study so check out our Facebook group and I'm looking forward to meeting you Hi I'm Mike, I'm from Veritas and Veritas is a group of Christian law students and we get together because if you're a Christian and you're a law student we have quite a lot in common so we meet weekly in the law school and we've got some stellar Bible studies planned and I think as law students it'll be one of your best times in your life to get to understanding the Bible because we get quite good at understanding a text in light of its purpose sound familiar? so you don't have to be a Christian to come along and that's because the opportunities to openly and honestly discuss are really rare and we also host bigger events in the past we've hosted talks by prominent lawyers and judges but really Veritas is just an opportunity to take a break from the really highly competitive nature of law school make a few friends and sort of explore your faith so if you're interested we'll have a stool set up at law school after this and you can also like our Facebook page so that's Veritas Christians at Law School