 Ma kai wumaf hiyan leinr と j Zeitge par. Pa Kamami, pa Ma pa ma programme pakei to zari Ontara BAI R learnings pachana, kao stiais hait maile думātara. Pa nea lala, maile dar maile palatola. Peskaito atho gan una. So, sanar i pa i waga i tura. Pa hait maile kai waka amba. Dara, ka mba i mba i nagitao. Aata, aata, o kaisi. Tiga, te siala pa wana. Aata, te siala pa wana waka aata. Aata, o mba i mba i waka sila. Pa yna, kaino hana. Mba i waka maile kai waka. Masai mba i maila. Aata, tijai, ima aata. I guess a session this makes three hours might be three hours of your life You can't get back, but can I just encourage you please play attention in front of you is a survival pack I didn't get a survival pack, which probably explains why it takes me 10 years to do a four-year degree In there is a bottle or water bottle because we're actually going into the wilderness a musli bar as well as various survival guides put together by the student law centre as well as the various student associations Can I just also say we want to extend a huge thank you to you for choosing our faculty Thank you for studying with us and without you guys obviously They wouldn't be me at least I'm not on their salary bracket, but at least they won't be me So the more fees you guys get thank you very much the more pays that I get But I just quickly run through our program and then I'll pass it over to our professor Deputy Dean professor Susan what's extended a formal welcome, but today's program We're just going to hear from faculty then we'll also hear from Steven pink Who will go through the part 2 structure because we send lengthy emails that none of you guys read But he will break it down for us so we can all understand Then we'll hear from our course directors for the various different part 2 courses And then we'll also follow by study techniques with professor Warren Swain, and then we'll also have a little break There's an introductory lecture for law 298, which is a compulsory legal research and writing course And then we'll hear from our two representatives from the edge from the careers development service Kylie Ryan, he'll be doing well and being well as well as our careers representative Shannon rain We'll also be hearing from students The student services and they will be capping it off with a good old-fashioned barbecue All right, folks. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce our first speaker So if you can just please join me in welcoming professor Susan Watts The first thing I wanted to do was add the congratulations of everyone here to all of you It's actually quite some achievement as you know to get into Auckland Law School The places are really sought after and already everyone in this room has has achieved something very Significant by meeting the entry standards and being here So we're very glad that you're here and very pleased as Harry said that you've chosen us I can remember actually sitting where you all are sitting in 1982 when I was a new student at Auckland Law School And someone standing up the front and that person standing up the front said to all of us In this room our future High Court and Supreme Court judges Future partners in major law firms and looking at them and we all looked around the room at each other and thought really I wonder who amongst all the people here that will be and and it turned out I can tell you now it turned out to be true So there are people from my cohort who are judges who are senior partners in law firms, but also Simon Dallow who's a you know feeds the news on TV one There's cabinet ministers who are in the same cohort and currently there are cabinet ministers Who went to Auckland Law School? So many of you will go on to take roles in life major roles in law firms, but also generally in other Fields many of you will go into business or work for not for profits But many of you will take on leadership roles and one of the things that Gets fed back to us from people who have studied law at Auckland Law School Is that even if they are many of them practice law but for those who don't The extent to which the skills and the way of thinking That they learnt at law school carries them forward into many other careers and other Other enterprises and parts of life. So I think you'll find that you Some subjects at university you enjoy, but you sometimes come out and think well actually I enjoyed this I learned about this subject, but I didn't learn how to do something different But what you'll get from your law degree and particularly which I'll talk about in a minute from part two Is that you'll learn skills that you won't learn from any other Part of the university and which you wouldn't otherwise acquire and that's the skills of legal thinking and legal reasoning So this next period my lawyer at law school Part two will be the period when you really learn the skills of the trade How how to think and be like a lawyer? So I want to talk to you a little bit about the people who will be talking to you today I first want to introduce Stephen Pank who will be speaking to you after me now Stephen Pank is sort of the engine of the law school He's the person who keeps things running. He's been connected with the law school since 1984 And it's hard to imagine a law school the Auckland Law School without Stephen Pank here And I then also wanted to introduce the four people who are sitting over there my four colleagues Or all these four colleagues are the leaders of the part two courses They're all professors, which is the most senior academic rank that you can have and they're all leaders in various ways In their field, so I just wanted to briefly introduce them to you I wanted to introduce first sitting on the left Professor Julia told me now professor Julia told me Leads the criminal law course so the criminal law course which many of you if this is your beginning part two Will be taking this year Julia leads that course Julia as well as being a highly regarded scholar also participates in the wider wider environment in that she Chared the family violence death review committee that is actually leading to changes in our domestic violence law in New Zealand So here's someone who's one of your professors. There's also really making a difference in the wider world Then next to her is professor Joanna Manning now professor Joe Joanna Manning is leading the torts course And Joe if you get this month's Metro magazine, just as another example, and you turn to I think it's page 41 You'll see a picture of Joe Manning because Joe Manning has been part of the Cartwright Collective Which was involved in Drawing light on the unfortunate experiment at National Women's Hospital And that's been in the news recently if you've watched the Sunday programme or and Joe was one of the group that's Continued working to make sure that the sort of things that happened in the early 1980s with that experiment don't happen again So her area of research is medical law and health law and but again This is someone who takes their research and what they do into the wider world and they next to Professor Manning is professor Janet McLean Now professor Janet McLean is an internationally known scholar in public law. So if you travel to universities or in any part of the common law world people will know who professor Janet McLean is She's an internationally renowned scholar in her field of public law And we're very fortunate to have someone like professor professor McLean teaching and leading the part to public law course at Auckland Law School and then finally Sitting on the very right is professor Francis Dawson now many people When they think back about their time their first year in part two law at Auckland Law School They remember Francis Dawson and his lectures in contract law So last week Francis had lunch and he wouldn't tell you this but he had lunch with some judges And they talked about how what an impact Francis is the way Francis taught contract law had on them So it's a truly memorable lecture lecturer who is at the very core of how you understand What it is to be a lawyer and how to have what legal reasoning is What legal thinking is so again? We're fortunate that we have Francis who's leading our contract law course Francis was someone who was went into practice And was hugely successful But chose to come back here and lead the contract law course For Auckland Law School So I think we're just incredibly fortunate that the foundation courses Criminal law, torts law, public law and contract law are led by such for such fantastic people Who are true leaders in their respective fields So now I'm going to hand over to Steven Pink who's going to talk to you about some other matters to do with this year That you're and facing and I just want to wish you all good luck We have it's it's some Laura. It's something new. It's challenging Sometimes students find it stressful. There's there's help from everyone You'll never knock on anyone's door at the law school and find that it's not open if you have concerns So please take advantage of Of if you're feeling stressed Talk to people don't become stressed But actually treat this as a positive opportunity because this is something very exciting as you start on your journey To becoming trained lawyers Morning everyone Many of you I recognize from legal method classes from the last year or two and some of you I've got to know quite well through the admission process over recent months And in some cases over recent years So you've been congratulated by Harry On behalf of the faculty and by our deputy Dean and let me add my personal Congratulations to you for having made it The topic is said to be Planning part 2 the LLB structure I don't want to talk about that briefly and maybe dispel a couple of myths But I thought it might be more useful to tell you in some detail about the selection process How many competitors you faced and to know something about the cohort to which you belong So we'll have an analysis of this year's part 2 intake See so that you can identify yourself as amongst the people who surround you Each year we have to make a selection for part 2 because the demand for places greatly outstrips the supply And in recent years somewhere between 8 and 900 students have applied each year for the 300 or 380 as it was this last time around places that are available So you can see that the demand exceeds the supply by about a 2 to 1 ratio the number of places that have been allocated this year was Determined as some of you will recall only in October last year by the University Council In fact, it was in the very last week of classes in the second semester last year It was on the Wednesday of that week that the University Council decided to increase the part 2 intake numbers from 330 to 380 places so we had 50 additional places to allocate In our last legal method class at the end of the second semester last year We speculated on what that might mean in terms of the grade point average required for admission to part 2 and Because there were 50 additional places We thought that based on past experience particularly the last three or four years But the GPA was likely to fall a little it had been at 6.4 and we speculated that it might be around 6.2 It actually went up It went up to 6.5 and I'll show you what it has been over the last 30 years in a few minutes So spare a thought for those people who just below 6.5 Thought that they were likely to be selected and in fact haven't spare a thought for them because they would like to be sitting where you're now sitting Bear them in mind as you work through the rest of your law degree The consequences of having such a high entry standard are firstly that it gives rise to a lot of anxiety as well as competition for places And I know many of you were anxious when you were in part one And that anxiety sometimes manifested itself in positive ways and sometimes in less fortunate ways But it is also a recognition of the high standards that this law school has, the high entry standards which ultimately is going to be to your advantage in terms of your employment prospects To those of you who have worked terribly hard to get to this point, let me congratulate you on now being rewarded for your hard work And for those of you that have persisted and there are amongst you at least three people who have made it into law school on their third or subsequent attempt Then let me congratulate those people in particular for their persistence, their determination and the increase in their GPA that has allowed them finally to qualify All right, so who are we? Well, before we answer that question, let me just do what I said a moment ago and show you the great point average That's been required in each of the last 30 years for admission to part two and the number of places that have been available So when I was first associated with a law school in the mid 1980s, there were 200 places available in the second year of the law degree Or the first law examination as it was called, the first professional year, it followed an intermediate year in which students took six arts or science courses So there was no law in the first year of the law degree, six courses, a standard full time program at the time, six papers And they had to be in arts or science and they had to include two courses, two papers in a language subject or in philosophy The number of students taking law intermediate was about 400, so you can see that it was roughly half of those who completed the first year of the intermediate year who were allowed to progress with their law degrees And the average grade that was needed for selection at the time was about a B minus average or a GPA of four Now you can see the 200 available places in the mid 80s became 225 places in 1988 That's when we moved the legal system course which is law and society and legal method combined from second year into first year But despite the greater availability of places, the grade point average went up The 225 places were increased to 270 in 1991 But still the grade point average continued to climb despite the greater availability of places 300 places available from 2005 onwards But the GPA is now above the B plus threshold, 6.25 in the year 2005 And you can see it continued to increase up to 2010 where it peaked at 6.7 So that's getting closer to an A minus than a B plus And since that 6.7 peak in 2010 for the last five or six years it's leveled out So over the last five years when we had formally 300 places available But actually each year admitted rather more, usually somewhere around 3.25 to 3.30 So we oversubscribed by about 10% because we could actually squeeze 330 students into three streams of 110 It's been in the middle of the B plus to A minus range And then of course the council increased that intake to 380 But that's not 380 plus, it's a strict 380 So it's 50 additional places rather than 80 additional places as compared to the previous few years And as we've noted, the grade point average perhaps unexpectedly went up a little so 6.5 is what was required to guarantee you a place Now that's in terms of general admission to Part 2 Some students have been admitted with lower grade point averages under the various targeted admission schemes And we'll discuss those in a moment Who are we? Who are you? Well in fact, and we'll just magnify that a little We initially offered just before Christmas last year 382 places to domestic students And students who were just below 6.5 GPA were placed on a waitlist In case any of those 380 students should decline the offer Some did And so we were able to go to the waitlist and offer students on 6.4 a place Some students on 6.4, there were in fact 19 students who were waitlisted As students having accepted their place and enrolled then changed their minds and withdrew We were able to continue to access the waitlist And eventually everybody on the waitlist has been offered a place But it's a limited place So the last of you were admitted only in the last 10 days or so And you've been offered a place which is where you've been Well, where we've had a seat available basically So you might have expected to be doing criminal and public law this year And in fact you've been offered a torts and contract Or something other than what perhaps you were expecting But the advantage of having been admitted this year Is that you are now in a secure place And irrespective of your performance this year You won't have to compete again for a place in Part 2 So when you come to do the balance of Part 2 next year If you're not doing the whole of it this year Then your place is guaranteed And you will in fact have first choice of the courses And streams before the incoming students next year So 378 is the number that we've actually ended up with I have to some students have withdrawn And in addition there are six international students So a total late intake of 384 Typically in our intake We have between 40 and 50 graduates This year there are only 25 So the demand by graduates for admission Has dropped a little Or at least the demand for admission By graduates with sufficiently high grade point averages Has dropped Graduates require the same GPA as undergraduates The seven transferring students One of them is a student Who has just completed last year Part 1 At another New Zealand law school And is transferring to Auckland The other six are students who were already In Part 2 at another law school But because of the different degree structures They haven't yet covered all of our Part 2 requirements So for example somebody who's at AUT Does not do criminal law in Part 2 But in Part 3 of the degree So if they've done AUT's Part 2 And they want to transfer to us They still have criminal law to do Criminal law has restricted numbers Of six places that are available For transferring Part 2 students And as you can see We have filled those six Plus the one other transferring student Who had only just completed Part 1 Most students are doing conjoint degrees So you'll see that the most popular Combination is arts and law 40% of students Just over a quarter of you Are doing commerce and law conjointly And there are small numbers of students Doing the various other combinations Engineering and law Music and law For the very first time Has been introduced this year And there is one student doing that combo Property and law And science and law So arts, commerce, science Of the three most popular in that order And then comparatively small numbers Than the others And the number of students doing A single LLB Is 94 or just on one quarter Of the cohort This information is drawn from SSO And its binary allows Only two choices when it comes to gender So 243 Of the 384 students Have identified as female And you'll see that that is close To two thirds of the intake Or just over 63% this year Down a little from the 68% in 2016 But if you average it out Over the last four years You can see that women students Have been increasing in numbers As a proportion of the intake And now roughly two thirds of the intake And men 141 Of the 384 Or 36.7% And the comparative figures are there For the last three years When it comes to ethnicity Then from the statistical data 156 people Have identified as pākehā New Zealand European 123 are Asian 44 Maori 38 Pacific Minority groups And two students who are not quite sure Where they belong They belong in the Auckland Law School But in which ethnic group Is yet to be decided Total of 384 Now it's interesting If you look at the first line That the proportion Of pākehā students Has been steadily decreasing And the percentage of Asian In particular has been increasing And that the stereotype Of the white male Lawyer Or law student Is now defied And a law student Is more likely to be an Asian woman Than a pākehā man As I said We have a number of targeted Admission schemes Or processes For students with disabilities For students with refugee backgrounds Or particular hardship For students transferring from part 2 At other New Zealand law schools As I've already mentioned For students from low socio-economic backgrounds For Maori students And for Pacific students The reasons for having targeted Admission schemes include Addressing disadvantage Raw modelling Encouraging diversity And reflecting society And in particular The numbers of places That is set aside For Pacific students Are determined By the number of people In the general community Who identify as Maori and Pacific So that the law schools hope Is that we might reflect In our intake The percentage of Maori and Pacific people That there are In society generally And you'll see that From those figures That 11.5% Maori And just on 10% Pacific Which is an increase From the previous years Don't quite meet The proportions of people In the general community But we're heading in the right direction All right, the LLB structure And I won't be very long about this And most of you are familiar with it already In the handbook which you've got In your pack On page 11 There is this diagram And the comment that I want to make About the structure of the LLB Is that it is a professional degree It is a professional degree And it is structured rather differently From the more general bachelor's degree Such as the BA, the BCOM, the BSE The BPROP So there is no major in law There is no need to specialise In your law degree You may if you wish But there is no obligation to do so Your major Or your specialisation Or your plan Is law The law degree consists of a mix Of compulsory and elective law courses So the compulsory ones are the blue And the elective are the red And you'll see that part two Consists entirely of compulsory courses So legal research, writing Communication, 10-point course Is the first one you must take Whatever else you're doing You need to be enrolled in law 298 And then there are criminal, public Torts and contract law Each weighted at 30 points So the points total for part two Is actually 130 Part three is a mix 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 Consists entirely of elective courses So the points totals are for parts one To four respectively 120, 130, 120 and 110 So what that indicates is that Part two is particularly heavy But the relief comes at the end Of the degree where part four Having only 110 points means that The overall total is 480 Four years of 120 on average As for the elective courses You don't take a specific Number of courses But you take a number of points That come in different weightings So we have large, medium, small And you can have fries if you want 20, 15 and 10 points respectively Because part four consists only Of elective courses And each year there are about 50 To choose from Some in summer school Four or five typically Others in the first semester And in the second semester It is possible in that final part Of the degree to go on exchange And roughly one-fifth of our Part four students do So we have a number of Specific exchange agreements With other law schools around the world And then there are all the general University to university Student exchange agreements That the University of Auckland participates in And so there are about a hundred Possibilities for you to do Some of your study overseas Have an OE while you are still studying Get some credit for the courses That you've done in another jurisdiction Have access to the elective courses Offered by a partner law school overseas And all within the time frame For a LLB degree In respect of Conjuring degree students And that's most of you The structure is there And I won't go through it in detail But I do want to point out Right at the top that it says sample So while some students beginning Part two, as most of you are doing Take criminal law in public Alongside legal research writing And communication It is not necessary to do so And indeed some of you Have been denied that opportunity Because by the time you came To a law you might have found That it was already full You're doing something else instead That is not a concern As long as you're doing legal Research writing and communication And at least one other course Then your enrolment is entirely Ballet And there is no need to be concerned That you haven't adhered To this particular arrangement It is only one of many possibilities Let's say this year You are doing criminal, public And contract And the only course you are not doing Is taught To this arrangement strictly You've got a little more law in there Than most conjoint students Does that mean next year You can do only the remaining Course for Part two law? No, it doesn't You don't have to have completed Part two to be able to start Part three So that's the other myth That I wanted to dispel One myth is that you must Adhere to the structure You don't You haven't too And the other is that It is possible to be completing One part of the degree And starting on the next part So don't feel that You're going to have to spend Two years completing Part two Before you get access To the Part three courses If you're a conjoint degree student The only other thing That I wanted to mention Which is just something For you to bear in mind And possibly aspire to Is the Honours degree So the Honours degree in law Is quite different From Honours degrees In other faculties Generally throughout the university There are two models So in engineering for example You complete a bachelor's degree A four-year degree with Honours If your grades are sufficiently high In most faculties The Honours a year Comprises 120 additional points Over and above The basic bachelor's degree So a three-year BA 120 points beyond the BA For BA Honours In those courses Those 120 points are at The 700 or the postgraduate level Similarly with B.Com Honours B.Sc Honours A whole extra year On top of the B.Com Or the B.Sc Law Honours Because lawyers Always do things differently Is in a category all of its own It's sui generis That is to say It requires 60 additional points Not 120 They are at the 700 level And it is typical that students Do 20 of those points In part three of their degree An Honours seminar course Waited as 20 points And a dissertation So that's a piece of original research Of resulting in 15,000 or so Words At the end of part four One in the summer Following the completion of part four Or in the first semester Of the year following So it's a half a year's extra work But it can actually be squeezed Into the standard timeframe You can enter the Honours program As early as the end of part two So long as at the end of part two Your overall average on your law courses Is at least a B+. So taking into account Your law and society result Your legal method result And your grades for criminal, Public, torts and contract B+, average, 75% average Then you'll be invited to transfer To the Honours program And finally Because I've exceeded my time Just some housekeeping matters I won't run through them in detail But just to alert you in the handbook To the information, particularly The academic information for students That's set out on pages 30 to 39 Warren Swain will alert you To some particular detail within there And turning back to page 22 You will see identified the Directors of the All of the courses in the law school Including the part two courses And it is my pleasure now to ask the first of those To come and address you about criminal law Julia, thank you. Hi, I'm Julia Tommy So I'm the course director for criminal law And I'm going to start by Just doing a little exercise To refocus our attention Might take a little bit of courage I'm going to ask Those of you in this room Who have committed a crime To put your hands up Gosh, what an unusual Cohorted young people Only a small number Have committed crimes That means there are people in this room Who have never done one of the following things They've never smoked marijuana Or taken ecstasy Or some other designer drugs And gone to a dance party They have never committed theft They have never taken something Without someone's permission Knowing that they plan to use And am I damaged it Even if they hope they don't And intend to return it They have never assaulted someone Contacted someone else's body Without their consent Or threatened to do so They have never used indecent Or offensive words in a public place In other words, swore They have never attempted to bring Into hatred, contempt Or psyched disaffection Against Her Majesty Or the Government of New Zealand They have never urinated In a public place Other than a public toilet I'm willing to bet About 60% of the people in this room Haven't done that They've never tried And failed to do any of those things That amounts to the law of attempt Criminal law of attempt So basically what this exercise tells us Is that pretty much all of us commit crimes Absolutely normal behaviour But most of us have lives that insulate us From having the label criminal attached to us The other thing it tells us Is that most offending doesn't come to the attention Of authorities It's what we call the dark figure of crime So looking at some of those issues Is a tiny part of the criminal law course Why do people commit crimes Or why aren't most of us caught And processed through the criminal justice system But it's not the main focus of this course In this course we look at the criminal offences themselves We take a selection of them And we teach you how to analyse them What do you need to prove To establish criminal liability What are the general defences What are some of the different ways In which you can be a criminal Because the reality is You don't just have to do it If you encourage your mate to urinate In a public place You're actually guilty as a party By inciting their offending So we look at those particular issues The criminal law itself In this course primarily You will have three lectures a week You're divided into two streams One is taught by myself And the other is taught by Dr Fleur Te Aho Who has just come to us from The Australian National University Where she's completed her PhD I'm pretty excited about having Fleur on board Fleur comes with a background In indigenous rights and human rights Which is a really important lens To place on this particular subject So you'll have three lectures a week You will do eight tutorials Small group tutorials over the course of the year In fortnightly rounds And they will start the week commencing The 13th of March You will have to complete Over the course of the year A court observation A mid-term test in semester one A tutorial essay in semester two And a final examination Of the year And you will be given grades For your tutorial participation I'm going to finish By just reading a letter That I received from one of our alumni In 2012 So for years I was the editor Of our alumni magazine, Eden Crescent When you graduate from this institution It will pursue you wherever you go In the world And find you containing information About us To about more than 8,000 alumni All over the world And This was in 2012 I received a letter congratulating me On the 2012 edition of Eden Crescent Dear Julia I write to compliment you on the 2012 edition Of Eden Crescent And then the author goes on to talk about The different articles and how much He enjoyed them. Thank you Julia An editorial support team much appreciated Unfortunately for me Currently in custody at Mount Eden A waiting trial and a raft of charges Involving alleged financial impropriety And he goes on to talk about Basically what he's been accused of And asking for back issues of Eden Crescent The paucity of reading material Here is just bad The point of that is Not only might this degree be of value To you in your professional career It may actually be of great value To you in this particular course Of your professional life Sorry folks that was actually me That was the author of that letter Not just that I've got to admit That I'm currently being pursued for parking Finds as well as child support So next up we're just actually going to Skip public And we're actually just going to jump to Torts with Professor Joanna Manning I work with a bunch of ladies And in Torts you'll realise That Torts is Is infliction of emotional distress That was an assault Tena koutou Tena koutou Welcome I'm Joe Manning I'm the course director Of the Torts course And You'll see me The first week of the semester I'll be teaching both streams of Torts I'm not going to congratulate you Again I think you're all getting very big heads And you'll have trouble getting out the doors Just remember with The privilege comes responsibility You'll have responsibility to your Communities For having the privilege of studying A law degree But in addition I'd like to suggest To you that your Horrible Year is over Part 1 You're in now It's time to really start to enjoy Your legal studies And also Week after next I'm going to dinner with a group of friends Who all sat Where you're sitting now I was educated at this law school And I still keep in touch with these friends I don't want you to do the maths But over 30 years We've been meeting each other And so it's time To get to know each other And to start enjoying The other students Who are in your classes And in your tutorials So, yeah Form some networks Form some friendships and those Some of the most important friendships In your lives will be made here At law school So forget about being competitive It's time to get supportive Supportive of each other You'll find that much more fulfilling Way to go And it'll make for a happier time here For many people their years At law school are the happiest Times of their lives It's a very positive Experience in that You're learning and you're growing It's busy But it should Be enjoyable And if it's not You want to start asking Why that is Okay, so As I say, you'll see me Next week Torts, what is torts? Torts is the study Of civil wrongs It's a private law subject And it's part Of the law of civil obligation And it covers Number of personal wrongs Not including Breacher contract That can be compensated for By an award of damages As well as other remedies It's a Case law heavy subject So The Case book is available For you to go and purchase At the university bookshop And in it there'll be extracts From court decisions And so one of the things That we really want To teach you this year Is legal reasoning You did some of it In your legal method course So one of the very best things You can do and commit to Is where possible I know that life can get In the way But where possible you should Need for class Because That's just a mileage thing The more you do it Sometimes you have to tie yourself To the chair and lock the fridge In order to do your reading For class But it gets easier and easier And you start to know What you're looking for Because it's not just about Learning content Information Well, you do torts this year Next year that information Will already be getting out of date So you need to know How to stay current How to find and read The latest court decisions That come out after you've Finished your torts course So number one message Where possible read for class The more you do it The more you're going to enjoy it I promise you that So as I say, torts is a study Of a number of civil wrongs The key one is negligence Which is the everyday stuff Of a lawyer And you will be doing that With my colleague Hannah Willberg later on In the first semester Julia covered pretty much The torts course is similar Three lectures per week Those lectures are not compulsory But tutorials, attendance That tutorials is In torts, there's a participation Component Or mark Attached to it And during the tutorial program You will get experience For the first time in doing A moot, a torts moot So you'll all be assigned to do a moot By your tutors And they will explain how that works So that'll be your first opportunity To exercise Those nascent advocacy skills And it's an introduction To the general mooting Programme later In the degree So there's eight rounds of tutorials Many of you will have signed up For tutorials on canvas already Also this year For the first time Given that we're a bigger group Of 380 students In two big streams We're introducing some clinics In torts There'll be four or five clinics Those aren't compulsory But you're strongly encouraged To attend those They'll be in smaller groups And they will be led by A new assistant lecturer Who we're very excited to join The torts team, Nikki Chamberlain And those will be scheduled Close to the times That you have Pieces of work for the course Like the test Or the essay And for exam preparation So there'll be more information About those clinics later on Okay, I think that's all I have Thank you Welcome, and I'll see you all next week Thanks Joe, Joe and I studied together So don't be too phased When she pushed me We just wanted to demonstrate what a battery looks like Or an assault Professor Janet McLean Who will be taking public law Which is 211 Law 211 And you'll be discussing various aspects of public law So i.e. if we wanted to build a war between us And the AUT law school Thank you Tena koutou, tena koutou Welcome Very lovely to see you here I'm the public face of public law I'm the course director this year We have a team taught program I won't be seeing you till the second semester When I come in To teach bills of rights and judicial review And holding politicians accountable We're going to lead off With Professor Bruce Harris Who's going to introduce you to public law To our origins here And Aotearoa, New Zealand And to how we govern ourselves Now public law It's fair to say We can't boast urinating in the street We can't boast battery We're thought of as being The boring public law course The boring part 2 course That you have to get through And I'll tell you why we're considered boring It's a complete misconception of course It's because we talk about The rules of the game We talk about how Who rules us How we rule ourselves How we hold our rulers accountable We ask questions like How a rule or does law rule And most of the time The rules just happen And they're like wallpaper You don't notice because the rule's already there In fact, a friend of mine Told me a story He was a judges clerk Working in Australia He was in a very boring court case That was about two rival Business competitors And the case went on And on The day was hot The Barristers spoke slowly For the stenographer They repeated themselves He thought, am I in the wrong job? At lunchtime He watched CNN It was a story about His home country His birth, Greece It involved a dispute Between two rival business competitors They were gunning each other Down in the street He went back to court And he said, order Law This is a luxury That we've taken for granted This is a privilege To be in a place Where there are rules Where there is certainty Where people can plan And where the change of government Doesn't mean your life, your business Your world is over Now we're living In a world that's just Say where There are interesting Times Where things are changing Where unprecedented things are happening Where constitutions are tested I defy you To think that public law is Boring So we're going to face An election year this year Um I want to talk about Human rights Holding politicians accountable Public order Self-determination For the Indigenous people of this country But also for all of us How do we rule ourselves? Okay So this is quite a political cause But it's also about law And we're going to be building On the legal skills that you Were introduced to last year And in public law in particular The bits that are indented That you tend not to read That is, the statutes Will be really important So our emphasis is going to be On principle And statutes How we work this out together The reasoning, the principles That are throughout our constitution Do we even have a constitution In New Zealand It's text-based It's argument-based And it's not about rote learning So come prepared to face new problems And to have a little bit About passion About why public law Or the wallpaper of order That we take for granted Might be important One last thing One nuts and bolts thing It's only mentioned today You've got too much in your heads We're telling you too much But we'll run the same way as most Of the other courses Three lectures a week Eight tutorials Our public law opinion Is already online on canvas It's during the second half It's completely self-directed learning We won't be lecturing on judicial review Before you have to answer The public law opinion Is compulsory for you to sit the exam So that's one difference Between public law and the other Courses this year So I really look forward to seeing you in the second half Any questions for me About the first half too Kia ora ka And for our final speaker, he's a son of West Auckland Everyone give it up without the mullet Francis Dawson Good morning I am the course director Of contracts It's a court concept It's like the great high priest I show you Where the light is I direct you towards the light But I'm really Rather like a head gardener The garden has to be tilt And you have to do the hard work Of Actually getting to understand About the subject As you would expect Your contracts is about enforceable Agreements And the way we learn that Is to go through Carefully about 200 cases The cases are in the case book The first 100 or so are in here And The task is not As in thoughts That you've been directed Try and read your cases That won't do at all You must read your cases And the only way To really understand the subject Is to read every case Three times And that's not three times in one go It's three different times And what you'll find is It's the third time That the points just Drop into place Now our objective As the teachers Is to Expose you To 200 Real-life events So that when you are Asked by clients What do I do here You will have A response Because these are the leading cases You do this You'll find that in practice In real life The points don't come nicely packaged The law in folks and beer Which is one of the cases in the book They come with a client Being exposed to a point in the middle Of a hard negotiation A document will be slipped across the table And it'll be passed down to you As council And your client will say Do we accept this proposition or not Now you have immediately To isolate the significance of that clause And how it will work For your deal This is Anticipating here That you're a commercial lawyer And In the middle of a deal You'll find that contracts Is at the base of every Significant part of law It's the heart of property law It's the heart of banking law It's the heart of corporate And M&A law It is the most interesting Subject of the fall By a mile And Sorry? I haven't even got going yet I was once asked What do you think of the other subjects And I Explained well I thought That public law was quite important Crimes You had to deal with if You know you were exposed And you're in trouble Torts well you might come across That once or twice But contracts You dealt with all the time Five times a day Every moment of the day And a student said to me No Francis you haven't got it at all This is the way that you should look at it Public law is like marching music Crimes like punk rock Torts is like modern jazz But contracts That's Mozart You can see from the style of my dress That I'm slightly old fashioned I did this about 40 years ago last time And I'm pleased to say that All three Susan, Julia And Joe were students of mine Long time ago So despite Despite the fact that we all look like Peter Pan It's not true Now I do want to leave you with one Real Really important point And that is you must read your cases Right three times Buy the book And start reading It's not going to be fun Don't think of that it's not It's going to be a grind But you will find it Intellectually challenging And you will find it Intellectually interesting Won't have the drama of crimes Won't have the drama of public law Won't have the drama of torts But it'll be incredibly satisfying We have a test In the end of this term For 30% It's a plus-age We have an opinion of 10% We have an opinion of 10% We have an opinion of 10% And we have the unequal struggle At the end of October or November The final exam For either 100% Or 60% if you've done well And you're carrying good grades over Right so Work hard Towards that Read your cases three times I'll leave you I won't see you till The end of This semester We're going to have three Teachers this semester And two next semester We'll have A first bracket of five weeks Second bracket of six weeks And then I'll take over for ten weeks Make sure that you get The previous Stuff out of the way And we get on to Right lines and right thinking So Listen To Mozart to get in the The swim of things And Very well done for getting in here I look forward to the privilege Of lecturing you Thank you to the High Priest Francis Dawson Make sure that I'll send out regards to Pontius Pilate as well Bring your tithings, a.k.a. your readings To the contract temple And see the water Can I get an amen? Next up we have Professor Warren Swain Before we do, I know we've just got some people If you can turn to the president next to you And say congratulations Take a chance to meet your president And I want you to give the president In front of you a high five You've got all five fingers Awesome folks Thank you very much I just done that because I saw A back row or sleeping When Francis was talking But not to worry Next up we've got a Professor Warren Swain Professor Warren Swain Who will be running through study techniques As well as just touching on our tutorials If you can please join me and welcome me Professor Warren Swain Welcome to everybody I have the Dubious pleasure Of the graveyard slot We've been sat here for an hour already So I will be quite brief I would though take issue With Professor Dawson I also teach contract I would say contract law is more bark Than moatsart Bark being a superior Composer by a long way To moatsart But my name is Professor Warren Swain My capacity not as a contract lecturer But as the Associate Dean Academic And teaching and learning Which is a rather long title I make no comment on that But it does make me responsible For undergraduate teaching And assessment Those of you studying contract law Which will be a small number Of you as most of you will be doing Criminal and public Will see me in the first six weeks Before Easter I should note six weeks are not Five I think we lost a week with Francis Somewhere I'm here though today To talk very briefly About study techniques And tutorials I'll begin with the great English poet W. H. Orden Who wrote a poem Wrote many great poems But one of which is The poem law is like love In which he contrasted The different senses of law The law of nature The law of religion etc He devoted a verse of that Poem to law of the sort That you will study Law says the judge As he looks 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 little About the idea of love So can't comment On whether the comparison Is a valid one But it's worth reflecting On the way in which The judge in Orden's Poem presents the law As something certain Something definite In many ways it's the same way That lay people may think About the law as a set Of very clear legal rules That are easy to apply As you will realise After studying law in part one The truth is rather more complicated Than that The law is often contradictory Judges in different cases Or even sometimes In the same case Say different things They may reach the same result For quite different reasons Well how do you go about making Sense of this complexity Well I've talked to all Of the course directors from part two Who you've just heard from And I'll no doubt repeat Some of the things that they say But it won't hurt to repeat them They all identified for me What they thought was important About studying law And to which I've added My own thoughts It has to be said that Between us we have rather Lot of experience of teaching Of law More than any of us care to remember But I would hazard a guess It's significantly more than a century Combined Which is rather a frightening thought So Lesson number one perhaps As emphasised quite rightly by Professor Dawson Is the importance of the case law You need to read the cases As Francis rightly said Not just aim to read them Merely having a case book Doesn't mean that somehow The cases will Get into your mind by osmosis Even if you do not Understand the case The first time you should read it again The key really is not to give up Reading cases actually Honestly becomes easier But it takes practice Like anything The more you do it the easier it gets The same is true Of statutes that Professor McLean mentioned Students are frightened of statutes For some reason But again It's important Not to be frightened Though they will cause you some frustration As indeed they do experience Lawyers No one of course at this stage Is a fully formed lawyer So you shouldn't expect too much Of yourselves You mustn't expect to run before You can walk it all takes time And this is why the part two Courses span two semesters It's important to bear that in mind Because things build Cumulatively So don't get despondent If the whole thing doesn't make sense To you after one lecture What is the purpose of the lectures The lectures are designed To give the subject matter Some structure They are an introduction to crucial ideas They're emphatically not The whole of your learning You have responsibility For your own learning Which means reading the cases As Francis quite rightly said Before the lectures And doing the reading for tutorials There are some expectations About the work That you should be putting into your law degree Which I'll just roughly outline But it depends on how many credits A course is worth But it's a rough rule of thumb For every hour spent in class You should be working for three hours Outside of it And it's this time Actually that is critical To doing well In the subject But where do we start from Well, we start by If you're sensible attending the lectures But bear in mind That it's only possible To recall about 20% Of what you hear Or even less I'm sure from this morning You'll remember the comment about Mozart That's for sure But many of the details About assessment etc You may well not It's tempting to let Your mind wander And go on to Facebook And send emails I understand that I sit on very many Important university committees And many of them are boring It's very tempting to use Those times to send emails You should though Try and resist that temptation Lawyers really have to learn The skill of concentration This was evident to me In another university I used to judge mooting Finals with those who Were proper judges And the attention And the concentration of those people Was quite spectacular I would sat there doodling On my pad And my mind was wondering And they would be able To concentrate It's a skill that is important To get to grips with Well How do you remember what's said? Well You need to develop the skill of taking notes The trick lies In identifying what's important It's a vital skill this And it's a vital skill for lawyers I won't go into detail About all the research On learning except to say That it's important To try and be an active learner Well what is being an active learner? Well it's trying to engage With the content And the first stage of engaging With the content is identifying What's important What are the facts of the case That are critical To explaining the outcome Which part of the judgement Is the key part of the reasoning But active learning Involves putting your own order On the materials It means that you should review Your notes after the lecture Alongside your case book And textbook reading A word of advice here You shouldn't leave All of this process To just before a test or an exam It needs to be ongoing It needs to start From the first class The best way to learn Is to read and reflect Many students Find it useful to form Study groups I strongly Advise you to do so If you can What do we do to help you With this process? Firstly It's our aim to provide you With some of the skills required To be a good lawyer And indeed a good law student I don't here assume That all of you are going to legal practice The degree of course opens up A whole range of opportunities You are now in part 2 And the director Of legal writing, Dr Hood Will tell you about that course Shortly, but that is A key part of Giving you assistance in learning How to be a good lawyer In that the course will teach you A great deal about Different kinds of legal writing And how to express Yourself in a lawyerly fashion We also put on tutorials These are Important In that they contribute Towards your final grade But that isn't actually The most important reason to attend Tutorials are designed To help you solve problems Legal problems Which is very good practice For the examination But as Professor Dawson pointed out The life of lawyers Is about solving problems And this is a start to the process And there are 4 tutorials A semester or 18 Total For those of you Who'll be the minority taking Tort and contract this year As Professor Manning mentioned We are piloting law clinics Again these are not compulsory But I urge you to attend These will provide opportunities To go over the material And maybe address things That you don't understand It's important to Remember That there's some law That everyone struggles to understand Even And perhaps especially Some judges Bits of law are difficult But so you should take Every opportunity amongst yourselves And by going to tutorials Or if they apply clinics To work through legal Questions You can never have too much practice And the more you do The easier it becomes But I would also End with a plea That you should make the most Of university Working for a degree is important Everything As somebody who's spent Their entire life at his desk I would Strongly urge you that That isn't a good lifestyle choice Your degree shouldn't just be about Working There are lots of other opportunities And you'll hear later from the Student Societies Which are very active And you'll also hear about Really a question of balance I'd like to just finish By thanking you all For listening, especially as I was right at the end And wish you all An enjoyable part To your degree Thanks very much Thank you Professor Warren Sorry guys, Sue are we introducing the team now? When we get back from the break Now? After the break I guess this whole programme And it's the break So if you can just look at the clock It's 20 past, if we could just have everyone here Just before quarter to 11 After I quarter to 12 will be great And thanks very much for your attention Just out of interest has anyone been to Samoa? Congratulations, blessed The rest of you shame on yours Look folks, I've just come from Samoa A bit homesick at the moment But I know we're just I'm just going to give you what we call Aunga A lot of exercise just to get us up and running For the next segment So how it goes is basically like this Mili, so if I call Mili everyone just Mili is like rub, so rub Mili, don't rub the person in front of you Just rub So Mili when I call Batiya, well it's one clap So Batiya, noa Batiya See you don't listen, just testing Fail the first time Noa Batiya is two claps And then I go hei hei Everyone says ho Not ho, you're not from Ponson B And forgive me Oh forgive those who are from Ponson B Okay so really Mili Batiya Noa Batiya Hei hei And then we go tiger Everyone what does a tiger make? Okay so really so tiger Okay come on man what tiger is there A tiger from AUT I want a real tiger from AUT So ready, tiger Buffalo Okay So let's do this together Mili, Mili, Mili Batiya Hei hei Tiger Buffalo So when you approach a Samu you go Mili, Mili And they might just punch you because you're rubbing them Okay folks so just take a seat Next up I'm just going to introduce our team Our student centre team And before I do So are they going to introduce each other Or will I just Alright so I hope you guys have a wonderful break I'd just like to welcome those who've just joined us Punctuality is a key thing If you don't come in on time you'll miss out And you'll have to put up with warren swing Okay so Our student centre I'd like to introduce our manager Her name is Sarantika She's over here, she's our student centre manager On the side she likes to breed dogs And she has a canine by the name Oscar and also Loves to take zumba classes On her inside Oh sorry to your left is Emily McGowan Who is our student academic and support advisor In terms of extensions This is the person that you want to bring Oh talk to So come with gifts Obviously, bribery is alive and well Corruption is perfectly accepted at the student Centre And Emily obviously looks after the undergraduate Anything to do with undergraduate studies As well as our equity programs I'm Harry I look after the Pacific students as well as Any other matters To Emily's right Is Angela Vaai, she is the postgraduate Advisor She's a full-time Netflix alcoholic Sorry Netflix, she's always watching Netflix Does no work whatsoever But it just happens to be part of our team We've also got Martina as well She's a student academic and support advisor Also works part-time for Trip Advisor Because they're travelling Around the globe with no leave Next up we have Catherine Arona Who is the paofina Māori She's also, she looks after our Pacific Oh sorry our Māori students Unfortunately at least she didn't make Rio She lost out to Lisa Carrington in the trials But she loves to row Who has just come back from Hong Kong Also works for BuzzFeed food If you want any food tips this is our girl to go to She's also the part one advisor So I mean that's not going to You're not going to need to see her Unless you've got a cousin who's repeating it Or like me three times when Stephen said that I was like yes that's me repeated three times And we've also got Tessa Who is also a student support and experience advisor Tessa draws us from engineering So if you've got some engineering students as well If you wish to feel free to touch base with Tessa And also pick your brains Also got Lisa here Or Lisa's obviously not here because obviously The reception will be open But she's the person that will be obviously dealing And processing with all your assignments Folks can I just say one thing Poor planning on your part does not constitute An emergency on our part And as you can see I work with a bunch of ladies Who always torture me so please don't give them grief If you haven't got any extensions or assignments Uncomplete but just make sure that We are fresh poor of course should you need Absolutely anything So I just want you guys to join me in thanking these wonderful ladies Oh ladies Give it up for the Spice Girls Yeah well I haven't wow Be which them here Cool so next up we have Our introductory lecture For two Law 298 So I've just got to Introduce Our friends from Law 298 If they say That contractors moats up Then we've got two Of Destiny's Child here Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland No one remembers Michelle anyway She's just the third girl dancing at the back So everyone give it up for Dr Ella Good morning everyone It's awesome to see you all here I'm sure everyone else has already congratulated you But for me congratulations On getting into Law School It is a huge achievement And we're really thrilled to have you here So Stephanie Carr who's down here And we'll pop up in a minute and I are here to talk to you About Law 298 Or Legal Research Writing and Communication I realise the title isn't One of the sexiest titles around town And it's not necessarily the subject That will make your socks roll up and down Or yeah But it is a really important subject And we hope a really enjoyable one It's fairly new in the Law School So the top US And Australian Law Schools Have for a number of decades now Taught Legal Research Writing And Communication Courses And we've been a little bit behind the H4 But over the last few years The Law School has done a lot of work Talking to students Also talking to people in the legal profession So partners in law firms Jedges, people in small Practising firms About what it is we need to be doing More of Is both for Law School And for what comes beyond that And the thing that came back repeatedly Was that we really need to do better At giving you the fundamental skills In research writing And communication So we developed this course Which we started for the first time last year And it went really well And we got some fantastic feedback So a lot of the older students Who missed out on doing this course Constantly say to us We wish that we'd had this And we had this opportunity to learn these things And the students who went through it last year Were really positive about it They found that it really set them up well For the assignments that they have to do In other courses at Law School But also those students who are doing part-time work In law firms Or other businesses Out and about Repeaterly got feedback from people In their workplace That the quality of their work had gone up significantly Of another great year And that you guys get a lot out of this subject Now, in terms of slides working Alright So it's a 10-point course And it goes for the entire year And as you can see We're going to be covering legal research writing Communication, also a little bit of wellbeing In Law School Obviously a lot of your lectures Are going to be in really, really big classes In Law 2.9.8 Are going to be in classes of just 10 to 12 people And that's partly so that you can get Really good interaction With your teachers And get a lot of feedback from them But it's also so that you get a chance To actually get to know some people In your year level and get, hopefully Some really great friendships And meaningful connections with others Just to give you a very quick overview The year starts With you doing legal research So for your first three and a half classes You're going to be in the Law Library And in particular in the Computer Lab In the Law Library And the classes are going to be run By the Law Librarians headed up by Stephanie She's going to talk to you more about The research classes in a minute But they'll be focusing on helping you Find case law, legislation, books, journals Those kind of things Halfway through the fourth class For Law 2.9.8 The library sessions will come to an end And you'll be introduced to your legal writing Instructors And they're the people who will be taking you For the rest of the year I'll talk a little bit more about The writing program After Steph's talked about research But basically we have a really great program That introduces you to a whole range Of different forms of legal writing And really focuses on getting You up to speed With the various techniques You need to know I realise many of you will be excellent You will have done extraordinarily well When writing in high school And in your Part 1 papers Law school requires Slightly different writing skills And techniques So no matter where you are With your level of writing I think you're going to get a lot out of this part of the course At the end of it all Final two classes you do legal communication And for this we focus on Negotiations And learning how to negotiate If you become lawyers You'll have to use a whole range Of different oral communication skills You may have to stand up in courtrooms You may be involved in mediations But the thing that you probably find That you will do the most Is negotiate And speaking to a friend of mine Who's a barrister the other day And she's a top barrister And is in court all the time But she said that she reckons about 90% Of her workload Is actually negotiating Whether that's with clients And trying to get them to agree And work on something that's going to work for them Whether it's working with the other side And other lawyers or with judges So it's a really, really important skill If you have absolutely no intention of being a lawyer I completely understand This part of the course will still be useful for you We teach you the Harvard style Of negotiation Which is something that applies in the legal field But it also applies in business And governance And can be very helpful dealing with difficult partners As well So I'm going to come back in a minute And talk to you more about all of this But for now I'm going to hand over to Stephanie So she can have a chat about the legal research Part of the course Kia ora everyone and congratulations I'm here into part two So here's me It's probably a few years back now But I'm your legal research coordinator You can call me Steph But my email address is probably best If you contact Davis At Auckland.ac.nz That's no body, you know Funny Lee out there That's the Davis Law Library generic email And that will make sure it gets to one of my team If I'm not there And I have two hats at the law school I'm not only your research coordinator But I manage the law library So my office is located in that building I'm going to talk to you a little bit About the research side So if you are on campus What we've set up for you Is a legal research online resource It's going to help you Make it easy For your legal research content For first semester Hands up if you know where Canvas is on the website Still some hands down Okay so If you are online It looks like it's logged me out But you can Get to Canvas There are a number of ways I'm going to go the easy way Which is through the libraries And there is a quick link to Canvas Up the top there Doesn't like me I'll just reset the student view I've already had a few emails About Canvas So it's just a quick reminder That If you are in Canvas And 298 is not showing On your dashboard Like this Then go into courses On the left hand menu And click all courses So that all the courses that you're enrolled in Show up If you've got it in the little tiles It's nice and easy and you can just click into that And you are dealing with a semester two Option The legal research online course Is halfway down Once you click on that You might be prompted for a password at some point In this, there's a menu And going through the classes So what we recommend Is that you read each of these Before you come to the class There are optional quizzes In each of the modules as well So if for example You wanted to know more about finding books You can test yourself with these little quizzes Just to see Whether you've understood the content Or come prepared for the class Check the answers All incorrect Maybe you need to go back and look at the slides Obviously I need a bit of practice there This will also be Where all the communications for the course Come from Anna and myself So there will be announcements Where the assignments and everything Is in that particular Vessel for you Now as far as the legal research course content The good news Is that you've all been doing some research Before you came to law school You know your own social organisation Of events or Your previous year at university We're going to take that and transfer it Into a legal environment So we've got this exciting course That will help you decode The special language of law And it will give you practical Assistance That will help you not just with your law studies But on into practice If that's where you're heading So when you write your legal essays Or your opinions You need to know how to analyse the information How to find the relevant information How to write it up So your case books that you don't give you Everything that you need at law school Particularly if you want to do well So there's a lot of work There is a lot of information to absorb Focus on your goal To keep you motivated So you want to be like the young lady On the right of my screen Instead of the young man asleep on the books This course to pass Law school Through your LLB And the legal research classes Can find to three and a half Of the content classes In semester one In your course books Which I'll talk about in a moment What you'll find is this particular flowchart Called the legal research process I'm not going to dwell too much on this today You don't need to memorise it Or anything like that Or you'll be focusing on For the 298 course You start at the very top with analysing the facts Looking at the context Then you can consult your resources You evaluate, you apply And then you write it up So we will keep returning to this flowchart In the future classes And keeping our legal methodology on track So today's just a really brief intro To this To let you know what's coming up The other thing you need to be keeping In the back of your mind is What's so different about legal information Why do I have to even go to a class About legal research Well, if you look at the online Module on Canvas What you will see is it's all about Different types of materials You're going to come across things like Law reports and unreported judgements So those might be new to you And the structure So it's a little bit different to other disciplines Where you might hear the terms primary and secondary But in law they are completely different meanings We've got a different way of citing And I'll talk to you in a moment About the New Zealand Law Star Guide This is the prescribed text for the course The way it's published is different How it's cited, the structure And the language that you're going to hear Who's been watching how to get away with murder? Yeah, awesome So in one of the very first episodes They go, who knows what actus rayus is And like everybody's going blank face Well, you're going to find out And we'll show you the tools that you can use To do that So the one thing you do need to be Thinking about is This style guide You'll be required to use this through All of your law school classes We're up to the second edition It's the black one, it's about $22 From the bookshop, you can get a print copy We've got copies in the Davis You can borrow from the short loan For two hours use in the library But there's also an online version So up to you which you prefer To utilise There are two recommended texts You don't need to purchase these So don't go to the bookshop looking And spend extra money That also available on the short loan In the Davis The first one is the New Zealand law dictionary And we're going to talk about dictionaries in class one And that's by Peter Spiller And that's going to help you interpret Terms and phrases So it's really useful, just borrow those And also if you want If you get really enthusiastic about legal research Mary Rose Russell's Legal Research in New Zealand will give you good guidance About that as well Again, borrow from the library You don't need to purchase these I'm sure you're all aware That the Libraries and Learning Services website Has been updated Since the end of last year And this will probably be a good portal For you to access a lot of the materials That we'll be talking about through the courses The new catalog is sort of like a Google bar But you can drop down to All of the information for your databases And other links including canvas Up in the top left-hand corner As well The reason I'm showing you this page Is from the study option So it goes help study research If you click on study And then subject guides The law subject guide is where you need to be That environment for this year as well So on your personal devices This page It's got quick links to canvas It's got the legal databases Information about the Davis And at the very bottom there is the link to the style guide So it's a really important page It's in the slides with the web address I'm pretty sure you can find that As far as the library is concerned There are tours That are running from 6 March to 26 March You can see the times That are entirely optional There are no where things are in the Davis And all the ins and outs in the top tips You might want to just come and take one of these For 10-15 minutes There's no bookings required There will be tours at the end of your Class 1 as well So this might just give you a little bit more information About what's going on in the Davis as well Now you see the little picture With the little bears We in the Davis have a little Mascot called Barrister Bear I'll tell you more about him in a moment His children I think Following But for 298 Your first class is starting next week from Monday You need to turn up to the Bell Gully Computer Laboratory It's in the Davis Law Library So when you come down the hill today for the barbecue We're building 802 right in front of the red umbrellas As you go in the library You turn right room 203 Is the Bell Gully Computer Lab So it's sponsored by one of our large firms New Zealand Bell Gully And that's where the 298 sessions Will be. Small workshops as Anna Has already mentioned If you are interested The Davis has a Facebook page And Barrister Bear or Barrie As he's known He gets up to a lot of antics Including reading the style guide in his free time So you might want to have a look at that Just to find out what's going on And the one other thing I need to mention Is that along with the style guide As the prescribed text You also need to make sure On the 4 Monday Before your first class You get a copy of the green course book From the University Book Shop It's a practical work book That you use as we go through the classes To do exercises as well As it's got a lot of information in it So please make sure you get that The print copy It's not available electronically Thank you guys, have a great year Thank you so much Alrighty, just a very quick snippet On legal writing Obviously it's a few weeks away Before you have to worry about this But just to give you a brief overview Of what you're going to be doing First class you have It's very nice and easy You will just be meeting Your writing instructor Getting to know a bit about them They'll get to know a bit about you We'll have a little bit of a chat Then the rest of the semester We give you some general writing tips For legal writing and focus on essays And essays are something That you will have to write A number of over the next few years So we try and set you up really well With the information you need For doing that In semester two we switch To more sort of real world Practical writing We start off with problem questions Obviously you guys have already done Problem questions in part one And you'll continue to do them this semester In your part two courses We start with them because they are The absolute foundation of almost every Single piece of legal writing you will do And also it's the chance you will get To get really detailed feedback On how you're going with them And to try and step you up From if you're On a B Get you to the next bracket of a B Plus A minus And if you're a straight A plus student Then congratulations well done You can help the rest of the class After that we look at legal memoranda And legal memoranda Is something that law firms use On a daily basis So when you see a client in a law firm You generally will write a piece of advice That will then get circulated Around the other lawyers in your firm So you need to learn how to do that And we call that illegal memo We'll teach you how to write to clients Firstly lawyers do that a huge amount And so start getting you into the Habits and the style of doing that And then as I mentioned before We finish up with negotiation Alright In terms of the legal writing teachers I run the legal writing side of the program With Dr Jane Norton Who's another lecturer in the law school Unfortunately Jane couldn't be here today But she's really looking forward to meeting you guys We also have then a team Of 14 instructors Who take the various different groups They are an awesome bunch Of people They've got a whole range Of different experiences Some of them are practising lawyers Some of them come from a more academic background But they are a phenomenal team Who you will get to meet Sorry, in due course If throughout the year at any stage Whether it's in the research, writing Or communication part Please come and see me Shoot me an email, come and knock on my door I'm really happy to have a chat About anything and everything at any point Alright Finally just some logistical bits And pieces To run over Steph's already mentioned that the research classes Take place in the law library So that should hopefully be straightforward In the fourth class Halfway through you'll switch From the research to the writing Your writing instructors will turn up In the Bell Galley computer lab And they'll take you to the classrooms You're going to be in for the rest of the year So you don't need to worry too much about it They'll take care of it all But basically you're going to be in the 810 building Which is the Eden Crescent Short Street building Across the road from the library When are the classes? So the way Law 298 runs Is on a two week cycle Which basically means In the first week of the cycle Half of you all have a class And then half of you get the week off Second week of the cycle The other half of you have a class So you only ever have Law 298 Every second week of semester You do need to work out Which week you're in And the best way of doing this You've been assigned a workshop In a workshop number If you have an odd number So 1, 3, 15, 17 Week 1 So that means your class will start next week Week beginning 6th of March If you've got an odd numbered workshop 4, 6, 8, etc Then you're in the second week You get next week off And you start on the 13th of March Make sense? Awesome Okay One of the real I know you're getting a lot of information today I really hope you remember every word That Steph and I have said If you don't Please just remember This slide It is for your own good It is compulsory to attend Law 298 classes Now I personally have very mixed views About attendance being compulsory Generally at university Your adults, if you want to rock up, rock up I think you should It's great but you know It's on you So I wouldn't normally be someone Who would think compulsory attendance is important But we do make it compulsory For a very important reason And that is that this is a skills-based course We don't give you a lot of reading outside of class For most of your other subjects You do a huge amount of work outside of class As well as having to go to lectures Here the vast majority of the work you do Is in the classroom So we will be giving you exercises And feedback and so on That you can only get in the classroom Which is why the Law School And the Dean has decided that this is Really, really important that you actually show up If you miss a workshop Without a legitimate excuse You will lose five marks from the subject So that means at the end of the year If you've got 70% You'll be taken down to 65% Obviously we understand that in life Things go wrong, you get sick People you're looking after get sick Things happen If you have at any stage in the year Something that comes up Which means you just cannot make a class Please see the lovely Emily Who you saw before in the blue And she can arrange for you To attend a different workshop Emily And as a student advisor Is the only person Who's able to sign off I can't give you permission to attend another class Steph can't, your instructors can't And it's really, really, really important That you go and check in with Emily Very quickly assessment You've got two workshops And two tests for the research side of things Four assignments for legal writing And communication spread over the year Lucky, last year they had five For the legal writing side So we cut it down And there's no exam Alright, as you mentioned before Canvas is how we communicate with you So keep an eye on it We will keep it updated really regularly Second to last thing Because I realise I'm running out of time Last year you should have done An academic integrity online course If you're new to the university Because you've transferred Please make sure you do it If somehow you got through the system Without doing it last year Please have a look We take academic integrity matters Really, really seriously Unfortunately last year We had a number of students Who were caught copying work Either from other students Or from other sources And that means that There's a really, really strict Discipline process that kicks into place And it has huge ramifications It can result in you being kicked out of university It can also result In not being able to practice law in the future This goes well beyond the gates of the university So please check out the programme We've put stuff in the course book here To tell you what to do and not to do If you're unsure at all, check it out I really hope to meet all of you And have great conversations And get to know you I don't want this first time to be When you're sitting in my office In trouble for plagiarism So take note Alright, finally As Steph said Make sure you get your course book Get a copy of New Zealand Style Guide Or have a look at it online And make sure you've logged into Canvas Any questions before we wrap it up? No? Awesome Look forward to meeting you this year Have a great rest of the day And I'll catch you soon Thanks guys We'll give it up for Kelly Rowland And Pianzi Photos and autographs Available later on Cool So just before we head into the next session I just want to introduce something new So for all means Our cap like this Right Like a clap With your pinky finger up A ball ball Say everyone's ball ball My ball ball My Once I go say Everyone just claps Okay, so once I say Say Okay, so ball ball My ball ball My Say Oh my God Unbelievable You have made it Into part two Congratulations One more just before we Introduce our thing I'll just say Law, butty, molly, focus Clap Focus We'll save that one For next month Yeah It's okay it is All right Okay, so next up We have Let's try it So law, butty, molly, focus Clap Okay, this is not a silent class We can say focus But we'll focus in the next session Next up we have Shannon Ring Who comes to us From Careers Development It's very important That we do look after your wellbeing And half it's actually Quite paramount to us So if you can just Please join me In welcoming Shannon Ring And focus Welcome everyone My name is Shannon Ring I'm one of the Career Consultants Or Career Coaches At CDES I am based in the Clock Tower Just for future reference I am sitting at the back there And I wasn't actually expecting Quite so many faces So that's fantastic to see I'm also hearing about All of the things That you need to focus on Over the next semester And moving into The rest of your degrees It sounds like you guys Have a lot to focus on So what I'm wanting to do Is to pull your focus A little bit back And kind of start looking Strategically across The next couple of years And potentially after your degree So a little bit about myself I once was sitting Where you guys were I completed a Bachelor of Science And Bachelor of Arts here A couple of years ago I'm not going to count So I too have been In a situation Where I've been trying To work out What to do with my degree And what was next Since then I've had eight plus years Experience in HR Working for recruitment agencies So I have a lot of experience Of being on the other side Seeing what it's like Throughout the application process And what is really needed For graduates to think about At this stage And not so much At the end of your degree I also run a dance school During the evenings So I also know What it's like to have A portfolio career For those who are looking At doing something A little bit different So there's just A little bit about me Now I'm going to do something A little bit different And I know a quick game Is a good game So I want everyone to stand up Alright guys I'm going to need your focus here Because I don't want to talk About some other things But I think this is important I've got a 20 cent coin And I'm going to flip it And I want everyone To sit down If you think it's going to be tails It was heads And again I want everyone to sit down If you think it is heads And stay seated Yeah Alright, it's tails We can weigh down Everyone to sit down If you think it's going to be tails again Alright Nice Final decision Yup, it's heads Everyone to sit down If you think it's going to be heads Alright, and it's tails And I keep going until I've got One last left here Everyone to sit down If you think it's tails It's heads Alright, we've got some keen Everyone to think it's heads Everyone to think it's heads Please sit down Yeah So if you think it's going to be tails Stay standing Yup And it's tails We're going to get started One person Everyone to sit down If you think it's going to be heads We've got some keen beams Okay Everyone take a seat Alright Okay, can I get your attention The aim of the game Like I said I actually literally thought I was going to be talking To 20 people today Not 340 So it's a bit easy to play When there's less of you here The point is that Sometimes you don't understand I was hoping to get down To one person Because I thought it was awesome Little voucher But it was going to take too much Of my time I've only got 15 minutes to tell You a bit about who we are And what we can do to support you The whole reference for the game Is sometimes It is important To be able to be To take the most of every opportunity And to be present In order to be able to play the game And be a part of the game You guys could have chosen To be staying at home Going to beach Watching Netflix But you're not You're here And you are Gaining a whole lot of information You're getting yourself prepared And with that preparation Once that meets opportunity You get success So success is where Preparation and opportunity meet You made the decision to come here And help get yourselves prepared So you have a greater opportunity To be successful later on So my advice is To invest as much as you possibly can In your own preparation So that you can create your future So how do you prepare To create your future You need to look, try, get support Ask questions, get involved Think and reflect Right from the beginning of your degree The more you do between now And the end of your degree You increase the chances And the opportunities To be successful And build the future that you want Not the future that your parents want Not the future that your friends Think you should have And also sometimes not necessarily The future that other people At university think is best for you You need to create your own future So this degree And I think this is something that The law faculty has really impressed Upon me because I work closely With the law faculty And also the creative arts faculty The law degree has a fantastic reputation Amongst many organisations You have the top eight And I know that across March You've got summer clerkships To think about internships, et cetera The top eight is fantastic You've got a whole lot of other legal firms You've got a whole lot of other opportunities Out there where you can work in-house Where you can work in corporate Where you can work in public sector So it is important to be able to To look and find out what's out there To try what the university provides you In terms of support and opportunity To ask for support Because you have plenty of it here Certainly at CDES And I also know that Jan Blair Works down in the law faculty So you have a lot of support Getting involved with everything That we prepare And I'm about to quickly talk you through Some of the things that we do Provide you guys Think and reflect as you take your journey Is this the right journey? Maybe opportunities don't work out As you thought they would And so, okay, great What are my options now? Who can support me in that? And that's certainly something that myself CDES and I, Jan Blair Are really keen to do If you actually go see a career consultant Outside of university You're probably looking at $100 Or $150 plus per hour Just to meet and talk this through With this access for free I was at university for four and a half years Didn't even know CDES existed If I had known I wouldn't have studied biology, geography And Spanish, yeah? I would be understanding that career Coaching and inspiring Young people and inspiring People who are starting out On a new part of their journey Is what I'm really passionate about So that's why I'm really excited To talk to you guys today So, how can we support you? So, we've got summer clerkships coming up So we have law distribution We're distributing law materials Down at the law faculty We've got workshops I think on the third and the fourth With Jan Blair To look at CVs and applications We also have One-on-one appointments For essential kind of career decisions That you're trying to make Any assistance that you're required With regards to your careers We also run a Finding your career pathway workshop Which looks at Pulling in your values The types of jobs and industries You'd be interested in And it just gives you That sort of initial support If you're starting to look At different opportunities Networking and building relationships I couldn't stress this enough We try and provide you With as many opportunities as possible So you can build relationships with With law firms, with employers We have recruitment events We have expo's We've got a law expo on March Make the most of it Your opportunity to get in front Of those employers outside of university It is extremely hard So make the most of it now You might not be looking for a job now That's fine But maybe that same person Is going to be the person Who's interviewing you in two years' time And they remember meeting you And we're impressed with you So relationship building Through networking is extremely important There's a whole lot of expo's and events That might be more related to Your conjoint degree It is really good to understand What is out there so that you can create Like I said, create your future What else have we got here? We provide information around Internships and graduate opportunities On our CDES website You have your own personal My CDES portal And on there you can access One-on-one opportunities with us Or appointments Look at workshops What events are coming up What jobs, what internships And clerkships are out there Which I know is also posted on there The law website Which comes through us And it's also, we're posting A whole lot of other types of jobs as well So really good to keep your eyes and ears open We also have a daily drop-in Where you can come up for five minutes Bring a CV, LinkedIn profile, cover letter Law application And we can give you some feedback So this is all free And I seriously cannot Advise That you guys make the most of it Last but not least I know that the journey For myself at university And for everyone else here There's a lot to think of There's a lot to take on There's a lot to study for There's competition for certain positions So there can be an additional stress So what I would love to impress on you guys Is to Is to be positive Increase your options If you At such an early stage And we say this to every single faculty If you narrow your opportunities Now, and that doesn't For whatever reason happen Then you need to go back to To stage, not stage one Back to the beginning Of your career journey again If you increase your options And obviously with a conjoint You have increased options Also increase your knowledge Of your opportunities out there Then your ability to be adaptable And resilient increases Yeah Challenge equals opportunity I'm sure you guys have heard that Any challenge that you're presented with Any perceived failure Any Anything that doesn't seem to Work out as you had intended Is an opportunity And when you have that frame of mind Anything's possible That someone's going to be talking about well-being next So I'll leave that up to them A sense of humour And you have all the support here at university So please do make the most of it So just quickly This is what our CDES website looks like If you don't take anything from this Talk Just do take that website Have a look You've got all of our information And opportunities there And on there It's got everything that you can Build for yourself If you have any questions You're welcome to come And chat to me afterwards Hopefully I'll see more of you guys Across your journey to creating your own future Thank you Thanks a full maple See Very nice Just a bit of uncrowed people over here Just going like that So we have Kylie Ryan Who is a well-being educator Also from Careers Development and Employment Services Cyclops just testing She's not from there actually And she will explain where she's actually from We're just trying Hey everyone, how's it going? You're nearly there I'm going to let you eat soon Because I'm starving as well So I'm the well-being Educator for the entire university And I'm responsible for you not going crazy Pretty much is my job So today I'm going to talk to you A bit about Skills that you can employ To look after your well-being over the next Not just whilst you're at university But once you become a lawyer Which is one of the highest stress Positions that you can go into Yay you! Exciting isn't it? You can't wait, so glad you got on your second year So What we know about mental illness In a university setting Okay, we know that 75% Of people who experience Some form of mental illness Will do so before the age of 25 Okay So after that You go on the upwards One in four people will experience mental illness In their lifetime So how many of you are here? What's a quarter of that? A lot That's what it is I did a social work degree, not a maths degree So there's a lot So I know in business tomorrow I've got 2,000 students 500 of them are going to experience mental illness At some point It's a lot But there's some more good news for you If you come to university You're five times more likely than the general population Yay! So that's why my role is really important And To start employing some of these skills early on So the main three referrals We get through our health and counselling service One is anxiety Two is depression And three are relationship issues Okay, what some of you don't know Because we don't always tell you Is that you have six free sessions With a psychologist that you've already paid for Every year I know, imagine So, who knows where munchie mart is? Munchie mart? Bookstore You all know where the bookstore is? Munchie mart is behind the bookstore Health and counselling is upstairs from there Okay, I'm going to show you the website And where you can enroll online So that's easy to use our services If you need to The other thing I want to point out to you Is there's a big difference Between someone who's very stressed And experiences anxiety And someone who experiences clinical depression Okay, that's what a brain looks like When it's clinically depressed It is extremely hard to function In an academic environment With clinical depression People suffering from clinical depression Don't always know they're in that space Which is why it's important for you To look out for each other If you have a friend who's struggling On a day-to-day basis They're not making it to lectures and tutorials And they can't put a plan in place To get themselves back up again That's when they need to come and see us ASAP Okay, because we need to get A few more lights ticking on in that brain So that they can get back to their best again And perform academically really well Within the law school This is what we're trying to stop happening Okay, sometimes when things are Really stressful This is what we feel like Doing Okay, we sometimes stop Turning up for things We isolate ourselves from our friends If you can see that happening With someone in your courses Or who you're close with Please, again, get them through to the support services So we can help them move through that You will probably get to this point At some time this year Okay, it's really important That you personally know for you What your red flags are That you are not doing so well And you're starting to get really stressed out Okay, have a really quick talk To the person next to you Or think in your head What are your red flags That things are about to turn to custard A quick chat Would anyone like to share What their red flags are I'm going to be one of those people Who puts you on the spot and points at you If you don't Where's all the mature students when you need them I was one of them too Okay, what someone's red flags How do you know when things aren't going so well Yup Stop turning up to classes Alcohol Yup Increasing alcohol intake Anyone not sleep Hands up if you're not Going to sleep or waking up And staying awake for three hours Anyone sleep a lot Anyone Forget to eat When they're highly stressed out Yup Does anyone Eat a lot When they're stressed out Okay, so as you can see The biggest red flag I can give you Is that they tend to be At opposite ends of the spectrum Everyone copes really differently With stress, but your red flags Tend to be either you're not sleeping Or you're sleeping all the time You're not eating, you're eating all the time You're not talking to anyone You're talking to everyone Okay, so they tend to be At opposite ends of the spectrum So keep an eye on you What are they for you If you know it now Let your friend know what they are If you don't know what yours are Ask your mother, I'm sure she'll tell you Okay, but jot them down on a piece of paper If they start coming up Then it's time to get some help Right, so what can we do So we don't get to that point in the first place We nearly went to the next slide This is the bubble of love Okay, we now have a whole website And you're about to get A program rolled out To all of you as law students this year On a weekly basis So when your well-being Little emails come out from your student support advisers Please open them up And have a quick look at some of the skills You can do that week They will help with your academic performance If you're functioning really well Mentally Get this point Students will quite often say to me Why can't the university just not give us All the assignments at the same time And stop stressing us out We can't do that, I'm sorry And sometimes it's outside of our control And unfortunately life's a wonderful thing And it probably hasn't even started messing With some of it yet Okay, and it's going to get to that point Start doing some of these things now And hopefully it will reduce That stress somewhat So number one Connecting with other people Okay, this is one of the five ways to well-being The reason it's important Is that when we connect with other people We produce all sorts of happy hormones In our brain When we're suffering from anxiety Or depression or really stressed out We need those happy hormones To pick us up a bit So you've got one minute To turn around to the person behind you I know, scary You've never talked to them before, have you? And say hello and introduce yourself By name Go on this together guys You are all going to be Experiencing the same amount of stress Help each other out and get to know each other If you're a person Who finds it hard to connect with other people And have a bit of social anxiety We have two well-being groups That run through the health and counselling And show you how to log into those And they'll work on skills for you To start connecting with other people And make it a bit easier We've also got over 250 clubs and societies That you can link into So give those a go The other one is giving back Now we're going to have a whole give-back week in law Where we look at nice things we can do To other people Because it makes us feel happy inside When we do nice things for other people So that week is about week five Keep an eye out for that one Staying active This is another Really quick way To get those hormones released that you need If you're not doing so well From a well-being perspective It's 15 to 20 minutes a day Of anything you are going to do Consistently That's walking to Britomart and back Or across Up that big hill of the domain And back again Try and put it into your day It will make a huge difference This is really important And I'm going to shoot through it This is about sleep Any of you who have had children Or had been in a house Where there are children who wake you up You will know that not sleeping Has a huge impact On your well-being You need seven to eight hours Sleep a night Through the sleep stages you need to function And perform academically At your best Five percent of the population Can win on four hours sleep Any of those people around Four hours sleepers You have a genetic abnormality Well done The rest of us Need our seven to eight hours sleep There are a few things That are going to stop you getting the sleep You need You should be going to sleep What time at night What time should you go to sleep at night Ten Ten-thirty is the ideal time To be falling asleep Ten-thirty is the ideal time To be going to sleep That means you're going to go through The right sleep stages However, you will not be going to sleep At ten-thirty if you are looking At any light Your brain needs to produce melatonin Even with those fancy lights That they say, hey download this It will take away the blue light They don't work Your brain needs to not look at light For an hour before it goes to sleep Otherwise you won't be able to go to sleep Caffeine is the other thing Unlike the joy police with sleep So caffeine Guys if we keep talking we're not going to get through it Sorry Caffeine ideally one a day Not after 2pm Alcohol None at all I know that you guys Are not going to do this all the time I get paid to do this and I don't do it all the time But if you are starting To get really stressed out This is the number one thing you can do To make life a little bit better for yourself Try and get your sleep in line Cut back on your caffeine Your alcohol and your devices Get your 7-8 hours sleep And you'll be feeling a lot better the next day The other thing during study time When you're cramming They recently did a study at Harvard Where they had two groups of students One who crammed till 3am in the morning Before their exam The others who got their 7-8 hours sleep The ones who got their 7-8 hours sleep Had 20 times the memory recall In their exam the next day 20 times that's huge So start thinking about those things When you're stressed out Right Money, there's not many rich students Around Our main resource for money Within the university Is AUSA if things aren't going so well Or come and see our psychologist And they can do some financial counselling with you I won't have much time to go over the rest of that today Sorry Take notice This is about mindfulness Hands up if you've heard of mindfulness Overseas in universities They roll this out On a daily basis They do it before exam times The best app that I've found for students A, because it's free And because it's designed for you Is called Smiling Minds You can download it Five minutes a day When they did a recent research study It improved GPA by one That's a whole mark The reason for that Is that it grows the part of your brain That does Emotional control and memory So for students It's well worth considering There is a mindfulness group Through health and counselling That you can enroll in That's particularly around improving academic performance If you google health and counselling Auckland University You will see the wellbeing groups there That you can enroll online Keep learning This is a little bit about what you're talking about in the past Some times things don't go to plan It's not necessarily the end of the world There are other options That you can look at career-wise There are other pathways That you can take Which will still mean you have the same career Just not necessarily How you're expecting it to happen So keep talking to people Don't give up It's the first speed bump And you don't quite get the mark that you needed Go and seek the support services for that The last one really quickly What you put into your body Is going to make a huge difference To how well your brain learns We've got a whole lot of resources online We also have mindful eating groups Through health and counselling That are worth looking at as well If this is an issue for you So how do you access all of this www.aulandac.nz. It's all going to be on there It's there right now Waiting for you to look at it You'll also get weekly emails on this And also the law Facebook page Will provide a link for you Through to the well-being pages Sorry it was so quick But have a nice life And please use us at health and counselling If you need us And I'd just like to Invite our student leaders If we could just please make your way to the front Representatives from AULSS Pulsar as well as Tadakoturi Please just make your way to the front Hi everyone My name's Jason And I am the AULSS president For 2017 For those of you that don't know what AULSS is It basically stands for The Auckland University Law Student Society We basically take care of All the fun things at university Like the ball Law signs The garden party And of course law camp Instead of going through What AULSS does Which I'm sure you'll find out From the rest of the year I thought I'd just take this time quickly to Talk about three things That I've picked up during University so far So the first thing is To jump at every opportunity Mooting, witness examination Association Client interviewing All these things Social events There's so many things that Law school has to offer And I encourage you to jump at each Every opportunity that you get You will learn so much You'll make new friends And you only get one shot At the next three or four years Of this degree So make the most of it The second thing Is to use the resources That you have available to you We have some awesome lectures That are willing to give up their time To help you do well So use them You can be very intimidating But honestly once you go And break that ice It's so easy to go up to them And talk to them about anything Also older students Older students have so much to give to you And they are itching to tell you How good they did And how well they are And what kind of person they are So use that against them And yeah I encourage you to go talk to them And the last thing is stress less Yeah I can't urge this enough One grade, one test, one essay It doesn't define who you are Or shape your career It's a stepping stone Some of the best lawyers and judges Today have been through What you're going through now They go through bumps They have bad grades But it's just about work ethic And it's about being a good person And getting through it So yeah Just quickly those are the three things I know it sounds like A bit of a jumble here But the important thing is Is just to find balance I think if you have balance In your life With work, with study With friends With fun That's when you are able to do the best Because you have a clear headspace Just some quick information on camp I know a lot of you are going to be Walking down to law school To sign up Probably running down To sign up So what you need to know Is that before you get to law school There's an open road So there's cars There are a lot of cars And cars are fast So be careful And don't push each other And yeah And lastly If you guys have any questions About anything You know Want to talk about life Or something like that Feel free to come up to me Chat to me whenever Email me Message me I'll be around Thanks guys Kia ora koutou Ka mahi kia koutou katoa Congrats again on getting into part 2 My name's Alex I'm the Tumaki Tani I'm the co-president Of Teraku Tere So we're the The student whānau For us Māori law students Here at the University of Auckland So basically what we do Is we Kind of provide a whānau Away from your own whānau To just hang out It's really good for your Spiritual well-being as well Just makes you feel comfortable At law school Makes you feel like you actually belong Yeah We do trips and stuff That if you've been to the orientations In that you would have already heard about But yeah Feel free If you have any questions Feel free to come up to myself Or any of the other members Also just a quick note We're going to be having A opening for our new Room Te Ako So that's going to be It's likely to be on Monday In the morning At about six o'clock In the Building 801 In the rooms 410 I would think So up on level four So you're more than welcome to Come to that with your Identifiers Māori or not But yeah if you have any questions Or anything I'll go down to law school after this And you can come up and have a chat Tāliu whalauwa everyone My name is Robin Lissatile I am the female co-president For the Pacific Island Law Students Association And we're also here For our Pacific students If you want to know more about us We are located just across From the Māori Association So yeah feel free to come around We're really friendly Yeah sorry We just got back from camp But yeah we're really excited Congratulations again Yeah it's a big achievement To just come this far So yeah well done and yeah Welcome Hello everyone my name is Jade This is Ella we are the co-directors Of the Equal Justice Project Before I tell you a little bit about What we do I just wanted to also say Congratulations on getting into part two Such an amazing accomplishment To make the most of your time Here at Law School So the Equal Justice Project Is a law school based volunteer group We have about 100 volunteers each year And there's an application process to get in But basically what we do Is we are trying to enable Equal access to justice in the community Mainly our Auckland community We send volunteers into community law centres We write articles, we run symposiums There's too much to cover here right now So please go check out our website www.equaljusticeproject.co.nz For more information Yeah cool, Jade's pretty much said it all But awesome to see you guys here today This is a huge year for EJP So we'd really love to see you all apply and get involved We have an information session On Monday the 13th of March We can come along, meet our incredible executive And just learn about what we do The kind of students we're looking for Are fun, involved, engaged We don't care about grades at all We just want you to come along Yeah just really Give back to the Auckland legal community And enjoy doing it Appeals a lot to criminal law students If that's something you're interested in It's really rewarding work And I really encourage you to get involved And come along and meet new people Thank you Kia ora everybody, my name's John Kingey I'm one of the directors of Rainbow Law With Alex Transtin here This is our shirt she's modelling By one So basically what we do is Advocacy, events and support For our rainbow community here at Law School It's not just for those people Who identify as rainbow So if you're a supporter or if you want to get involved Please feel free to do so We have an office in level 2 Of building 810 This is the first year we're going to have A safe space for our students here at Law School So if you ever want to pop in We'll be around there quite a bit this year Feel free to come in, have a tea or coffee Or just hang out We have a Facebook page Which is the primary way at the moment To get in touch with us We also have an email So if you're interested Let us know via our Facebook page This year we're wanting to run a series of events So we've got like a lecture series That we'll be running with Simpson-Gresson We'll also have a series Of networking mixes with practicing Lawyers who are openly queer So if you're a new part 2 student And you're from our community We're looking to match you up with a practicing lawyer Who's out there right now So that's pretty exciting We're looking at expanding our group this year So if you're interested in getting involved Please get in touch And congrats on getting into part 2 Cheers Hey guys, I'm Tom and this is Jesper And we're here to talk about the review If you guys haven't heard the law review before It's a comedy sketch musical Dancing sort of show that is Written and put on by the law students At Sky City every year Talent's not required Seeing as Jesper and I are standing up here But it's a really great way to meet a whole lot of people In your second year I know I made a whole lot of friends And it really made my life a whole lot easier And I got a lot of notes from the older cast members But that's just a little bonus Yeah and if you guys want more information About it or it sounds like something You might be keen to do On Facebook as well We've also got a YouTube channel Where you can sort of get a sample Of a lot of the things we've done Which have been pretty successful And me and Tom will both be down at law school After this if you want to have a chat So thanks guys Hi everybody Congratulations on making it here My name is now Sheen And I'm from the Mooting Society So we exist to facilitate mooting at law school If you don't know what that is It's probably the closest experience That you're going to get while you're at university To actually advocate or present an oral argument In front of the judge Or appear in front of court So we run a series of Competitions throughout the year That you can take part in by joining And a series of social events And also we have educational resources Which include seminars to actually improve your oral advocacy skills We're going to be down at law school So that's where sign ups are going to be happening At the same time as they are for AULSS It's really easy So there's a form There'll be a box when you're signing up to AULSS That you can just tick and say yes I want to be part of the Mooting Society The exec is also going to be down there If you want to have a chat to us about what mooting is like Or what it's about Please let us know This year we're running a series of events Called impromptu mooting So if a mooting competition sounds intimidating Or too hard An impromptu moot is something that you can just rock up to Hope to see you all there, thanks Hi My name's Brett I'm from a newly formed group We're not an official society yet We're called Not Your Average Law Students And we are trying to build a network For mature students So older students Which is why I'm up here So We have Our first event planned For the evening that Law camp is on Which is kind of a deliberate Step on out part because Generally I remember when law camp was on There was no way I was going So I figure other people in a similar boat Might be coming along to our event You can find us on Facebook We've got plans to Have social events during the year But it's pretty unformed still So jump in Help us meet some people Thanks Everyone, my name is Zenas And this is Owen Hello We're from Veritas Which is a Christian Law Students Fellowship And we're part of the TSF Which is the Tercery Students Christian Fellowship So if you've heard of EU, OZF Engineering, CMS Yeah, they're all part of this fellowship And we run events During the year And we talk about what Christianity is What faith is And if it relates to our life or not And we do discussions And sometimes we do combined events Like with Pilsa last year We got to invite Chief Justice Andrew B. Croft to talk to us And it was pretty cool Our first event for the year is going to be Run Somewhere on the campus We haven't got a place yet But anyway, we know that most of you Or I don't think any of you have run A 101 course And I don't think any of you guys have yet Survived law school So we want to run a course called A forum Called Law School 101 Survival Guide So that you can know how to get through 101 And survive We'll be talking about how to deal with Large quantities of work And also how does the Christian faith relate To university And law school in general And the firm that Marcus Roberts Will be speaking for that Who is one of the law faculty Kia ora, folks I just want to highlight a couple of things Just before we wrap up And thanks for laughing at my jokes I was actually on trial I might not have a job after this Inside your packs Please, there is a Law Part 3 Orientation Book in here Actually read it, I did write some stuff in it And it's probably the stuff that has mistakes Or the stuff that really counts Don't come to office if you haven't read it But one last thing I want to say In just closing There's a couple of people that we do have to acknowledge In regards to setting up today The first is Soranjika who obviously you guys have met Who's the manager of the Student Centre We've also got Martina who put together all your packs As well as the programmes Contacted all our lecturers And the rest of the Student Centre too I just want to say something in closing if I may Especially just as we get ready To head on down Folks, I was once in your place Like everyone said before I've been here for 10 years Five as a student, five as an actual staff member It's hard, law degree is hard I'm just going to tell you guys straight up If you guys thought that it was going to be a breeze It's really difficult But one thing that I guess I want you guys just to take on board Is that you guys have an opportunity To build a really good culture amongst your cohort In past years we've been really exclusive In student groups that have been really exclusive It can be an intimidating place But it does not hurt to say hello to your neighbour It does not hurt to actually Just let your neighbour know That if things are going bad That you can just reach out or just even a smile You'll be amazed at how much a smile Can actually go far And they can actually even end up in a relationship But as But as the figures show We've got a man draped Down at the Law School And also want to thank Rainbow Law as well For mixing up the numbers But it does At the end of the day I just want you guys to know Look I just want to support Veritas But I just want to say this Reach out to your student next to you Make sure that you guys journey together I once had a principal at high school Before I got kicked out And there's one thing that he said Before I gave him the middle finger If you go to the top They're going to go to the top I mean to be all preachy and stuff like that But I just want to let you guys know Love your neighbour as you love yourself And just make sure that each and every one of you are okay You have the opportunity to create an awesome culture Going forward, laugh at it now But when you're actually struggling Will be the ones who are actually picking up the pieces You guys have been absolutely awesome I wish you guys all the best Take care of one another