Articles and Speeches
The Centre has prepared or presented a number of articles, speeches and papers on pro bono, including:
— June 2009 (PDF 37KB)
Speech by John Corker at the launch of Pro Bono PI Insurance Scheme
Student Experiential Learning in a Social Justice Context:
-November 2008 (Word doc)
Paper given by John Corker to a Community Engagement Forum held at Bond University in Nov 2008. This paper is also published in "Community Engagement in Contemporary Legal Education: pro bono, clinical legal education and service-learning" ,edited by Patrick Keyzer, Amy Kenworthy and Gail Wilson, Halstead Press 2009.
— December 2007 (PDF 81KB)
Speech by John Corker at the launch of Pro Bono Practices — A Guide to the Pro Bono Practices of NSW’S Largest Law Firms.
— February 2007 (PDF 153KB)
Address at the opening of the Tasmanian Legal Year by John Corker.
— September 2006 (PDF 326KB)
Paper presented by John Corker at the AIJA Annual Conference 2006 in Adelaide which examines the pro bono legal work done in Australia, the barriers to pro bono, future initiatives and what courts should/ should not do.
— February 2005 (PDF 142KB)
Speech by John Corker at the launch of the best practice pro bono sessions at the Law Society of New South Wales.
— 22 September 2004 (PDF 64KB)
Paper presented by John Corker at the National Museum of Canberra regarding Australian lawyers, social change and access to justice.
— November 2003 (PDF 52KB)
A brief article (to be published in the Law Institute Journal (Vic), November 2003) on ways in which pro bono law reform and community legal education schemes can benefit disadvantaged client groups.
— July 2003 (PDF 60KB)
One of a series of articles in the NSW Law Society Journal (Vol 41 No 6, July 2003) addressing the issue of ‘unbundling’ legal services. Titled "Pro bono opportunity in discrete task assistance", the article from NPBRC advocates discrete task assistance as an essential tool for pro bono and publicly funded lawyers to extend access to justice.
— February 2003 (PDF 588KB)
Describes some aspects of current pro bono practice in Australia, the role of the private and public sectors, the benefit of forging links between pro bono service providers, publicly funded legal service providers and community organisations and the objectives of the National Pro Bono Resource Centre.
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