Legal Issues Centre Staff, Faculty of Law, University of Otago

University of Otago Legal Issues Centre - Te Pokapū Take Ture - Lunchbox Seminars

Lunchbox Series The aim of this seminar series is to fly intellectual kites, rather than present formal polished 'papers'; to stimulate debate and creative thought about access to justice and to provide an interdisciplinary 'meeting ground' for experimental, radical ideas relevant to the reform of the legal system.

A speaker introduces a topic in 15-20 mins max that: (a) identifies a practical problem of access to justice; (b) summarises problems and limitations of the current response of lawyers and the legal system; and (c) suggests an alternative approach/solution/proposal. These ideas will already be available in a downloadable 'position paper' (pdf) to be put up on the UOLIC website at least one week in advance of the seminar and seminar participants are deemed to have read the paper so that the speaker does not need to. The speaker 'speaks to' the issues rather than 'reads' a paper. A discussant then responds in 5-10 mins max with a critique of speaker's proposal with a view to 'crashing the kite' and provoking a debate. There then follows open discussion of the issue to the floor that will end with a vote on the proposition: "Should the Speaker's Kite Fly?".

Date	Topic	Speaker	Discussant	Paper
29 March 2012	Third Party Litigation: Funding or Profiteering	Brad Wendel, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School and Visiting Scholar, Otago Legal Issues Centre	Barry Allan Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
19 September 2011	Should 'law's persons' be re-imagined?	Anna Grear, Bristol Law School (UWE)	Ceri Warnock (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago)
16 August 2011	Consumer Choice in TransTasman Forum Shopping: Should the Customer Always be Right?	Reid Mortensen (Professor, School of Law, University of Southern Queensland and Visiting Scholar, Otago Legal Issues Centre)	Barry Allan (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Otago)
26 July 2011	Is Criminal Legal Aid Policy and Strategy undermining Access to Justice?	Milton Sperring - Barrister, Dunedin	Len Anderson - Barrister, Dunedin
10 March 2011	Judicial Orders of Legal Fees for Litigants: Selective Access to Justice?	W. Brent Cotter, Q.C. (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Saskatchewan and Visiting Scholar, Otago Legal Issues Centre)	Andrew Geddis (Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Otago)
2 December 2010	Should the idea of no-fault loss allocation (ACC) be extended to consumer disputes?	Warren Forster (Advocate in Accident Compensation Law, LLB Candidate)	Simon Connell (LLM Candidate)