About Footnotes (by the Sydney University Law Society)
Footnotes - a podcast for students, by students, presenting unique and intriguing stories about law and the people involved in it. Created by the Sydney University Law Society (SULS) and supported by Clifford Chance.
Whether you've only just entered your law degree, or are a few years in, it is guaranteed you have come across clerkships one way or the other. So what exactly are they? Are they the right thing for you? What do they mean for your career beyond law school?
Join us as we sit down with ex-clerks and USYD alumni Bru Hammer and Ammellia Fu from White & Case as they discuss their clerkship journey and how they eventually transitioned into a graduate role at the international law firm.
And if you're feeling inspired, applications for White & Case's Winter Clerkship are open 4 March - 7 April 2024! See more at https://www.whitecase.com/careers/locations/australia/students/our-offer/vacation-clerkships (https://www.whitecase.com/careers/locations/australia/students/our-offer/vacation-clerkships).
Timestamps:
(0:00) Acknowledgement of Country
(0:29) Introduction to Episode
(0:59) Bru and Ammellia Personal Introductions
(2:30) What is a clerkship?
(6:19) The Application Process
(9:37) Do you need to be interested in commercial law?
(12:57) The firm's university to work transition
(16:58) Work as a Graduate
(20:58) Possible International Experiences
(26:45) Working in international jurisdictions
(28:49) General advice for post-university
(33:39) Law School vs Working in Law
(35:50) Thinking about the future
(38:05) Parting Advice
(39:29) Outro
Featuring: Bru Hammer and Ammellia Fu
Hosts: Tamsyn Bellew, Jacinda Yang
Producers: Tamsyn Bellew, Betty Huang
Executive Producer: Jacinda Yang
Footnotes (SULS) is based on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, and pay respects to the
Elders past, present and emerging.
19 Jan 2023
The Australian Jury
The Australian jury is known as a quintessential part of our legal system, as it provides a way to enable the general public to participate in and access the law. This tenant of the Australian court has been touted as essential to a fair trial, and ensuring the transparency of the legal process. Yet, as with any part of the legal process, the jury system has its own discourses. So, join us as we take the jury system to trial, as we discuss things from the media's effect on our jury system, to the importance of judge directions, to the nuances of the preremptory challenge.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Acknowledgement of Country
(00:20) Introduction
(01:45) The Empanelling Process
(17:30) The Trial Itself
(24:44) Deliberation and Post-Trial
(31:36) An Alternate Jury System?
(38:16) Outro
Additional Sources:
ALRC Aboriginal Peoples and the Jury: https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/recognition-of-aboriginal-customary-laws-alrc-report-31/23-general-issues-of-evidence-and-procedure/aborigines-and-juries/
NSWLRC on Jury Selection: https://www.lawreform.justice.nsw.gov.au/Documents/Publications/Reports/Report-117.pdf
Criminal Trial Courts Bench Book on Liberato Direction: https://www.judcom.nsw.gov.au/publications/benchbks/criminal/onus_and_standard_of_proof.html#:~:text=%5D%3B%20%5B129%5D.-,%5B3%2D605%5D%20The%20Liberato%20direction%20%E2%80%94%20when%20a%20case,1.
Bilal Skaf Retrial: https://www.theage.com.au/national/jurors-blunder-wins-gang-rape-retrial-20040506-gdxsug.html
Study on American vs Australian Juries: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/1100/
Footnotes (SULS) is based on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, and pay respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.
5 Oct 2022
The 2022 Bail Act Reforms
In June 2022, the NSW Parliament passed the Bail Amendment Act 2022, introducing new reforms, specificially requiring bail to be "refused following conviction and prior to sentencing where the offender will be sentenced to full-time detention, unless special or exceptional circumstances can be established". We sit down with The Honourable Justice Bellew as we discuss his experience with judging one of the first bail application under the reforms, and the potential effects these reforms can have on the future of Australian law.
(0:00) Introduction of Bail Act Changes
(4:27) Interview with Bellew J Begins
(5:50) Bail Applications since Reforms
(6:25) The Neil Duncan Case
(9:36) The Reforms
(11:46) The word "will"
(12:39) Role of the Media
(14:07) The Connection of Sex Offences
(15:01) Retrospectivity (and the lack thereof) in the Duncan Case
(19:25) Retrospective Cases
(20:24) Effect of Reforms on Court Resources
(23:14) Effect on Early Appropriate Guilty Pleas
(26:15) "Infelicity of Drafting"
(27:38) Presumption of Innocence
(30:00) Show-Cause Inconsistencies
(30:50) Final Advice
(31:40) Outro
Featuring: The Hon. Justice Geoffrey Bellew
Hosts: Tamsyn Bellew, Brandon Velleley
Producers: Nick Leavenworth, Tamsyn Bellew, Veronica Lenard, Brandon Velleley
Executive Producer: Jacinda Yang
Footnotes (SULS) is based on the unceded land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, and pay respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.
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