By: peterwn
An assignment for Margaret Wilson. Before entering Parliament, when she was Law Dean at Waikato she stymied a similar proposal by Waikato University on the basis that Council ratification was needed...
View ArticleBy: Viking2
what bullshit. If the Universities had fee paying customers then they would have to meet the customers needs. But they don’t they had entitled free fee customers who think that they are the be all and...
View ArticleBy: capitald
I’m pretty concerned about the move. I studied law at Canterbury – the building has the entire faculty, the library and all of the resources in a single place. It enables all law students to study in...
View ArticleBy: F E Smith
It is not the first time that the University has tried to place the School of Law within the College of Business. The Law Faculty fought tooth and nail last time (about 5 or 6 years ago, from memory,...
View ArticleBy: David in Chch
It’s not the first faculty, nor the first time, and little or no consultation with staff or students, then or now. Sad but not surprising.
View ArticleBy: UpandComer
This is blown out of proportion. Was talking to the vice chancellor at Otago about this – all that is effectively happening fro the student’s point of view is that the law library will now be in the...
View ArticleBy: Stuart
I gota agree with viking, it is not worth consulting with students as the onl ones that respond are the ones that will complain about everything. it will affect staff far more and in the end, the...
View ArticleBy: trout
Time to reduce the number of Law Schools. The proliferation of lawyers in this country (especially the production line ‘Waitangi’ lawyers from Waikato) has only led to the rapid growth of a ‘legal...
View ArticleBy: PaulL
Storm in a teacup. It’s a structural change. This is about as useful as consulting with unions when you want to restructure your organisation. In other words, not.
View ArticleBy: David Garrett
Upandcomer: I dont know where you got your law degree, but I seem to remember a great many pre 1967 cases having considerable importance … Rylands v. Fletcher – the root of an entire branch of the law...
View ArticleBy: capitald
I agree with David on this one. I am yet to find someone who objects to the move who actually went to law school.
View ArticleBy: UpandComer
Yes David, but note that those are seminal cases which are in fact available online precisely because they are the bases of branches of law. Any big line of cases of importance and pedigree is...
View ArticleBy: rakuraku
The problem with this country is Lawyers and too many of them. If you want something stuffed up get a Lawyer involved.
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