PREREQUISITE: LAW 418 or Summer Employment with QPLC RECOMMENDED: Administrative Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Advanced Legal Research, Human Rights. The Prison Law Clinic is a specialized legal clinic that provides legal advice, assistance and representation to prisoners in the seven penitentiaries in the Kingston area. This clinical course provides 2nd and 3rd year students, who have had prior experience with the Prison Law Clinic (either through LAW 418 or through summer employment), with the opportunity to develop advanced advocacy and litigation skills by having carriage of more complex prison law files, including involvement in the human rights and test-case litigation practice carried on by the Prison Law Clinic. Students will pursue multiple targeted research projects in support of current and anticipated prisoner-rights litigation, assist counsel in preparing materials for courts and/or tribunals in ongoing litigation matters. Students will observe hearings and/or mediation sessions related to their files. Students may be required to travel to area prisons interview clients, potential test-case litigants and/or witnesses, and represent prisoner clients in proceedings before administrative decision-makers where the Clinic intends to create a record for a potential test-case. A driver's licence is generally required. Students will complete casework and will attend at the QLC, 5th Floor, LaSalle Mews, 303 Bagot Street, Kingston every two weeks or as required for individual supervision meetings with the course instructor. Grading will be based on an evaluation of the casework completed by the student throughout the year. Anticipated enrollment for this course is 4-6 students. Students will be selected by the course instructor based on a written application process.
PREREQUISITE: LAW 418 or Summer Employment with QPLC RECOMMENDED: Administrative Law, Advanced Constitutional Law, Advanced Legal Research, Human Rights. The Prison Law Clinic is a specialized legal clinic that provides legal advice, assistance and representation to prisoners in the seven penitentiaries in the Kingston area. This clinical course provides 2nd and 3rd year students, who have had prior experience with the Prison Law Clinic (either through LAW 418 or through summer employment), with the opportunity to develop advanced advocacy and litigation skills by having carriage of more complex prison law files, including involvement in the human rights and test-case litigation practice carried on by the Prison Law Clinic. Students will pursue multiple targeted research projects in support of current and anticipated prisoner-rights litigation, assist counsel in preparing materials for courts and/or tribunals in ongoing litigation matters. Students will observe hearings and/or mediation sessions related to their files. Students may be required to travel to area prisons interview clients, potential test-case litigants and/or witnesses, and represent prisoner clients in proceedings before administrative decision-makers where the Clinic intends to create a record for a potential test-case. A driver's licence is generally required. Students will complete casework and will attend at the QLC, 5th Floor, LaSalle Mews, 303 Bagot Street, Kingston every two weeks or as required for individual supervision meetings with the course instructor. Grading will be based on an evaluation of the casework completed by the student throughout the year. Anticipated enrollment for this course is 4-6 students. Students will be selected by the course instructor based on a written application process.
