Presentation Training
NEW PRIVACY LAWS
Training was held on 6 June 2002 in Melbourne and 13 June 2002 in Sydney
In-House Defamation Training
For over ten years, the Centre has run intensive media law training courses for working journalists and others in the media. The Centre runs regular practical media law courses for the major metropolitan newspaper publishers, broadcasters and on-line publishers. Its expertise in publishing, free speech and media issues also comes from its substantial research work, involvement in policy and reform processes, conference presentations and participation in media commentary.
* for broadcast and print media organisations
* for the publishing industry
Our courses are practical, flexible and tailored to the participants’ requirements.
Our courses:
* introduce staff to legal issues which they may encounter in their work;
* enable them to spot problematic material and deal with it;
* give them the tools to effectively handle complaints about legal matters and to identify when they need to seek legal advice;
* provide effective risk management strategies.
They are suitable for anyone working in the media and publishing industry - journalists, photo-journalists, editors, sub-editing staff, publicists and marketing staff and management.
Our presenters
The Centre has experienced presenters in its Sydney and Melbourne offices with hands on experience working in media organisations and law firms and considerable teaching expertise. Apart from presenting regular practical training courses to major print, broadcast and online media organisations, the Centre’s staff teach communications, law and journalism students at the University of New South Wales and Victoria University. Presenters are also involved in research projects, regularly present papers at industry conferences and publish widely on these subjects. The Centre also uses its seconded solicitors to supplement in-house staff and can draw upon other professionals for some training courses.
The Centre’s courses are designed for working professionals and freelancers. They have a substantial practical focus and are structured to involve maximum participation and minimum "lecturing". Sessions are lively and interactive, with an emphasis on learning by doing. Under the presenter’s guidance, participants are encouraged to work out the logic behind the legal principles, using their own knowledge and experience, together with practical course exercises and recent examples.
In our experience, many professionals and freelancers are intuitively aware of risk areas but lack the framework for analysing the problems they encounter. The Centre’s courses are designed to provide simple, practical frameworks for dealing with day to day legal risks and planning project strategies. Participants discuss real life case studies and are required to actively work through problems and analyse solutions.
Sample Defamation course topics
* Defamation for investigative journalism
* Defamation for sub-editors
* Defamation and photographs
* Defamation and the online environment
* Defamation and in-house publications
* Defamation for talk back productions
* Defamation for editors of student newspapers
* Defamation and political satire
* Defamation and drama production
* Defamation for fiction and non-fiction writing
* Defamation for documentary makers
Course size: The ideal class size for an active, practical course is 6 to 10 participants. Courses may be presented to larger groups, but these will involve less active participation.
Exercises and assessment: Participants in all courses are given practical exercises to complete. In the longer intensive courses, this includes structured assessment exercises which map their progress and enable them to get continuing feedback and assistance with more difficult conceptual issues.
Course materials: Participants are given a package of handouts and problem spotting checklists which are included as part of the fee.
Course fees
$1,500 for a half day and $3,000 for a full day. Venue and travel costs for courses outside of Sydney and Melbourne are additional.
What is covered?
Course length and content is tailored to the particular group. One of our trainers will contact you to discuss your requirements and develop appropriate content and materials.
If you are interested in arranging for the CLC to provide some in-house training on defamation please contact Heidi Nelson at heidi@comslaw.org.au
or 02 9385 7376.
Other In-House Training
The Communications Law Centre is a major provider of intensive in-house training courses to a wide range of industry and government organisations including :
* News Limited;
* Fairfax (staff of The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald);
* The Canberra Times;
* Network Ten;
* Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman;
* Law Institute of Victoria;
* Internet Service Providers and Content Hosts nationally on behalf of NetAlert;
* Ninemsn;
* Community Broadcasters’ Association of Australia;
* Public Relations Industry;
* Community Radio.
CLC has substantial expertise in:
* preparing materials and presentations tailored for a specialist audience.
* explaining complex legal and policy issues in a practical way to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Trainers/Educators for In-house and Presentation Sessions
Sydney Office
* DEREK WILDING is the Director of the Communications Law Centre. Derek holds qualifications in Arts and Law and a doctorate in media studies. He joined the Communications Law Centre from the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance where he was Senior Industrial Officer in the Federal Office of MEAA. Prior to that he was with Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Derek teaches a number of communications law subjects at UNSW.
* ROY BAKER is Senior Legal Researcher on the ARC-funded National Defamation Research Project, which is being run through the Communications Law Centre. He is admitted as a solicitor in England, Wales and New South Wales and holds Master of Laws degrees from Canada and Australia. Before joining the Centre he worked for 10 years at the BBC, where he practised media law, particularly in relation to defamation. He has extensive experience training media personnel at the BBC and the National Film and TV School in the UK.
* ISABELLA ALEXANDER is the Manager of Oz NetLaw, the internet law practice of the Communications Law Centre. Isabella is a solicitor in the Intellectual Property/Information Technology group at Clayton Utz, Sydney, and is currently on secondment to the Communications Law Centre. At the Centre, Isabella is involved in teaching undergraduate students enrolled in the course "Internet Legal Practice", giving legal information and advice relating to the internet, maintaining the Oz NetLaw website and researching legal issues concerning the internet and communications generally.
Melbourne office
* LILLIAN KLINE is a solicitor who joined the Centre from the IT section of Blake Dawson Waldron. She has degrees in Law and Business. She has had exposure to a wide range of Internet related transactions in the areas of digital signatures, data protection and privacy law.
While at the Centre she has conducted training seminars for media professionals, taught a range of subjects to undergraduate and graduate students and delivered a national seminar series to ISPs.
* KATE MACNEILL is a legal researcher and trainer with degrees in law and commerce and post graduate qualifications in economics. Kate's background is in the areas of industry regulation, trade practices and consumer protection. Her work in the Melbourne Office is in telecommunications usage and regulation and the delivery of defamation and copyright training to the Centre's media clients.
Please contact Therese Iverach on 02 9385 7385 or email admin@comslaw.org.au to clarify your requirements
Teaching
University of New South Wales
Oz NetLaw provides a Clinical Legal Education program in Internet Law for final year law students at the University of New South Wales. The students are directly involved in developing the website and participating in the legal practice. The course forms part of a law degree and helps students develop skills and contact networks not generally available in a traditional course format.
The program commenced in the first semester of 2001 and is expected to continue in second semester and beyond.
The first four students in the program were:
Alistair McKeough
Liz Mifsud
Gayathri Wijesuriya
Anthony Woo
In second semester 2001 the four students in the program were:
Victor Ding
Grace Yoon
Elizabeth Hristoforidis
Linda Lee
We welcomed the following students for the summer semester 2001/2002, the first intensive clinical legal course at Oz NetLaw:
Ricky Tse
Eleanor Lau
Tai Phan
In First Semester for 2002 we are joined by the students
Judy Kim
Drew Macrae
Viking Wai Kin Kwok
Shirley Fu
Farhan Quettawala
Oz NetLaw and CLC lawyers also teach a range of accredited degree courses for undergraduate and post-graduate students through the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
These include:
*Communications Law
*TV Radio and New Media
*Entertainment Law
*Telecommunications Competition and Consumer Issues
*Legal Issues in New Media
Victoria University
Oz NetLaw and CLC lawyers teach in a range of courses offered through Victoria University that include:
*The Law of Events
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