News and Events 2006

November

Rhodes Success in 2006

For the second year in succession, the Rhodes Scholarship for Western Australia has been awarded to a graduate of the UWA Law School. The winner in 2006, Travers McLeod, graduated with First Class Honours in Law and Arts. He was President of the Blackstone Society in 2005 and is currently an Associate to Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. Three of the other five finalists for the Scholarship were also UWA Law students: Andrew Nicol, Anthony Lepere and Julia Powles.

Our warmest congratulations to Travers and the other finalists.

Photo: Travers McLeod

Duncan Rock winner 2006 Australian Singing Competition

October

UWA Law Students at Oxford

Congratulations to our Law graduates who are spending this year at Magdalen College, Oxford, shown here at the matriculation ceremony.

photo oxford

Photo, from Left: Ben Spagnolo, Lee Carroll, Alaina Newnes and Andrew Lodder. Absent from the photo: Geoffrey Kuehne, another of our graduates also studying at Oxford, at Wadham College.

More shots of Magdalen College: Cloisters, New Building and Great Tower, St Swithun's Buildings and New Library

Blackstone Awarded Best Faculty Society

The UWA Student Guild awarded Best Faculty Society 2006 to Law's Blackstone Society.

"The Best Faculty Society award is designed to keep faculties up and running at the greatest possible level in order to make students' university experience as beneficial, entertaining and rewarding as can be imagined"!

Photos L-R: Alex Mossop (Blackstone Vice President (Education)), Emma Jones (Secretary), Henny Smith and Matt Glucina (Blackstone President-elect), admiring the award at the Guild Ball held 20th October 2006.

When Three Heads are Better Than One!

What do combinatorial mathematicians and lawyers have in common?

The answer is - a creative solution to a tricky problem in the very popular "Negotiation and Mediation" intensive run tri-annually by the Law School.

An approach was made to the UWA Shool of Mathematics and Statistics. Stats gurus Kevin Murray and Berwin Turlach of the Statistical Consulting Group, (pictured with unit coordinator Jill Howieson), confirmed Law's fears; this was indeed a mammoth combinatorial exercise! How they went about it.

September

Our former Associate Dean, Martin Flynn has been appointed to the Magistrates Court of Western Australia.

Attorney General Jim McGinty announced the appointment on 1st September in a press release, stating, "Mr Flynn was an experienced and well-respected legal practitioner".

Martin commenced his appointment on Monday 4 September and will be based at the Central Law Courts whilst making regular circuit visits to the Geraldton Magistrates Court.

Martin was appointed as a senior lecturer within the University of Western Australia Law School in 1998 and in 2005 he became Associate Dean. He is pictured here (front far left) with students and fellow Law Faculty staff after a soccer match held during Equity and Diversity Week, August 2006. (students won, 1-0)