by Francine Foster
Secretary – GBA
Highlights of Law Week 2008 include visits to secondary schools by lawyers; visits by secondary school students to the courts; a Pro Bono Day (free legal consultation) in Grenville; social activities involving members of the legal fraternity; a donation to the Sir Archibald Nedd Law Law Library; a donation to charity; visits to the Prisons & Police Stations; and several radio and television programmes touching and concerning areas of the law of special public interest.
Topics for the radio and television programmes cover such areas as homosexuality, abortion, sale of Government lands (moral & legal perspective), capital punishment, drug use and euthanasia (painlessly putting to death persons suffering from incurable and distressing disease as an act of mercy).
Among the actual topics for public debate during the week are: “The sale of Government land is solely an issue of law and has nothing to do with morality”; “A person’s sexual orientation is a personal choice and should not be restricted by law”; and “The death penalty – a question of law or morality?”
Throughout the week secondary school students will be visiting the various Magistrates’ and High Courts to witness trials and get first hand experience of court procedure. Lawyers too will visit schools to engage students on the various topics covered by this year’s theme.
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