Meet the man responsible for teaching nearly 100,000 Australian,Kiwi and Asian law graduates how to be lawyers, barristers, QCs, SCs (and very soon ,judges)

by Ganesh Sahathevan


The latest  advertising from the College Of Law.From its website 



The College of Law provides expert commentary on issues affecting the legal profession, including innovation, changes to legal practice, gender and cultural diversity within the law, and legal education. 
To arrange a comment or an interview, please contact our media unit on media@thoughtbroker.com.au or call during business hours on 02 9212 5501.

KEY SPOKESPEOPLE

Neville Carter
Neville's expertise includes:
  • The changing nature of legal practice
  • The skills required to succeed in the legal profession 
  • Legal education policy
  • The costs and value of a legal education
  • International legal practice
Neville Carter


As the Group CEO, Neville Carter leads a team of 400 educators at the College of Law, and is at the forefront of innovation in education, pioneering e-learning in 1997, launching a Masters of Applied Law in 2008, and establishing the Centre for Legal Innovation in 2016.
Neville spearheaded the industry’s drive to raise the professional standards of young lawyers by teaching them the practical skills they need to practise law. While students study law at university, it is the College of Law that teaches them how to be a lawyer.
With a career spanning three decades, Neville is an influential figure in legal circles, having been responsible for the professional education of nearly 100,000 lawyers in Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Beginning in Sydney in 1996, Neville has grown the College of Law into the largest and most successful provider of legal education in the Asia Pacific. The College now has a national footprint with office in Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Canberra and Adelaide.
Under Neville’s Leadership, the College has successfully pursued international expansion and now offers training in Auckland, Wellington, London, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
Neville was the editor of the Journal of Professional Legal Education (JPLE) for nine years, has published a large number of papers on education and has presented at numerous international conferences, on topics ranging from legal education policy, the changing nature of legal practice and legal education innovation.


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The ‘practical’ in PLT under fire


“I drafted forms and affidavits in college. But I didn’t get a real idea about what it was about until I worked, and got this job. Maybe that says I wasn’t sufficiently involved in the learning process. But I still maintain that you have to be in the law to learn from it,” he said.


“My solicitor friends say that some things are quite important to do in college, such as trust accounting. But, on the whole, it isn’t the kind of diploma that is giving you a great deal of hands on knowledge. Ninety per cent of what I have learnt so far I learnt through work experience” .

Stephanie Booker, another PLT student, questioned whether ‘practical legal training’ is an accurate term. “[My course] certainly taught me where to look for things that I may need — rules, areas of law... As for helping me to apply these rules, there is a huge difference between the reality of my workplace and the comfort of my PLT course. For example, I find that the way I draft letters for [my course] is not acceptable in my workplace, and vice versa.”



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