Australian clinical legal education: Models and definitions

The term clinical legal education means different things to academics, legal practitioners and students. In our survey results forBest Practices, the data illustrate the variety of forms and models encompassed within this term. In particular, it is apparent that newer clinical legal education programs are often quite different from the community legal centre-based real client clinics developed in the 1970s and 1980s (see Chapter 5). To ground the process of formulating best practices in Australian clinical legal education and make the best practices as meaningful as possible across a range of endeavours, it was necessary when conducting the research