Interviewing a Client at the UniSA Legal Advice Clinic

Experienced final year law students at the UniSA Legal Advice Clinic feature in this instructional video. The videos is aimed at training upcoming student advisors on the techniques involved in interviewing a client.

[@EnglishLawyer]

You do not have the right to say to a client their files can be used for educational purposes. The client has the right to deny that yet you did not point that out.

[@DYLEMAHD]

Not necessarily, it may be a term of the clinic's service that the user's of the service have to agree to beforehand.

[@EnglishLawyer]

@@DYLEMAHD I'm sorry you are wrong. As a lawyer, I know the rules. You cannot override a clients privacy. If they don't want their files disclosed, end of story.

[@EnglishLawyer]

@@DYLEMAHD No-one has the right to transgress someones privacy nor use it as a weapon to deny legal or medical or accounting advice.

[@DYLEMAHD]

@@EnglishLawyer At my university's Legal Advice Centre, we gave our clients a Privacy and Confidentiality form which stated that our centre would hold their data in line with GDPR legislation within the confines of the Centre, and that the data would be used (with certain information redacted) to help students with their professional education and the client had to sign it before we could take their case on

[@EnglishLawyer]

@The Nicest Literally or actually? Big difference.