On October 30th, 2023 Iryna Bohatiuk, the director of the Legal consultation “Legal Clinic” of the Faculty of Law of the National Aviation University, together with Oleksandr Kuts, a legal consultant, and Yana Redka, a student-consultant, held a workshop on the theme “Legal clinic and its role in the training the future lawyers" for the 2nd year students of the Bachelor’s degree, specialty 081 “Law”.
The organizers of the event told the participants about a history of the establishment and development of legal clinics in the world and in Ukraine, a concept and a social role of legal clinical education, a purpose, the tasks and the main directions of activity of the Legal consultation “Legal Clinic” as a structural unit of a higher education institution of the III-IV levels of accreditation, which makes the training the specialists in the branch “Law”.
During the workshop, the legal and corporate standards of legal clinical education were presented to the students, they were introduced to the state guarantees on the provision of free legal aid, and the methods and tools of providing the legal aid by the legal clinic were analysed. The participants were also informed about the activities of the Legal consultation “Legal Clinic” of NAU, its structure, personnel, work schedule, interaction with the All-Ukrainian public organization “Association of Legal Clinics of Ukraine”.
“The advantage of the legal clinic is that here student-consultants acquire practical abilities and skills and see how to protect the rights of person on the base of law. The participants of the legal clinic, obtaining the specific professional skills, do not need the additional adaptation to the professional activity”, - concluded Iryna Bohatiuk and invited the students to join the team of Legal consultation “Legal Clinic” of NAU.