The reputation of Legal Studies as a subject for the real world was enhanced on Monday, 30 January, when Hillcrest’s 22 Year 12 Legal students winged their way to Brisbane City on an express train to become immersed in the criminal justice system, which they are studying in depth this term.
After having the honour of spending half an hour talking to Queensland Supreme Court Justice Debra Mullins about her highly relevant experiences and perspectives as a criminal trial judge, the students enjoyed an invaluable seminar presented by a Supreme Court Library Education Officer, dealing specifically with a criminal case central to their investigations this term.
These authoritative sources of legal learning were then compellingly contextualised in the raw reality of several Supreme & District Court criminal court hearings observed by Hillcrest’s attentive young ‘legal eagles’, who returned to the ‘nest’ (Room 70) with a soaring sense of the urgent need to champion legal reform in response to injustices prevailing in our society.
At the heart of the study of Legal Studies at the College, as students seek God’s wisdom in dealing with controversial legal issues, is the Biblical exhortation “… to act justly and to love mercy …” (Micah 6:8).
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