BackIOI President, Western Australian Ombudsman and Adjunct Professor in the School of Law at the University of Western Australia, Chris Field PSM, this week had the pleasure of providing the Keynote Session to the intensive, five-day advanced administrative law unit in the University of Western Australia law degree, Government Accountability: Law, Policy and Practice.
The Unit was founded 12 years ago by the Ombudsman and Professor Simon Young, one of Australia’s leading administrative law scholars and teachers. This year the students received guest lectures from a number of leading statutory officers as well as staff of the office of the Ombudsman. The closing Q&A panel session featured three outstanding future women leaders from the office of the Ombudsman, all graduates of the School of Law at UWA. Indeed, one of these staff members, Emma Obst, undertook the course during her law degree. It was a singular pleasure for the Ombudsman to Chair this session and, more generally, have the opportunity to inculcate in students an interest in public law and policy, good governance, the rule of law and human rights.
Source: The Office of the Western Australian Ombudsman
