Abstract

Elaine Hall introduces this year's Winter issue and flags up important events in the world of CLE for 2019.

Highlights

  • Once I carried him milk in a bottle Corked sloppily with paper

  • Seamus Heaney’s 1966 poem ‘Digging’ speaks to the dignity of all kinds of labour and in this spirit we offer you many kinds of action, many ways to make a clinical mark on the world, many tools with which to dig

  • In our Practice report, Frances Ridout, Deirdre Gilchrist and Jeremy Dunn report on the work at Queen Mary University of London where an active and positive engagement with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner has led to new insights and practice – an object lesson of how to ‘dig in’ to the possibilities

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Summary

The Clinical is Political

By God, the old man could handle a spade. Just like his old man. In our Practice report, Frances Ridout, Deirdre Gilchrist and Jeremy Dunn report on the work at Queen Mary University of London where an active and positive engagement with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner has led to new insights and practice – an object lesson of how to ‘dig in’ to the possibilities. In this edition, a focus on tools: if we are going to dig as well as spades we might need hoes, picks and shovels. Paul Dargue’s review of Empirical Legal Research In Action reminds us to look beyond our accustomed tools to what might be revealed if we picked up another

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