Law Week planned

Press, 19 April 1989, Page 47

Law Week planned

The New Zealand Law Society will run a national Law Week from May 1 to raise public awareness of the law. This year’s theme is “Taking the Law to the People” and among the aims are: • To encourage citizen awareness of the law, how it can help, and rights and duties under the law. • To promote a knowledge of legal structures and institutions in the community. • To enhance understanding of the significance of the rule of law in the community. The Canterbury District Law Society has planned a week-long programme of public information and activity, including daily newspaper articles on legal topics and seminars and panel discussions. Walking tours of the court buildings, a free “phone-in” legal information service, and a school visits programme are also planned.

• A pictorial date stamp has been. produced to mark the first Law

Week. The stamp includes the Law Week logo designed by the Wellington District Law Week Committee set up to organise the campaign. The date stamp will be used in Wellington on Wednesday, May 3, 1989. The Wellington District Law Society produced a special envelope for cancelling with the date stamp. Collectors are invited to send $1.50, and an envelope with their name and address to the Wellington District Law Society, P.O. Box 494, Wellington, to get a cover. Covers can be sent to the Wellington Philatelic Centre of New Zealand Post for cancelling with the special date stamp on May 3. Those unable to mail their stamped addressed covers from the Wellington Philatelic Centre on May 3, can forward them in an outer envelope labelled “Law Week Covers” to the manager of the N.Z. Post Philatelic Centre by April 27.