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The New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council was appointed by the New South Wales Cabinet on 8th July, 1947. With the New South Wales Minister for Education, Hon. Robert J. Heffron, as Chairman, the inaugural meeting of the Developmental Council occurred on 27th August, 1947. This meeting was attended by fourteen out of the total seventeen members of the Developmental Council. Six Committees were also created at the meeting - Building & Grounds, Industrial Co-operation, Academic Studies, Administration, Finance and Public Relations. As well, the Development Council established that its Terms of Reference were to: i) exercise immediate control over the Institute; ii) recommend the principles that should be established for the co-operation between the Institute and industry in the carrying out of industrial research and co-operation between the Institute and other educational and scientific bodies; iii) advise on the nature of buildings and equipment most appropriate for the purposes of the Institute; iv) make recommendations covering the appropriate structure for the future control of the Institute and its authorities, powers and functions; v) survey present technical college courses in the light of the needs of industry and where necessary recommend the establishment of appropriate courses at graduate and postgraduate levels and recommend the nature of academic awards at the completion of these courses; vi) in the light of the foregoing enquiries, draft legislation for the incorporation of the Institute as one which a) provides technological courses at university degree and postgraduate levels; b) grants awards to those who complete its courses; c) carries out investigations aimed at adapting scientific discoveries to industrial purposes; and d) is soundly and democratically controlled; vii) recommend the co-ordination which should exist between the University of Sydney and the Institute The name changes of the Developmental Council reflect the variations in the proposed names for the University. From the 16th September, 1948 until the 18th November, 1948 meetings the Council was known as the New South Wales Technical University Developmental Council. Then beginning with the 24th February, 1949 meeting, the name became the New South Wales University of Technology Developmental Council. Apart from formulating the necessary legislation for the establishment of the University, the Developmental Council also made several important advances in the introduction of courses. On 22nd January, 1948 it approved the beginning of the first degree courses in Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Mining Engineering, which were undertaken at Sydney Technical College from March, 1948. On 21st October, 1948 the Developmental Council endorsed degree courses in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, as well as a post-graduate course in Electrical Engineering, which started in March, 1949. The final meeting of the Developmental Council occurred on 26th May, 1949. With the proclamation of the Technical Education & New South Wales University of Technology Act, 1949 on 1st July, 1949, the functions of the Developmental Council were complete. Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Administration Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology (1947 - 1948) / New South Wales Technical University (1948) Developmental Council Academic Studies Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Building & Grounds Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Co-ordinating Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Finance Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Industrial Co-operation Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949 Subordinate agency: New South Wales Institute of Technology Developmental Council Public Relations Committee - 27/08/1947 - 30/06/1949

The idea for a community legal centre was first proposed in a paper entitled Professional Practice and discussed at a staff seminar on 2 April 1980 (Clinical Legal Education in papers for School of Law 16 September 1980 meeting). At the 14 October 1980 meeting of the School of Law, a Clinical Legal Education Committee was established to investigate this proposal. This committee reported back to the School on 14 April 1981 and it was then decided to proceed with a concept where two solicitors, who would be members of the full-time academic staff, would be appointed to supervise the work at the clinic and apart from this the subject would also have a seminar component to be supervised by the director of the clinic who would be a member of the teaching academic staff. On 4 May 1981 Dean Professor Ronald Sackville wrote to the Vice-Chancellor Professor Rupert Myers with a proposal for a legal clinic to commence operations from Semester 2, 1981, which in 1981 began on 20 July. After some discussion, on 21 May 1981 Professor Myers approved the proposal as an experiment of about nine months' duration with no forward commitment on anyone's part beyond that (file 035392). This decision was announced at the 2 June 1981 meeting of the School of Law, who gave their own approval to the idea. The first Director of the Centre was lecturer Neil Rees. The Clinic was located at located at 11 Rainbow St, Kingsford and was formerly opened on 9 September, 1981 (Uniken, 4 September 1981). By this time it had become known as the Kingsford Legal Centre and as David Nichols notes in the history From the Roundabout to the Roundhouse, it is not recorded exactly how the 'Kingsford' name took precedence, but it is presumably related to the location of the premises offered by Randwick Council and a desire to include residents of the adjoining Botany area while at the same time retaining a sense of local character (page 10). In a review of the Centre's operations in 1991, its then director Simon Rice also stated that Kingsford Legal Centre was not established as a separate legal entity...It was and remains only a name, used by the Faculty to identify the place at which one of its subjects is taught. The legal practice is in effect a private practice, with the benefit of the professional indemnity insurance and auditing facilities of the university (cited in From the Roundabout to the Roundhouse, pg 10). At the 20 October 1981 meeting of the Faculty of Law, a Kingsford Legal Centre Advisory Committee was established to review and advise on the operations of the Kingsford Legal Centre and on its role in the teaching and other activities of the Faculty. With the opening of the new law building in July 2006, Kingsford Legal Centre was re-located from its position in Kingsford to the rest of the faculty on the university campus. In 2007 the Director of the Centre was Anna Cody. Controlling Organisation: UNSW - by 20/07/1981-