SUPPORTING ART S , L AW AND ARCHITEC TURE
Law scholarship recipient becomes part of the family The story of first year law student Samuel Adams and the connection he has made to his benefactors – the wife and children of RJ Hand – is special. Samuel has become a part of the family and joins them, when he can, for Sunday lunches. Samuel was awarded the RJ Hand Memorial Scholarship in honour of esteemed general commercial lawyer Robert Hand, a University of Tasmania alumnus. The pair share some parallels in their early lives. Both came from large families and farming backgrounds. Robert was one of nine children, and Samuel is one of eight.
Robert spent three years working on the family farm in Campania, Tasmania, before deciding he wanted to study law, which he achieved after matriculating from school by correspondence and earning a Commonwealth Scholarship. Samuel hails from central Queensland, where he spent summer holidays on his grandparents’ property. “It’s where I learnt to ride horses and did fencing. Mr Hand did all of that sort of thing as a kid,” Samuel said. For Samuel, it was an early career in the army – where he joined the military police – that set him on his legal course, first in the legal/law enforcement space working in minor investigations.
Caroline and Melita Hand with RJ Hand Memorial Scholarship recipient Samuel Adams
Image: Peter Allen
