Professional legal skills
(
6 points,
SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL)
Leader: Associate Professor Gaye Lansdell
Offered:
City First semester 2006 (On-campus)
City SA-02 2006 (On-campus)
City Second semester 2006 (On-campus)
City Summer 2006 (On-campus)
City T3-58 2006 (On-campus)
Synopsis:
Assessment: Online courses 3389 and 3390: Skills individually assessed, according to the PDLP performance guides. Grades of Pass, Pass with Credit (60%), Pass with Merit (70%) used in the PDLP are used in this unit. Students must pass each assessment in order to pass the unit. The assessment tasks for each skill are: Structured Client Interviewing: simulated client interview + Advising: written plan of advice (based on instructions taken in simulated client interview) + Electronic legal research: research memorandum + Plain English letter writing: letter of advice to client and letter to opposing solicitor based on research done for electronic legal research + Drafting (litigious and non-litigious): preparation of statement of claim and formal agreement respectively + Negotiating: satisfactory participation + Mediation and Commercial ADR: satisfactory participation; Advocacy: satisfactory participation. On campus course 2772: Skills individually assessed, according to the PDLP performance guides. Grades of Pass, Pass with Credit (60%), Pass with Merit (70%) used in the PDLP are used in this unit. Students must pass each assessment in order to pass the unit. The assessment tasks for each skill are: Drafting: completion of 7 in-course drafting assessments: 20% + Interviewing: completion of one oral interviewing exercise in the final week: 20% + Advising: completion of one oral advising exercise in the final week: 20% + Negotiation: completion of one oral negotiation exercise in the final week: 20% + Advocacy: completion of one plea in mitigation in a criminal matter in the final week: 10% + Advocacy: completion of one oral court submission in civil litigation in the final week:10%
