Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics

Course code: 2772 (on-campus); 3389 (off-campus) * Course abbreviation: PgradDipLegPractice * Total credit points required: 48 * 21 weeks full-time, 39 weeks part-time (multimodal)

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Melbourne city and Clayton campus)

Off-campus (some attendance required at Melbourne city and Clayton campus)

Course description

This course is designed to cover the main fields of practice, skills and ethics through a combination of clinical and other methods. On completion, graduates may satisfy the post-degree practical requirements for admission to legal practice in Victoria. They will have to complete two years employment as an employee practitioner before qualifying for a full practising certificate.*

* While Monash Faculty of Law may recognise qualifications for entry to the PDLP course, it is the Council of Legal Education which determines whether particular tertiary qualifications will satisfy the rules for the purpose of admission to practice. Therefore, all applicants intending to qualify to practice should check that their tertiary qualifications comply with these rules prior to commencement of the course.

Course structure

The diploma is organised around nine sequential coursework units for on-campus and eight sequential coursework units for off-campus allocated to practice fields, together with the clinical unit which runs for the full duration of the course. All students undertake the following:

LAW7403 Ethics and professional responsibility
LAW7401 Civil litigation practice
LAW7402 Commercial and corporate practice
LAW7408 Property law practice
LAW7292 Professional legal skills
LAW7410 Trust and office accounting

plus a legal placement unit:

LAW7415 Legal clinic (on-campus)
LAW7412 Clinical legal placement (off-campus)

plus electives as indicated below:

Elective 1

Off-campus choose one of, on-campus choose 2 of:

LAW7411 Administrative law practice
LAW7405 Criminal law practice
LAW7407 Family law practice

Elective 2

One of:

LAW7413 Consumer law practice
LAW7406 Employment and industrial relations practice
LAW7414 Planning and environmental law practice

Contact details

PDLP postgraduate studies officer, telephone +61 3 9641 6200, email pdlp@law.monash.edu.au or visit www.law.monash.edu.au/pdlp/index.html.

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