LAW5500

Moot court

The requirement of LAW5500 is under review for 1998

Mr P Balmford
0 points
* Four lectures in all
* First/second/summer semester
* Clayton
* Prerequisites: enrolment is restricted to students in the last year of enrolment for the LLB degree

Objectives On completion of this subject students should have (1) developed forensic skills, relevant to legal practice, by obtaining further experience in the preparation of legal argument and the oral presentation of that argument; and (2) by means of a substantial exercise in a simulated court setting, taken an opportunity to utilise and reinforce research skills and legal knowledge and understanding obtained in other law subjects.

Synopsis A moot is an exercise in presenting legal argument, on behalf of fictitious parties, before a moot master sitting as judge. Each party is usually represented by two students who must lodge with the moot court secretary, before their moot, a memorandum of their intended argument. Students must (a) attend a course of four lectures; (b) attend a full sitting of the moot court as an observer and make a written report on the conduct of the case; and (c) participate in a moot as counsel and obtain not less than a pass mark. Requirements (a) and (b) must be fulfilled before requirement (c), but (b) may precede (a). Enrolment must be effected, separately from enrolment in other subjects, with the moot court secretary in room 225 of the law building. Students will be assigned to a moot in an area of law related to a subject which they have completed or for which they are currently enrolled.

Assessment Participation in moot lasting approximately 2.5 hours: 100%

Texts

Moot court manual Faculty of Law, Monash University, 1996