Law Handbook, 1998: Monash University, Australia - Contents
Faculty information
Introduction to the faculty
Structure and organisation of the faculty
Undergraduate law courses offered
Course planning
Aims and objectives of undergraduate degree courses
General
Part-time studies
External studies
Graduate law courses offered
Graduate courses
Details of courses
International students
English language difficulties
Disability support program
Student advisers
Student responsibility for subject choices
Set work and class attendance
General
Calculators
Transcription
Assessment
General
Fail mark verification procedure
Faxing of assignments
Special consideration
Supplementary and special examinations
Special (deferred) examinations
Supplementary examinations
Access to examination scripts
Communication with examiners and finality of results
Policy for feedback on class tests, research papers and essays
Cheating
General
Plagiarism
University discipline procedures
Unsatisfactory progress
General
Criteria to be applied in reviewing academic progress and in considering students for exclusion
Right of appeal
Enrolment and re-enrolment
Enrolment
Re-enrolment
Enrolment in summer semester
Timetables
Credit for work done elsewhere
Leave of absence
Grievance procedures
General
Individual student complaints
Complaints about administrative matters
Student support services
The Law Library
The collection
Student computer laboratory
Legibook
Student societies
Monash Law Students Society
The Monash Law Graduate Students Association (MLGSA)
Student representation
Law School Liaison Committee
Monash University Law Review
Community legal centres
The centres
Lawyers Practice Manual
Careers information for undergraduate students
Careers for lawyers
Admission to practise
Arts/law career opportunities
Business (banking and finance)/law career opportunities
Business (management)/law career opportunities
Commerce/law and economics/law career opportunities
Engineering/law career opportunities
Science/law career opportunities
Music/law career opportunities
Business systems/law career opportunities
Further information
Outline of undergraduate studies
LLB course objectives
Objectives
Objectives for compulsory core of degree
The elective program
Course planning and subject selection
General
LAW1100 (Legal process) quota
Sequence in law subjects for non-law students
Numbering of subjects
Compulsory subjects
Elective subjects
Subjects outlined
Compulsory subjects
Elective subjects
Duplication of subjects
Teaching in LLB subjects
Classes
Description of the structure of each degree
Bachelor of Jurisprudence (BJuris)
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
1 Straight from school
2 Transfer after completing first-year non-law (forty-eight points) or after completing an undergraduate degree
Combined courses
The honours degree of Bachelor of Laws LLB (Hons)
Details of undergraduate subjects
Textbooks
Preliminary reading for law students
Purchase of textbooks
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts
Reference books
Subjects
Prizes
List of prizes
The Alec Masel Prize for Civil Procedure
The Arthur Andersen Prize for Taxation
The Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks prizes for Company Law
The Baldwins Prize for Wills, Probate and Administration
The Blake Dawson Waldron Prize for Contract
The Brian Benjamin Prize for Equity and Trusts
The Butterworths prizes
The Clayton Utz prizes for Torts
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Prizes
The Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize for Restrictive Trade Practices
The Corrs Chambers Westgarth Prize for Intellectual Property
The Ferrier Hodgson Prize for Insolvency
The Freehill Hollingdale and Page Prize for Industrial Arbitration
The Freehill Hollingdale and Page Prize for Corporations and Business Associations Law
The Hall and Wilcox Prize for The Lawyer
The Herbert Geer and Rundle Prize for Insurance Law/Credit and Security Law
The Holding Redlich Prize for best final year honours thesis
The Holding Redlich Prize for Media Law
The Mallesons Stephen Jaques prizes
The Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Prize for Maritime Law
The National Australia Banking Law Prize for Australian Banking Law
The Peter Twining Prize for Torts Law
The Purves Clarke Richards Prize for Contract
The Sir Charles Lowe Moot Prize
The Sir Owen Dixon International Commission of Jurists Law Prize for International Law
The State Insurance Consumer Appeals Centre Prize
The Supreme Court Exhibition Prize
The Supreme Court Prize
The graduate program
Introduction
Objectives
Master of Laws
General objectives
Master of Laws (coursework and minor thesis and coursework alone)
Doctor of Philosophy
Duration of candidature
Single subject enrolments
Enrolment and re-enrolment
Enrolment commencing students
Re-enrolment continuing students
Assessment
General
Special consideration
Special (deferred) examinations
Unsatisfactory progress
Leave of absence/intermission of studies
Student advisers
Faculty credit policy
Cross-institutional course studies
Master of Laws (LLM) program
Coursework and minor thesis and coursework alone
LLM subjects
Thesis requirement of the LLM program
Grievance procedures
General
Individual student complaints
Complaints about administrative matters
General information
Graduate student representation
Student societies
Computer laboratory
Services
Details of graduate subjects
Resolutions of the faculty board pursuant to the Faculty of Law regulations
Resolutions
1 Approval of and credit for subjects
BJuris/LLB
BA/LLB
BSc/LLB
1.3.1 Alternative 1
1.3.2 Alternative 2
BEc/LLB
BCom/LLB
BBus(Mgt)/LLB
BBus(Bkg&Fin)/LLB
MB BS/LLB
BBusSys/LLB
BMus/LLB
BE/LLB
Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)
LLB
2 Elective subjects
Table 1
3 Prerequisites
Table 2
4 Duplication of subjects
Table 3
5 Honours classification and order of merit
6 Moot court
7 Graduate studies delegations
Index of subjects
Index of subject codes
Index of subject names