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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Postgraduate
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Units of Credit: 8
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Contact Hours per Week: 2
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 9220, 5740 or 9230.
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Description
This course pursues particular topical and specialist themes utilising guest speakers, class discussion and student presentations. Particular encouragement is given to students to pursue, if they wish, areas of interest. Examples of topics likely to be covered in 2006 include:
- the impact of the state on policy and decision-making in pre-trial matters and the recognition given to individual rights (such as the right to a fair trial, to silence and/or to liberty) and including where relevant, the impact of Bill of Rights legislation;
- issues associated with prosecutorial charging practices;
- restorative justice (from South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission to youth and drug courts in common law jurisdictions);
- issues arising from countries' decisions to alter their legal practices and their legal institutions - eg, Spain and Japan's move to 'jury' adjudication and Italy's move to an adversarial trials from an inquisitorial ones;
- criminal trial decision-making and advocacy practices in select European and common law countries; and
- how and why differences arise within the common law adversarial legal tradition.
Session 1: Monday 6-8 in Week 2 in the city; 4 x Saturday classes, 9-4 (Week 4, 6, 7, & 9).
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