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Administrative Justice - LAWS3048
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 28
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740 or 9230
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course provides a comprehensive coverage of the mechanisms for achieving administrative justice, including systemic issues such as access and the structuring of review and scrutiny mechanisms. The focus is on extra-judicial means of redress for individual grievances against bodies exercising public power, including investigation and adjudication processes.


LLM Specialisation

Human Rights and Social Justice.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Administrative Law.

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this subject should:
  • Understand the institutional framework, principles, and values of administrative justice
  • Understand the main policy, legal and regulatory issues raised by the topics for the course
  • Have a critical familiarity with the mechanisms for access to information, privacy issues, and review mechanisms
  • Be able to critically evaluate the information and ideas presented in the course and write a sustained and justified argument on a topic central to the course in the form of a research essay

Main Topics

  • Public policy and ethical dimensions of administrative justice
  • Institutional frameworks
  • Access issues, including language and culture, and legal assistance
  • Access to information, including reasons
  • Privacy issues
  • Assessing the effectiveness of review mechanisms, including internal review, determinative and advisory review
  • The role of tribunals in delivering administrative justice

Assessment

Class participation, including tribunal report 800 - 1,000 words 30%
Research paper 5,500 - 6,500 words 70%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed
Texts and resources for this course will be listed approximately 1 month prior to class commencing.

Recommended
Texts and resources for this course will be listed approximately 1 month prior to class commencing.

Resources

Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer at the beginning of session.

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