Course

Land and Environment Court Clinic - JURD7502

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 9

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Completion of 36 UOC of JURD courses including Admin. Law (JURD7160) and Equity & Trusts (JURD7285) for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, 72 UOC of JURD courses including Admin. Law and Equity & Trusts.

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The Land and Environment Court Clinic is an experiential learning program. In this course students will put their legal skills and knowledge to use and gain practical experience of the law in action. At the same time they will be critically analysing the effect of law and legal policy on members of the community in a court setting.Students will be assisting court staff in research and and assisting people who have planning and environmental law problems . The work will involve research, interviewing clients, and assisting clients under the supervision of Court staff in completing forms, finding resources etc.

Students will spend 1 day (7 hours-9am to 5pm) at the Land and Environment Court each week for 12 weeks. There will be a induction program at the Court which is compulsory for all students. Students will have 2 hours of interactive seminars each week. Students may also be involved in research and policy work relevant to the court.


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