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Administrative Law (Housing) Clinic - LAWS3300

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisites: Land Law (LAWS2383/JURD7283) and Resolving Civil Disputes (LAWS2371/JURD7271) OR Property, Equity & Trusts 2 (LAWS2382/JURD7282) and Litigation 1 (LAWS2311/JURD7211).

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The Administrative Law (Housing) 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 the will be critically analysing the effect of law and legal policy on disadvantaged clients in a community legal centre setting.Students will be assisting and advising disadvantaged people who have administrative and housing law problems . The work will involve interviewing clients, and advising clients under the supervision of Redfern Legal Centre staff, preparing cases for the Consumer Trader and Tenancy Tribunal and in some cases appearing for clients in the Tribunal in these cases.

Students will spend 1 day (7 hours-9am to 5pm) at Redfern Legal Centre each week for 12 weeks. There will be a half day induction program at the Centre which is compulsory for all students.

Students will also be involved in research and policy work, community legal education work.

Course Aims

To develop students' knowledge of administrative law and procedure particularly in housing law as well as an ability to think critically about the role of housing law in the community in terms of human rights and social justice. The course will also develop student's skills in drafting interviewing and advocacy.

Course Outcomes

  1. Understand the fundamentals of legal processes and practice and procedure in administrative law in the public housing area
  2. Think critically about the role of Tribunals, and administrative law in the housing law area and the impact on disadvantaged people
  3. Conduct academic research on housing law
  4. Understand and be able to think critically about government legislative policy in housing law
  5. Understand and be able to think critically about the legal processes in administrative law and their impact on disadvantaged communities
  6. Engage in informed discussion on housing law and policy.
  7. Interview clients, draft correspondence , conduct applied legal research.

Assessment

30% - Produce a 3,000 word article or other research written work as directed on some aspect of the Centres administrative law work.

40% - Presentation.

30% - Demonstrate satisfactory performance in placement through an evaluation report from their supervisor.
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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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