Legal Experience 2 - LAWS1124
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- To enable students to gain familiarity and practical experience dealing with the legal system
- To demonstrate how the study of law can be put into practice to assist people in our community
- To learn about the legal aid system and access to justice issues
- To ground some of the theoretical aspects of legal ethics and professional responsibility
- To engage students with other later year law students through a mentoring scheme
Main Topics
- Theory and practice of legal interviewing
- Functioning of the Legal Aid Commission
- What happens at a Local Court?
- The community legal centre sector, Aboriginal Legal Services and other legal aid services
- How does a client file develop and the steps involved in bringing a case to court
- Legal education
- Legal ethics
- Types of lawyering
- Representing a client
- Admission to practice
- Professional discipline
- Conflicts of interest
- Confidentiality
Assessment
Class participation: 20%
Class presentation: 25%
Problem-solving assignment: 30%
Scrapbook and reflective writing: 25%
Course Texts
- Reading Materials available from UNSW Bookshop.
- Kay Lauchland and Marlene Le Brun, Legal Interviewing: Theory, Tactics and Techniques, Butterworths, Sydney, 1996
- Ainslie Lamb and John Littrich, Lawyers in Australia, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2007
- Ysaiah Ross, Ethics in Law, 4th edn, LexisNexis Butterworths, Sydney, 2005
- Christine Parker and Adrian Evans, Inside Lawyers’ Ethics, CUP, Melbourne, 2007
Study Levels
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