LPP112 Work Skills
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| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | LPZ112 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $2,028 |
| International unit fee | $3,828 |
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 02A 2024, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 08 Jan 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
| Coordinators: | Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 02A 2024, Online (Start Date: 08 Jan 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 03A 2024, Online (Start Date: 04 Mar 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2024, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 22 Jul 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
| Coordinators: | Craig Smith | c7.smith@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2024, Online (Start Date: 22 Jul 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 09A 2024, Online (Start Date: 12 Aug 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP112 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ112 |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to develop and demonstrate competence in the values, work and risk management capabilities and financial awareness that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council’s (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee’s (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners. Those standards have been adopted in Queensland as part of the admission rules for the legal profession. This unit covers the values of Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the skills areas of Trust and Office Accounting and Work Management and Business Skills described in those standards.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate ethical understandings, legal and procedural knowledge, skills and values, including commitment to pro bono service, to identifying and solving practical ethical and professional problems (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3)
- Apply a knowledge of trust accounting practices and procedures to transactions involving client money and comply with the law and regulation relating to costs disclosure and costs agreements (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 1.4, 2.1, 2.2, 4.4)
- Apply appropriate work management and risk management knowledge and skills in running a client matter (CLOs 1.2, 2.1, 4.4)
- Demonstrate awareness of resilience and wellness issues and practices as they commonly affect legal practitioners (CLO 4.1)
Content
- Indentifying and resolving ethical and professional problems
- Recording dealings with client money
- File and risk management
- Personal wellbeing.
Learning Approaches
This unit engages you in your learning through a problem-based learning approach. The unit's content and its organisation are designed to facilitate your acquisition of relevant knowledge, skills and values for professional admission. The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a five-day attendance school on-campus and online problem solving activities for you to work on, supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials.
The teaching and learning approaches emanate from Laudrillard's Conversational Framework, which views the learning process as a kind of conversation that must be constituted as a dialogue between teacher and student (or student and student). In this way Laudrillard classifies educational media as discursive, adaptive, interactive and reflective and raises issues about the nature of feedback, goals and the control of student learning. One aspect of the Laudrillard model points to practical forms of assessment where the teacher utilises something in the 'real' world for the student to examine and interact with and upon which to reflect. Collaborative learning and peer review are also employed.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- You will find guidance for completing problems in the 'hints' for the task. Some hints provide formative feedback in that they anticipate questions and responses that you may have or make in completing the problem.
- You can seek advice and assistance from staff during the attendance school or online.
- You will receive feedback on work as it is submitted.
- You may receive some generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas.
Assessment
Overview
To pass this unit you must complete all assessment items to either a passing standard (for graded assessment items) or a satisfactory standard (for satisfactory/not satisfactory assessment items) in accordance with the relevant Criterion Referenced Assessment (CRA) rubric.
All assessment items are in the form of a practical task that a lawyer is likely to encounter in practice. The assessment items enable you to demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission. Assessment items will require you to synthesise and apply a range of knowledge, lawyering skills, values and thinking skills.
Some assessment items are assessed on a 'satisfactory/not satisfactory' scale. You must complete all those items to a satisfactory standard with reference to the relevant CRA rubric. If you do not complete an item to a satisfactory standard on your first attempt, you will be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Some assessment items are assessed against criteria that will provide you with a mark for the assessment item. The marks that you receive on your first attempt for all assessment items will determine your overall grade for the unit. Marks will be awarded according to the relevant CRA rubric. If your attempt at such an assessment item (or any part thereof) is assessed at less than a grade of 4 on any criterion on the relevant CRA rubric, you may be asked to do further work on the item to demonstrate you can complete the work to a satisfactory standard for professional admission purposes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz/Test
In this task you answer a a series of multiple choice questions and short answer questions that are designed to expose you to how ethical and professional dilemmas can present themselves in practice. The task will also require you to demonstrate an awareness of where a practising lawyer can seek assistance in dealing with ethical and professional challenges in practice.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Problem solving task
This requires you to analyse a complex fact scenario and provide written advice to a law firm principal on the ethical and professional issues that you identify in the scenario. The task will also require you to provide advice on opportunities that the firm may have for pro bono work in the scenario and to provide advice on how the lawyers in involved in scenario can obtain support relating to their well-being and resilience in the situation described in the scenario.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete this assessment item to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Assessment: Portfolio
This portfolio consists of an advice memo (Task 1), a series of practical legal accounting problems (Task 2) and the application of trust accounting knowledge in the context of maintaining a client file and managing risk Task 3). Task 1 refreshes the understanding of trust accounting concepts you gained in your undergraduate degree and tests your ability to apply those concepts in solving practical problems. Task 2 complements Task 1 by providing you with an opportunity to complete a series of bookkeeping transactions required by a problem scenario. These transactions require you to apply your conceptual and practical knowledge of solicitors' trust accounting and bookkeeping to resolving common trust accounting problems and to receipting and outlaying client money according to law and good practice. Task 3 requires you to apply your trust accounting and risk management knowledge in the context of creating and maintaining a client file.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must complete all the tasks in this portfolio to a satisfactory standard to demonstrate competence in these tasks as described in the Law Admissions Consultative Committee's (LACC) standards for the pre-admission practical training of Australian legal practitioners.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.LP41 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Identify and apply relevant legal principles in the areas of practice that are required for admission to the Australian legal profession
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Apply principles and practices relating to solicitors' trust accounting
Relates to: ULO2, Quiz/Test, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Use reflective practice to develop professional identity and resilience
Relates to: ULO1, ULO4, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Demonstrate ethical practice, professional responsibility and identify opportunities for pro bono service
Relates to: ULO1, Quiz/Test, Problem solving task, Portfolio - Manage client work in a professional manner including risk management
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Quiz/Test, Portfolio