LPP116 Electives
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| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Antirequisite(s): | LPZ116 |
| 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 - 03A 2024, Online (Start Date: 08 Jan 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 03A 2024, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 05 Feb 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
| Coordinators: | Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 03A 2024, Online (Start Date: 05 Feb 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 05A 2024, Online (Start Date: 01 Apr 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 06A 2024, Online (Start Date: 29 Apr 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 08A 2024, Online (Start Date: 24 Jun 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 10A 2024, Gardens Point, Internal (Start Date: 19 Aug 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
| Coordinators: | Allan Chay | a.chay@qut.edu.au |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 10A 2024, Online (Start Date: 19 Aug 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 11A 2024, Online (Start Date: 09 Sep 2024)
| Unit code: | LPP116 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | Completion of a Bachelor of Laws Degree |
| Anti-requisite: | LPZ116 |
Overview
In this unit you choose two practice areas from the eight practice areas that the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC) have designated as the eight 'elective' practice areas for the purpose of admission to the legal profession. People who wish to be admitted to the legal profession in Australia are required to have demonstrated basic competence in two of those eight areas. This unit provides you with an opportunity to explore the two areas of practice that you choose from the eight.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply appropriate legal and procedural knowledge, skills, values and creative thinking in two selected areas of practice (Course Learning Outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3)
- Communicate your advice on the legal, factual, evidentiary and other aspects of client matters in those areas in language appropriate to clients and other parties (depending on the situation) (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1)
- Draft relevant legal documents and make persuasive written and oral submissions to third parties such as tribunals, courts and government agencies (CLOs 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.3, 4.2)
Content
- Represent a client in her or his interactions with government agencies, tribunals and courts (as appropriate) in two selected areas of practice
- Research and advise on law and procedure in two selected areas of practice, relevant to the client's instructions
- Document client applications, submissions, requests and dealings as appropriate.
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, to assess your progress in the unit and the course, and to provide evidence that you can meet unit and course outcomes and demonstrate competence in practice areas, skills and values relevant to professional admission.
The unit adopts a blended learning approach, which includes a fortnightly briefing or online briefing note and online problem-solving activities for you to work on supported by online resources and 'authentic' problem materials. You will also have face-to-face or online access to peers and lectures to support you when working with problem material.
The unit is conducted within the bounds of Laudrillard's conversational framework, utilising real world assessment, and employs collaborative learning and peer review.
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 briefing sessions or online.
- You will receive progressive feedback on work as it is submitted. Some of this feedback will be formative as it will assist you to prepare subsequent related items of work.
- 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: Portfolio
First Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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.
Assessment: Portfolio
Second Practice Area Choice: This portfolio of tasks enables you to acquire and apply legal and procedural knowledge, your legal and fact investigation and analysis skills and your writing and drafting skills to carry out client instructions in a complex matter in an area of practice that you have selected. The tasks that build up your portfolio will require you to examine critically client facts and the law. It will require you to transfer skills that you acquire in other practice areas to a new practice area, to apply professional judgement in a new practice area and to take responsibility for advancing your client's instructions in an unfamiliar area of practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions, except for the modules of consumer law or criminal law which involve simulated court hearing assessments.
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, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply the rules of practice and procedure in the areas of practice required for admission
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Analyse client problems to identify relevant legal, factual and contextual issues
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Apply legal research skills to identify the relevant legal principles and arguments
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use critical and creative thinking to identify and evaluate possible solutions to practical legal problems
Relates to: ULO1, Portfolio, Portfolio - Communicate complex legal concepts to clients and fellow practitioners in written and oral modes
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Use advocacy skills in formal settings
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio - Exercise independent judgement in making decisions within an ethical framework
Relates to: ULO3, Portfolio, Portfolio