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On successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Comprehend and apply key legal principles governing the doctor-patient relationship;
2. Critically evaluate ethical and legal dilemmas faced by medical practitioners;
3. Conduct client interviews to practice and develop legal communication skills and professionalism;
4. Formulate written legal advice to clients facing (simulated) legal dilemmas in their medical practice; and
5. Articulate and develop persuasive legal arguments on complex and contentious medico-legal issues.

Sonia Allan & Meredith Blake, Australian Health Law (LexisNexis, 2018)*

*Note: This text is available for free through the university library's website. Six simultaneous users can access it at one time, but students may purchase their own copy if they wish.

Ben White, Fiona McDonald and Lindy Willmott (eds), Health Law in Australia (Thomson Reuters, 4th ed, 2023)

MyUni will be used to post announcements and course materials, as well as quizzes and to announce assignment tasks.

This course is taught intensively in a condensed series of lectures and seminars.

Wednesday 25 September 2024 is a compulsory attendance day. Failure to attend will result in failure of the course. This is an interactive, interdisciplinary day at the Medical School. Medical students will be your clients and they will seek your legal advice regarding an incident arising during their (simulated) treatment of a patient. You will conduct a client interview and perform some initial research to give them oral advice on the most immediate issues they are facing, and follow up later with more fulsome, written advice to address the full range of their concerns. You must be available for the entire day.

The course consists of 36 hours of contact time, comprised of lectures, seminars, and the inter-disciplinary day at the Medical School.

In addition to attending formal classes, it is anticipated that students will do substantial independent work to prepare for classes and to complete course requirements. The University expects students to devote approximately 144 hours per 3-unit course. Students should expect to spend this amount of time in class preparation, attendance, and completion of assessment tasks in this course.

The teaching days will involve a mix of lectures and interactive seminar style sessions. The lectures will cover substantive law topics, which may include medical negligence, battery, patient privacy and confidentiality, and end of life care. Seminars will consist of discussions and interactive activities to engage with and apply content from course readings and lectures. Seminar time will also be used to prepare students for their client interviews that will be conducted at the Medical School. 

A comprehensive course topic list and schedule will be available at the commencement of the course.

Wednesday 25 September 2024 is a compulsory attendance day. All students will be involved in a practical activity with medical students. This day is crucial to the achievement of course learning outcomes and forms the basis for the letter of advice (comprising 40% of students' final grades). As a resut, attendance is mandatory and a failure to attend will result in a failure of the course.

Assessment Task	Weighting	Due	Task Type	Length	Redeemable	Learning Outcome
Quiz 1	5%	19th September 2024	Individual	10 questions	N	1,2
Quiz 2	5%	24th September 2024	Individual	10 questions	N	1, 2
Letter of Advice	40%	2nd October 2024 @ 2pm	Individual	2,000 words	N	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Final Paper	50%	9th October 2023 @ 2pm	Individual	2,500 words	N	1, 2, 5

Wednesday 25th September is a compulsory attendance day. Failure to attend will result in a failure of the course.

Quizzes: 
There will be two multiple-choice quizzes assessing students' comprehension of readings, lectures and seminar materials. These quizzes can be accessed on the course MyUni page. 

Letter of Advice:
Students will be providing a formal letter of advice in response to the ethical/legal concerns raised by their clients in the inter-disciplinary simulation day. 

Final Paper:
Students will be required to answer a combination of problem-based and theoretical questions covering a range of topics in the course. 

Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted.

All assignments in this course are to be submitted electronically through Turnitin. Details for electronic submission through Turnitin will be provided with the assignment instructions. All assessments will be submitted and monitored through text or code comparative software (e.g. Turnitin) where possible.

Extensions: Requests for extensions must be made electronically according to law school policy. Extensions will be granted only for unexpected illness, hardship or on compassionate grounds in accordance with University Policy. Work commitments, travel, holidays or sporting engagements are not unexpected circumstances.

Late Submission Penalties
When an assessment is submitted after the due date, without an extension, 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend and public holidays. For example, an assignment that is submitted after the due date and time but within the first 24 hour period, and that has been graded at 63%, will have 5% deducted, for a final grade of 58%. An essay that is more than 24 hours late will lose 10%, etc.

Word Length Penalties
5% of the total mark possible for a written assessment will be deducted for every 100 words (or part thereof) by which it exceeds a stipulated word limit. For example, a 3,000 word essay graded at 63% will have 5% deducted if it is between 3,001 and 3,100 words long for a final mark of 58%. If the essay is between 3,101 and 3,200 words long, 10% will be deducted for a final mark of 53%, etc. Individual assignment instructions will specify whether word limits include references. If the word limit is misstated, this may be regarded as academic dishonesty.

Finality of Assessment Grades

Students are advised that Course Coordinators will not enter into negotiations of any kind with any student regarding changes to their grades. It is irrelevant, in any given circumstance, that only a minimal number of additional marks are required to inflate a student’s grade for any individual assessment item or course as a whole. Pursuant to the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policyand the Adelaide Law School Assessment Policies and Procedures, grades may only be varied through the appropriate channels for academic review (such as an official re-mark).

Moderation

In accordance with the University’s Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, course coordinators ‘ensure that appropriate marking guidelines and cross-marking moderation processes across markers are in place’ in each course. Procedures adopted by Adelaide Law School to ensure consistency of marking in courses with multiple markers include:

• assurance of the qualifications of markers, and their knowledge of the content covered in each course;
• detailed marking guidelines and assessment rubrics to assist in the marking of items of assessment;
• sharing of example marked assessments at various grade bands across markers;
• reviewing of selected marked assessments from each marker by the course coordinator;
• comparison of the marks and their distribution across markers;
• automatic double-marking of all interim assessment receiving a fail grade, and of final assessments where a student’s overall result is a fail grade;
• the availability of re-marking of assessments in accordance with Adelaide Law School’s Assessment Policies and Procedures.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners

Students are reminded that all assessment results are subject to approval (and possible moderation/change) by the Law School’s Board of Examiners. Assessment results at the University are not scaled. Under the Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy, students are assessed ‘by reference to their performance against pre-determined criteria and standards … and not by ranking against the performance of the student cohort in the course’. However, under that same policy, the Board of Examiners (as the relevant Assessment Review Committee for courses at Adelaide Law School) is required to ‘ensure comparability of standards and consistency’ in assessment. On occasions, the Board of Examiners will form the view that some moderation is required to ensure the comparability of standards and consistency across courses and years, and accordingly provide fairness to all law students. All assessment results are therefore subject to approval (and possible change) until confirmed by the Board of Examiners and posted on Access Adelaide at the end of each semester.

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Academic Integrity

All students must be familiar with the University’s Academic Integrity Policy. Academic Misconduct is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Academic Misconduct (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South Australia to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South Australia. Academic Integrity is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.