成人大片

Course Supervisor:

Christian Haebich

This course will be taught intensively. Full details of seminars and activities are made available on MyUni course website
prior to the course commencing.

Note: In most cases assessment tasks are linked to seminars activities. Attendance at all seminars is highly advisable.

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

1	Identify purpose, audience and structure and construct concise and cohesive written documents for a/legal/professional/general/audience within the context of civil litigation.
2	Prepare, and analyse client instructions, and provide advice, having regard to the circumstances, good practice and the requirements of the law.
3	Structure and sustain concise and cohesive written legal arguments.
4	Demonstrate effective communication skills individually and as part of a group.
5	Collaborate and debate the issues in the course.

No textbooks are assigned for GDLP courses.

Seminar resources and readings are available on MyUni ONLY. Students must bring electronic devices to seminars to access seminar materials.

Due to an emphasis on current legal practice other materials may be added after the course outline has been posted. Students are required to check MyUni daily to keep up to date.

Most course resources are provided to students online via MyUni. Relevant legislation can be accessed online via:

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/

http://www.legislation.sa.gov.au/index.aspx

http://www.austlii.edu.au/

MyUni will be used to post announcements, post additional lecture materials (including slides, and where available, audio recordings of lectures) and announce assignment tasks. It will also contain electronic copies of the Course Outline, Lecture and Seminar Guides, and
Course Materials.

Students are expected to check MyUni daily to keep up to date with these materials and additional learning resources throughout the course.

The course is supported by the MyUni course website. The website contains the following resources:

1. Course information – including seminar schedule and assessment outline.
2. Course materials – such as lecture presentations, seminar materials, readings and resources.
3. Assessment – items of assessment and online submission.
4. Grade centre – where students’ results for assessments are entered.

MyUni will also be used to post announcements in both this course and GDLP Essentials. Students are expected to check MyUni daily to keep up to date.

Students should check daily their 成人大片 email.

The course will be taught intensively. Online lectures are supported by activities such as face to face interactive problem-solving seminars and practical exercises.

Students MUST come prepared for seminars, namely having listened to online lectures, undertaken prior reading and developed draft responses to the seminar questions. If students have not prepared and / or arrive more than 10 minutes late they may be asked to leave the seminar group.

A reminder that students MUST bring along electronic devices to the seminar so they can access the seminar materials electronically.

Attendance at seminars is advisable to ensure that students are part of the interactive and reflective learning environment (which enhances learning outcomes) and provides students with the ability to develop their skills of oral presentation, teamwork and persuasion (valuable to the professional environment). Students are expected to behave in an ethical and professional manner as would be expected in the workplace environment (compliant with the professional conduct rules and standards).

In addition to attending seminars it is anticipated that students will do substantial independent work to prepare for seminars and to complete the course assessments. Students are expected to spend about 15 hours per week in private study which includes reading the materials, listening to lecture presentations, conducting research and preparing for seminars. In addition students will need to dedicate time for the completion of assessments.

In this unit, you will be provided with a civil litigation scenario and asked to take steps running the matter, from initial engagement
with the client, through pleadings and disclosure, interlocutory applications, and offers to settle.

Initial material will be released prior to the seminars, to allow you to familiarise yourself with the basic facts, and undertake the first task given you by a senior practitioner:

Pre-Seminar Task

1. Write a draft R33 (and / or Supp R17) Letter to the
Defendant

Over the course of the seminars, further material will
become available that will allow you to complete the following tasks:

Module 1

2. Write an initial letter of advice to the client,
including advising about litigation costs

3. Draft pleadings based on the client’s instructions

4. Advise the client about disclosure obligations

Module 2

5. Analyse the matter and prepare a simple interlocutory
application

6. Respond to an offer to settle

7. Prepare a Deed of Settlement

Each of the above tasks are assessed work.

The course is based on the rules of the Legal Practitioners Education and Admission Council (LPEAC) 2018 which specifies the expected competency standards for entry level lawyers at the point of admission. 

In this course, the following elements of the National Competency Standards for Entry Level Lawyers are embedded:

• Ethics and professional responsibility
• Lawyers skills
• Problem solving
• Work management and business skills 

Students are required to demonstrate, where appropriate, the following:

• Punctuality
• Workload management and ability to adhere to deadlines
• Active engagement in practical activities
• Respectful behaviour towards others
• A high level of confidentiality at all times
• Satisfactory completion of prescribed exercises

For further information please contact the LSSA Program Manager (GDLP).

Assessments will be made available to students, prior to the nominated deadline.

Note: Competence must be demonstrated in all assessment tasks and activities.


* Assessment deadlines will be posted on MyUni prior to the course commencing.

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due	Weighting	Learning Outcome
Task 1 Pre-task	Individual	Day prior to course commencing	n/a	1-3
Task 2 Initial letter to client Statement of claim Letter to client-Disclosure	Individual	First week	n/a	1-5
Task 3 Application and Affidavit File-note-offer analysis Deed of Settlement	Individual	Second week	n/a	1-5
Task 4 Attendance	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Detailed information regarding assessment tasks will be provided on MyUni .

In this course, students will also be assessed on the following:

• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Workload management and ability to adhere to deadlines
• Display active engagement in practical activities
• Demonstrate respectful behaviour towards others
• Maintaining a high level of confidentiality at all times
• Satisfactory completion of prescribed exercises
• Underpinning national competency standards (as noted in ‘Specific course requirements’)

Unless otherwise stated, there will be no prescribed word limit for assessments. This is because the purpose of the GDLP programme is to facilitate your transition from undergraduate academic law studies to the legal professional employment environment through the demonstration and practice of professionally-based skills and competencies. In a legal practice it is highly unlikely you will be set a certain number of words or pages for the tasks you are asked to complete.

However, in the majority of assessments guidelines will be provided.

The quality of English expression is considered to be an integral part of the assessment process.
Assessment competence will take into consideration: expressions, structure, correct grammar, typography, etc.

Note: In most cases assessment tasks are linked to seminars activities. Attendance at all seminars is highly advisable.

Assessments will be returned to students within 3 weeks from the due date, unless otherwise notified by the Program Officer (GDLP) through a Course Announcement.

Assessments guidelines will be provided for each assesssment task. Unless otherwise stated, there will be no prescribed word limit for assessments. This is because the purpose of the GDLP program is to facilitate your transition from undergraduate academic law studies to the legal professional employment environment through the demonstration and practice of professionally-based skills and competencies. 

All assessments are competency based (non-graded pass). Competence must be demonstrated in all assessment tasks and activities.  MyUni requires a numerical value to display that competency has been demonstrated. Please note:

1 – Competency has been achieved (non-graded pass)
0 = Competency has not yet been achieved (re-submission required).

Assessment detail will be published on MyUni with a marking Rubric.
Assessment detail will be published on MyUni with a marking Rubric.

The seminars will take the form of small workshop tasks taken in pairs or small groups. Ideally, students will need to work with at
least one computer / device between 2 – 4 people.

Assessed work is expected to be that of each individual student and plagiarism and all other rules regarding academic dishonesty apply.


Pre-attendance - Write a draft R33 (and / or Supp R17) Letter to the Defendant

Students must retain a copy of all assignments submitted.

All assignments in this course are to be submitted electronically through Turnitin. Submissions to Turnitin are to be in Microsoft Word format (NOT in pdf)’.

Students work will be marked in accordance with the marking rubric. 

Resubmission 

Students are required to demonstrate competency in all elements of the national competency standards and failure to do so will result in the relevant assessment being marked as non-competent. If the assessment is deemed non-competent students may be offered the opportunity to revise and resubmit the assessment. In most cases only the parts of the assessment that do not attain competence will be required to be resubmitted. Only ONE opportunity is provided for resubmission. 

In 2019 a supplementary teaching day will be offered. Students who will be allowed to resubmit may attend this day, though it is not compulsory to do so. Resubmission of the assessment will be allowed after this additional teaching day. If a student is unable to demonstrate competency after this resubmission then they will need undertake the course again and pay additional fees. Please note that all final fails are double marked before the results are released to students.


Extensions 

Requests for extensions must be made electronically via GDLP Enquiries GDLPEnquiries@lawsocietysa.asn.au  Students MUST apply for an extension prior to the deadline. 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 
Assignments submitted late will not be marked.

NOTE: in this course, students are assessed against the national competency standards and professional workplace standards; namely

• Ethical and professional responsibility
• Lawyers skills
• Problem solving
• Work management and business skills
• Punctuality
• Workload management and ability to adhere to deadlines

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:


Grade Grade reflects following criteria for allocation of grade: Reported on Official Transcript
Fail no submission No work submitted for assessment FNS
Fail Competency not demonstrated F
Non-Graded Pass Competency demonstrated NGP
Result Pending An interim result RP
Continuing Continuing CN



Please note: GS8 Course Grading, Pass, Credit, Distinction, High Distinction DO NOT apply to this course.

Assessments guidelines will be provided for each assesssment task. Unless otherwise stated, there will be no prescribed word limit for assessments. This is because the purpose of the GDLP program is to facilitate your transition from undergraduate academic law studies to the legal professional employment environment through the demonstration and practice of professionally-based skills and competencies.

All assessments are competency based (non-graded pass). Competence must be demonstrated in all assessment tasks and activities. MyUni requires a numerical value to display that competency has been demonstrated. Please note:

1 – Competency has been achieved (non-graded pass)
0 = Competency has not yet been achieved (re-submission required).

Assessment detail will be published on MyUni with a marking Rubric.

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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The centre offers practical advice and strategies for students to master reading, writing, note-taking, time management, oral presentation skills, referencing techniques and exam preparation for success at university through seminars, workshops and individual consultations.

Lex Salus Program

Lex Salus (law and wellbeing) is an initiative of the Adelaide Law School aimed at destigmatising mental health issues; promoting physical, mental and emotional wellness; building a strong community of staff and students; and celebrating diversity within the school. It also seeks to promote wellness within the legal profession, through the involvement of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Honourable Chris Kourakis, as the official Patron of the program.

Students can participate in the Lex Salus program by attending barbecue lunches, pancake breakfasts, knitting and crochet circles, seminars, guest speakers, conferences and other activities. Our , and regular all-student emails promote upcoming events, and have tips and information on wellness.

Our Lex Salus YouTube channel also includes videos on topics like managing stress, and interviews with LGBTQ lawyers and their supporters which celebrate diversity and individuality. Students who commit to 10 hours of volunteering with Lex Salus in one year can have their service recognised on their academic transcript and through a thank you morning tea with the Chief Justice and law school staff.

Student Life Counselling Support

The University’s service provides free and confidential service to all enrolled students. We encourage you to contact the Student Life Counselling Support service on 8313 5663 to make an appointment to deal with any issues that may be affecting your study and life.

Academic Honesty

Academic dishonesty is a serious act of academic misconduct. All students must be familiar with the University’s Academic Honesty Policy.

Academic dishonesty is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the University. Academic dishonesty (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 honesty 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.