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Not offered in 2020
Unit description
Provides paralegal students with a basic understanding of evidence and advocacy in the context of civil procedure in local courts and small tribunals. Students deal with (a) how a civil case is structured (pre-trial procedure), (b) how it is proved in a local court or small tribunal (evidence), (c) how it is presented in such a forum (advocacy), and (d) how a judgement is enforced (post-judgement procedure). The civil case focused on involves a claim to recover a debt in a local court or small-claims tribunal.
Unit content
Causes and forums
Topic 1: Debt and associated causes of action
Topic 2: Trial courts, tribunals and jurisdiction
Civil procedure (Pre-trial)
Topic 3: Procedure leading to a default judgment
Topic 4: Procedure leading to a trial judgment
Evidence
Topic 5: Concept of relevance
Topic 6: Testimony and legal professional privilege
Topic 7: Documentary evidence
Topic 8: Hearsay and business records
Advocacy
Topic 9: Preparing for trial
Topic 10: Running a trial
Civil procedure (Post-judgment)
Topic 11: Examination of a judgment debtor
Topic 12: Other enforcement mechanisms
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate knowledge of causes and forums | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | demonstrate knowledge of and implement pre-trial procedure | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 3 | identify and apply the rules of evidence | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | demonstrate knowledge of advocacy | Intellectual rigour | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||
| 5 | demonstrate knowledge of and implement post-trial procedure | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 6 | ability to access legislation and judgments | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 7 | ability to extract rules from primary sources. | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of causes and forums
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate knowledge of and implement pre-trial procedure
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- identify and apply the rules of evidence
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate knowledge of advocacy
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate knowledge of and implement post-trial procedure
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- ability to access legislation and judgments
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- ability to extract rules from primary sources.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
Teaching and assessment
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