Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is one half-day Legal Service client intake session per week for 16 weeks (including non-teaching period) plus one and a half days per week client follow-up, which equals two days per week, and including one onsite seminar day and 4/5 online seminars over the clinical period. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, client interviewing and advice sessions, supervision and online engagement.
Demonstrate practical legal skills of interviewing, advocacy and drafting; and appropriate use of non-adversarial methods and principles for the resolution of client disputes (mediation, negotiation, collaboration, arbitration).
Assess their own capabilities and performance as future legal practitioners by having developed skills of self-reflection and self-management, with the ability to independently synthesise this information to aid in the exercise of sound professional and ethical decisions.
Effectively communicate (both orally and in writing) legal advice, information, options for litigious and non-litigious pathways, arguments and strategies with a wide range of audiences involved in the justice system.
Independently identify a law reform or policy problem of relevance to the clinic, isolate and critically analyse the relevant legal principles that underpin that problem, and articulate recommendations for reform through an advanced theoretical and technical knowledge of the designated problem.
Independently undertake complex legal research and, using such research: (a)Assess and articulate adversarial and non-adversarial options for clients, including the strengths and weaknesses of available legal options; (b)Pro-actively develop solutions to complex legal problems; and (c)Demonstrate a capacity for recognising and appropriately responding to the strategic and ethical implications of different legal approaches.
This assessment task has three components: • Legal research and application of legal research - 20% • Casework, ethics, and professional responsibility - 30% • Project management and file management skills - 20%
