LAWS8132 Advocacy

LAWS8132 is only available under certain award programs.

Offered By	Legal Workshop
Academic Career	Graduate Coursework
Course Subject	Laws
Offered in	Winter Session, 2010 and Winter Session, 2011
Unit Value	6 units
Course Description	Objectives: To be able to plan, prepare, and perform for a judge alone trial which raises Expert Evidence legal issues, raises common bases of evidence objections, and has fact and credibility disputes. Content: The course will cover: Development of case strategy - being able to analyse and prepare a case for all participant perspectives. Preparation skills for written and spoken forms of opening and closing submissions, and expert witness statements. Questioning skills for taking instructions, examination-in-chief and cross examination - agenda setting, settling the witness, witness control, story development and reiteration, argument embedded in question strings. How to search for relevant material in the social sciences when seeking to use social science expertise.
Learning Outcomes	Understanding the requirements placed on litigations lawyers and experts by Expert Witness guidelines; development of a case analysis and preparation method which is appropriate for each student; an understanding of basic court questioning and submission skills and the capacity to assess the competence of advocates.
Indicative Assessment	The assessment is expected to include three items: a practical assessment of in court advocacy skills (which is done on the final day of the intensive); a social science literature review; and, that part of a closing submission which deals with an expert's methods and opinions. Please note: each and every assessment item must be passed in order to pass the course. Students must rely on the Approved Assessment which will be posted to the course homepage on the ANU Law website, prior to the commencement of the course.
Workload	26 Contact Hours (Intensive Delivery) and WATTLE. Click here for the 2010 timetable
Areas of Interest	Law
Assumed Knowledge and Required Skills	Have completed a PLT course, or Articles, or discussed with the course convenor prior ‘court room' observation and/or experience (for example, as an associate).
Requisite Statement	LLB degree
Preliminary Reading	See list of ‘on line' readings posted on the WATTLE site two-three weeks before the course intensive begins.
Programs	Master of Laws (Legal Practice)
Other Information	Numbers for this course are capped at 20. Early enrolment is recommended. This course will commence on WATTLE on 16 August 2010, prior to the on site component. Logon to WATTLE at: http://wattle.anu.edu.au/ using your ISIS username and password. The onsite component of the course will run from 30 August - 2 September 2010 Click here for fee and census date information
Academic Contact	Mr Graeme Blank and Graduate Administration

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