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LAWS3366 Forensic Advocacy
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The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
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| Credit: 6 points Availability: non-standard teaching period Old unit code: 200.366
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| Outcomes: Students acquire advocacy skills in trials and other contexts. |
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Content: Admission to this unit, taught as a one-week intensive course, is restricted by quota.
This unit is an introduction to the theoretical and practical questions involved in the administration of partisan justice, the theories and techniques employed in the preparation and presentation of cases in court and the skills required in advocacy in a court or tribunal. Each step of the trial process is studied—the preparation of the trial (as distinct from procedural steps), the opening address, examination, cross-examination and re-examination of witnesses, the tendering of documentary evidence, taking objections, closing address, and submissions on law. The unit is skills-based and is conducted largely by workshops in small groups. |
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Assessment: This unit is assessed on a pass/fail basis.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit because the Faculty has been granted an exemption. |
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| Unit Co-ordinator(s): Professor The Hon. George Hampel AM QC |
| Location: UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode: on-campus |
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| Prerequisites: LAWS3310 Evidence |
| Approved quota: 50—intended for students in the final year of the Bachelor of Laws |
Contact hours—taught intensively in workshop and moot trial form
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Unit Web Page: http://www.uwa.edu.au/page/109000 |
| Note: Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2009. |
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| Note: Attendance at all sessions is mandatory. |
Required Reading
Hampel, G. et al. Advocacy Manual: the complete guide to persuasive advocacy: Australian Advocacy Institute 2008 (copies available in the Law Library)
Recommended Reading
Glissan, J. L. Cross-examination Practice and Procedure—an Australian Perspective, 2nd ed.: Butterworths 1991
Hampel, G. and Brimer, E. Hampel on Ethics and Etiquette for Advocates: Leo Cussen Institute 2001
Mauet, T. A. and McCrimmon, L. A. Fundamentals of Trial Techniques, 2nd ed.: Lawbook Co. 2001
Perry, M. Hampel on Advocacy: A Practical Guide to Basics: Leo Cussen Institute 2005
In addition, students are provided with exercise papers and workshop problems which they are expected to have mastered prior to the commencement of the workshops.
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Assistance with study skills, including English language skills,
is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students
(see http://www.studysmarter.uwa.edu.au/).
Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423. |
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Books and other material wherever listed may be subject to change.
Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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