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LAWS11060 Criminal Law
Criminal Law
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General Information

Overview

LAWS11060 Criminal law provides knowledge of the procedures of and general doctrines of criminal law with emphasis on offences against the person (including murder, manslaughter and assault) and against property (including stealing) as expressed in the Queensland Criminal Code. Selective treatment is given to various defences and to the elements of criminal procedure. This unit meets the LPAB requirements for criminal law and procedure.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 1
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Corequisite: LAWS11057

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 1 - 2025

Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Website

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Class and Assessment Overview

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This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
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Previous Student Feedback

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Feedback from Student feedback

Feedback

Positive feedback from students that the bail application was authentic.

Recommendation

It is recommended that Criminal Law continue to adopt authentic assessment tasks. Criminal Law is well suited for authentic assessment tasks given the practice of criminal law involves oral advocacy such as a bail application or a sentencing hearing and written advocacy such as an appeal.

Feedback from Student feedback, moodle and email

Feedback

Positive feedback from students that the feedback on the bail application gave them practical tips and suggestions for criminal law practice.

Recommendation

Authentic assessment tasks such as a bail application should give students feedback in two forms, the first is pre due date feedback in the form of practical discussions with students in the Zoom sessions and post submission feedback in the form of specific suggestions on how to improve legal advocacy in the criminal law context.

Feedback from Student feedback

Feedback

In some Zoom sessions students had an opportunity to debate recent criminal law topics which students said gave them an opportunity to interact.

Recommendation

The UC will continue to develop moot topics in live Zoom sessions to encourage students to practice their legal argument (in a non assessed context) which is a key legal advocacy skill for legal practice.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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This information will be available on Monday 13 January 2025
Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Graduate Attributes

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Textbooks and Resources

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This information will be available on Monday 17 February 2025
Academic Integrity Statement

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