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LAWS12063 Legal Drafting
Legal Drafting
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General Information

Overview

Lawyers engage in legal drafting on a daily basis and effective written communication skills are essential for legal practice. The unit focuses on the foundational principles for drafting legal documents to prepare you for the significant and diverse range of tasks you may face as a legal practitioner. This unit aims to enhance your legal drafting skills by providing you with an authentic practical learning experience. You will complete a variety of practical drafting tasks that newly qualified lawyers are likely to undertake in practice, such as drafting pleadings, affidavits, contracts and letters of advice.

Details

Career Level: Undergraduate
Unit Level: Level 2
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite of 24 credit points of law units including 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 2 - 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).

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Class and Assessment Overview

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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 Reflection by the unit coordinator.

Feedback

The unit includes a week focused on digital drafting, including the practical and ethical implications of using generative AI in legal drafting. As generative AI is advancing all the time, further content should be directed towards this topic.

Recommendation

Expand discussion of the ethical implications of lawyers using generative AI when drafting legal documents and encourage students to investigate the quality of legal documents generative AI produces.

Feedback from Student feedback and reflection by the unit coordinator

Feedback

Students benefited from extensive feedback on the two different drafting tasks in the mid-term written assessment, but there was only a short amount of time between completing the content relevant to the second task and the due date.

Recommendation

Review the timing of the mid-term written assessment.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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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 23 June 2025
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