LAWS12061 - Administrative Law

General Information

Unit Synopsis

LAWS12061 Administrative Law examines the legal rules, principles and procedures applied by the courts and administrative tribunals to review and check the exercise of executive power and the legality of administrative (executive) action and decision-making, especially insofar as they affect the rights, interests and legitimate expectations of individuals and the public. It also looks at the constitutional, statutory, common law and equitable remedies available against invalid executive action and decision-making. Topics you will study in this unit include: the organisation and structure of the administration; administrative law theory; common law and statutory avenues of judicial review at Commonwealth and State level; grounds of judicial review; remedies; crown immunity; the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; statutory review; and Freedom of Information. This unit meets the LPAB requirements for administrative law.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites Prerequisites: 24 credit points of law

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 80.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 34.48% response rate.

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.

Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Students enjoyed the effort to make learning materials relevant and contemporary - "found the material very relevant and helpful for our own lives in the community, and also working in government roles"
Recommendation
Continue efforts to make learning materials relevant and tangible
Action Taken
Efforts were made to do this and tutorials were used as a tool to keep students across an area of law which is in flux.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback
Student comments reflected an appreciation for the way tutorials were conducted - "I couldn't speak highly enough of Jacob and how grateful I am for his approach to teaching" "Jacob is easy to understand and makes the content interesting in discussion" "Although I was not able to attend the live tutorials throughout the semester due to work commitments I really enjoyed the line of questioning that was asked throughout as it was a great opportunity to test my knowledge after I had completed the weeks work"
Recommendation
Continue emphasis on discussion and skill building in tutorials
Action Taken
MIRO was used as a tool in tutorials to help make them more interactive.
Source: Moodle analytic data
Feedback
Moodle analytic data indicated a low uptake of some resources including video and written guides. It is possible that the tile format makes these resources difficult to locate for some students
Recommendation
Review access of documents and consider posting resources to multiple locations across Moodle and Teams.
Action Taken
A further review is being undertaken. Notably, textbooks in this subject are changing due to a change in law.
Source: Tutor Reflection
Feedback
Dealing with the change in law
Recommendation
From T2 in 2025, enough material on the Administrative Review Tribunal (the newly formed administrative tribunal) will be available. As such lecture material for week 4 will be changed to deal predominantly with the ART.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Group work
Recommendation
This course will start to release assessments in week 1 as opposed to week 3 so as to help facilitate the formation of groups and make group work as productive as possible.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Tutor Reflection
Feedback
Incorporation of more theoretical content
Recommendation
Tutorials and lectures will from 2025 begin to include some theoretical content to help ground student understanding of key concepts.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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