Unit Synopsis
The unit Legal Advocacy is primarily concerned with the craft of lawyering and how to effectively present cases to a court. The unit covers topics such as the qualities of legal advocacy, legal ethics and courtroom etiquette, how to structure and prepare written submissions and oral arguments, examination of witnesses, and other fundamentals. This unit may interest students who wish to pursue careers in litigation, criminal prosecutions, or criminal defence work.
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 |
Pre-requisites: 30 credit point law units including LAWS13010. 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
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).
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
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Practical and Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Practical and Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 24.32% 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: Unit coordinator reflection and student feedback
The unit has a large number of assessment items, thus it is advisable to bring the number of assessment items into line with the assessment load in other LLB units.
The unit should have two assessments. This recommendation has been actioned.
This recommendation has been actioned.
Source: Unit coordinator reflection and student feedback
The unit should be offered on an intensive basis
This will be reviewed and discussed with the head of course for the LLB
The unit was offered on an intensive basis in term 2 2023.
Source: Student feedback, unit coordinator reflection
Student feedback was to keep the unit content exactly the same. The moot assessment should be maintained.
This will be reviewed
In Progress
Source: Student feedback
The guest lecture was very useful for students
The unit coordinator will review future opportunities for guest lectures and invite speakers where appropriate
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Present persuasive written submissions and oral arguments in a professional and ethical manner
- Research and critically analyse primary sources to formulate and support oral and written arguments for mock court hearings
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • |
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • |
| 5 - Team Work | • | • |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | |
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |