Module LAW3167 for 2018/9
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3167: Access to Justice Clinic
This module descriptor refers to the 2018/9 academic year.
Module Aims
In this module, you will develop valuable skills such as interviewing and counselling, public speaking, and client record keeping, and gain a broader understanding of what access to justice really means. Through studying the legal system in the areas of criminal justice, housing, benefits and employment law, you will learn to identify the barriers to justice. In identifying these barriers, you will discuss and develop pathways for individuals to access justice. You will also learn how to explain complex legal information to laypersons as part of creating this access to justice.
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
|---|---|
| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the means through which access to justice can be facilitated, and a substantial range of major relevant concepts and issues 2. Critically evaluate the extent to which access to justice is facilitated in the UK 3. Demonstrate critical awareness of the social and contextual implications of access to justice 4. Identify, explain and evaluate key issues relating to access to justice |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of a range of legal concepts, values, principles, institutions and procedures, and the ability to explain the relationships among them, as well as their limits 6. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of legal concepts and their contextual/social/political implications 7. Demonstrate flexible capacity to define complex legal problems, identify their relative significance and select appropriate methods for investigating and critically evaluating them 8. Select, integrate and present coherently and reflectively, orally and in writing, relevant law and legal/theoretical arguments |
| Personal and Key Skills | 9. Interact effectively and proactively within a team/learning group, to share information and ideas, and to manage conflict 10. Manage relevant learning resources/ information/ learning strategies and to develop own arguments and opinions with minimum guidance 11. Communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, orally and in writing, in a manner appropriate to the discipline/ different contexts 12. Plan and undertake tasks, individually and with others, with minimum guidance, to reflect critically on the learning process and make use of feedback 13. Identify, retrieve and use efficiently a range of library-based and electronic resources with minimum guidance |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
It is envisaged that the syllabus will include the following topics, although precise content and order may vary.
- Legal FAQs, forms and recourse
- Criminal justice, housing, disability, benefits and employment law
- Poverty, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, gender, age and the law
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 58 | 242 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 22 x 1 hour Lectures |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 18 | 9 x 2 hour seminars |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 18 | 9 x 2 hour public legal surgeries |
| Guided Independent Study | 142 | Individual reading, research and study: lecture, seminar and surgery preparation and consolidation |
| Guided Independent Study | 80 | Summative assessment preparation |
| Guided Independent Study | 20 | Formative assessment preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
