Module LAW3020 for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3020: Family Law
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
How this Module is Assessed
In the tables below, you will see reference to 'ILO's. An ILO is an Intended Learning Outcome - see Aims and Learning Outcomes for details of the ILOs for this module.
Formative Assessment
A formative assessment is designed to give you feedback on your understanding of the module content but it will not count towards your mark for the module.
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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1 x draft portfolio piece | 1,000 words | 1-8 | Written feedback |
2 x short pieces of writing | 500 words each (1,000 words in total) | 1-8 | General verbal feedback and written peer feedback |
1 x individual presentation | 3 minutes | 1-8 | Oral feedback |
Summative Assessment
A summative assessment counts towards your mark for the module. The table below tells you what percentage of your mark will come from which type of assessment.
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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80 | 0 | 20 |
...and this table provides further details on the summative assessments for this module.
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Written portfolio | 80 | 4 x 1,000 word pieces | 1-8 | Written feedback |
Individual presentation | 20 | 8 minutes | 1=8 | General written whole cohort feedback online |
Re-assessment
Re-assessment takes place when the summative assessment has not been completed by the original deadline, and the student has been allowed to refer or defer it to a later date (this only happens following certain criteria and is always subject to exam board approval). For obvious reasons, re-assessments cannot be the same as the original assessment and so these alternatives are set. In cases where the form of assessment is the same, the content will nevertheless be different.
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Written portfolio | Written portfolio (4 x 1,000 word pieces) | 1-8 | August/September re-assessment period |
Individual presentation | Recorded individual presentation (8 minutes) | 1-8 | August/September re-assessment period |
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Key Texts:
J. Herring, Family Law (Longman, London: 2013)
J. Miles, R. George, S. Harris-Short, Family Law: Text, Cases and Materials (OUP, Oxford, 2019)
M. Oldham, Blackstone’s Statutes on Family Law2020-21 (OUP, Oxford, 2020)
A Brown, What is the Family of Law? The Influence of the Nuclear Family (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2019)
A Barlow et al, Mapping Paths to Family Justice: Resolving Family Disputes in Neo-liberal times (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2017)