Module LAW3167 for 2021/2
- 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 2021/2 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, debt, 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 detailed knowledge of a substantial range of major relevant concepts and issues; 2. demonstrate critical awareness of the social and contextual implications of access to justice; |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 3. demonstrate detailed knowledge of legal concepts and their contextual, social and political implications; 4. demonstrate flexible capacity to define complex legal problems, identify their relative significance and select appropriate methods for investigating and critically evaluating them. |
| Personal and Key Skills | 5. interact effectively and proactively within a team/learning group, share information and ideas, and manage conflict; 6. manage relevant learning resources/information/learning strategies and develop your own arguments and opinions with minimal guidance; 7. plan and undertake tasks, individually and with others, with minimal guidance; and reflect critically on the learning process and make effective use of feedback. |
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
- Legal FAQs, forms and recourse
- Criminal justice, housing, disability, benefits, probate, debt 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 224 | 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 | 10 | 4 x 2.5 hour training seminars in week 1 of term 1 |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 22 | 22 x 1 hour drop-in surgeries with the module convenor |
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 44 | 22 x 2 hour public legal surgeries rota |
| Guided Independent Study | 124 | Individual reading, research, advice, writing, and study: 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).
