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 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).
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.
Basic reading:
Bloch F, The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Finch E & Fafinski S, Legal Skills (Oxford University Press, 2015)
Keats D, Interviewing: A Practical Guide For Students And Professionals (Open University Press, 2001)
Keyzer P, Kenworthy A & Wilson G (eds) Community Engagement in Contemporary Legal Education: Pro
Bono, Clinical Legal Education and Service Learning (Halstead Press, 2007)
Giddings J, Promoting Justice through Clinical Legal Education (Justice Press, 2013)
Griffiths Baker J, ‘Ethical Education through the Student Law Clinic’ 5(1) (2002) Legal Ethics 24
Pleasence P & Balmer NJ, ‘Mental Health and the Experience of Housing Rights Problems’ 2(1) (2007)
People, Place and Policy, pp 4-16.
Pleasence P & Balmer NJ, ‘Mental Health and the Experience of Social Problems Involving Rights: Findings from the United Kingdom and New Zealand’ 16(1) (2009) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, pp 123-140.
Pleasence P & Balmer NJ, ‘The Audacity of Justice: Recession, Redundancy, Rights and Legal Aid’ 9(4) (2010) Social Policy and Society pp 475-488
