Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW3167: Access to Justice Clinic

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Module Aims

In this module, you will develop valuable skills, such as communication, research, client interviewing, drafting legal advice and client record keeping. Through this, you will gain a broader understanding of what access to justice really means. By experiencing the legal system through the eyes of your clients, you will recognise 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 in an accessible way.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
This module's assessment will evaluate your achievement of the ILOs listed here – you will see reference to these ILO numbers in the details of the assessment for this module.
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:

Access to justice
Key issues in a range of areas of law, e.g. housing, employment, general civil litigation and welfare law
Equality issues and the law
Civil procedure

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
66	234	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	2 x 5 hour training sessions
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity	40	20 x 2 hour workshops
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity	16	8 x 2 hour clinic sessions
Guided Independent Study	134	Individual reading, research, and preparation for scheduled activities
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).

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
Reflective portfolio activities	1,000 words	1-7	Individual written feedback (with oral feedback upon request)
Case study essay plan	500 words	1-4, 6-7	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
100	0	0

...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

Case study essay	50	2,000 words	1-4, 6-7	Individual written feedback (with oral feedback upon request)

Reflective portfolio	50	2,000 words	1-7	Individual written feedback (with oral feedback upon request)

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
Case study essay	Case study essay (2,000 words)	1-4, 6-7	August/September reassessment period

Reflective portfolio	Reflective portfolio (2,000 words)	1-7	August/September reassessment period