Internal Students are to participate in weekly tutorials. Distance Students are to participate in Sessions 1 and 2 of the on campus sessions on 12-13 April 2014 and Session 3 on 23 May 2014.

The tutorials and on campus sessions will provide the opportunity to explore, analyse, critically evaluate and apply the doctrinal rules on topics covered in lectures. They will focus on set questions available to student on iLearn, although other questions and exercises may be distributed from time to time. Students must attempt the questions at home prior to tutorial classes or on campus sessions, as the case may be, and are expected to discuss their answers and comments, as the case may be, on the questions if an when called upon by the tutor to do so.

Subject to the provisions of the next paragraph:

(i)     any internal student who does not attend at least eleven of the scheduled tutorials will receive: (i) a zero mark for the this assessment item; and (ii) a mark for the unit of no more than 49/100, irrespective of marks gained in any other assessment item; or 

(ii)    any distance student who does not attend at Sessions 1 and 2 of the on campus sessions on 12-13 April 2014 will receive: (i) a zero mark for the this assessment item; and (ii) a mark for the unit of no more than 49/100, irrespective of marks gained in any other assessment item.

If an internal student is unable to attend any given tutorial class or if a distance student does not attend Sessions 1 and 2 of the on campus sessions, as the case may be, and he or she:

(i) submits, within time, an application for Special Consideration which discloses and, with appropriate documentary evidence, supports a justifiable reason for not attending the said tutorial or on campus session; and

(ii) satisfactorily completes any written work in relation to the topics covered in the said tutorial or on campus session that the unit convenor may require the student to do,

the student will  be deemed to have attended the said tutorial or on campus session.

Assignment No 1 in this unit will be require students to answer a problem question or problem questions.

The problem question or questions for Assignment No 1 will be available on iLearn by the end of the first week of semester.

Assignment No 1 must be a properly referenced formal response with appropriate analysis and argument supported by relevant legal authorities. Assignment No 2 must be typed and must be kept to a maximum 2,000 words (excluding footnotes and the bibliography).

In completing Assignment No 1, students must comply with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, compiled by the Melbourne University Law Review. The Guide is available for download free at:

http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/aglc.htm.

Further instructions in relation to Assignment No 1, including on how to submit it, will be posted on iLearn.

If, for justifiable reasons, a student is unable to submit the Assignment No 1 on time, he or she may submit an application for Special Consideration. If Special Consideration is granted the student will be given a different problem question or questions to be completed at a time determined by the unit convenor.

Any student who does not submit Assignment No 2 on time or at all, will receive: (i) a zero mark for the this assessment item; and (ii) a mark for the unit of no more than 49/100, irrespective of marks gained in any other assessment item.

Assignment No 2 in this unit is a research paper.

The question for Assignment No 2 will be available on iLearn by the end of the first week of semester.

Assignment No 2 must be a properly referenced formal response with appropriate analysis and argument supported by relevant authoritative cases and commentary. Assignment No 2 must be typed and must be kept to a maximum 2,000 words (excluding footnotes and the bibliography).

In completing Assignment No 2, students must comply with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation, compiled by the Melbourne University Law Review. The Guide is available for download free at:

http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/mulr/aglc.htm.

Further instructions in relation to Assignment No 2, including on how to submit it, will be posted on iLearn.

If, for justifiable reasons, a student is unable to submit the Assignment No 2 on time, he or she may submit an application for Special Consideration. If Special Consideration is granted the student will be given a different research question to be completed at a time determined by the unit convenor.

Any student who does not submit Assignment No 2 on time or at all, will receive: (i) a zero mark for the this assessment item; and (ii) a mark for the unit of no more than 49/100, irrespective of marks gained in any other assessment item.

The final examination in this unit will be a take home examination.

The final examination will be based on material covered in the unit, ie all topics and materials covered in the unit.

The final examination will be in the form of a number of problem style questions. All questions will have to be answered.

Students will be able to access the final examination paper on iLearn from 9 am on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 and must submit their answers to the final examination paper by 5 pm on Wednesday 18 June 2014.

A student's answers to the final examination paper's questions cannot exceed 2,500 words (exclusive of footnotes). This is an upper word limit and a student need not write 2,500 words if he or she can answer the questions in less than 2,500 words. A bibliography is not required.

The answers to the final examination paper's questions must be a properly referenced with appropriate analysis and argument supported by relevant authority. The answers must be typed.