The quiz will be based on the material covered in  Lectures 1 – 4. Although the submission portal will remain open from 12pm – 9pm, the quiz is designed to be completed in 1 hour; the 9 hour time span is to accommodate the range of commitments and needs of students.  It will consist of 20 multiple choice questions some of which will be based on short hypothetical problem questions. When a student accesses the quiz they have 1 hour in which to complete it.  The questions and responses available to each student will vary as they will be allocated from a bank of questions, with the order of the responses presented to each student also varying.   Answers will be automatically submitted at the end of the hour. 

 NOTE VERY CLOSELY: It is a student’s responsibility to ensure that they can complete the quiz during the allotted time and date. No special consideration will be given for computer or browser problems.  

The hypothetical problem question will be based on the material in lectures 1 - 7 inclusive and will require a response to a hypothetical problem question involving property law.

Formatting Requirements

• Word limit: 2000 words including footnotes

• 1.5 spacing for normal text;

• single spacing for indented quotations (quotes longer than three lines) and footnotes.

• Footnotes, not endnotes

• AGLC referencing (Australian Guide for Legal Citation can be downloaded free at:http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/D8D6DF60-3F6A-11E2-B7AA0050568D0140

Submission of essays: All essays are to be submitted electronically through the ilearn webpage by file upload

NOTE VERY CLOSELY: It is Law School policy that late assignments will not be accepted. It is a student’s responsibility to allow sufficient time for file upload so that the essay is received by the due date and time and to ensure that the correct file is uploaded.

1. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR HYPOTHETICAL PROBLEM QUESTIONS

    FAIL (49% AND BELOW)

• fails to identify  and discuss relevant issues of law raised by facts;

• contains incorrect statements of law;

• does not provide relevant authorities for propositions of law;

• inappropriate and/or irrelevant content, including circumstances in which the student has uploaded the incorrect file to the ilearn submission point;

• plagiarism, use of other students’ work, ‘recycling’ own work from other units;

• difficult to read and/or understand through poor grammar, expression or structure

• fails to comply with formatting or submission instructions.

             

  PASS (50% - 64%)

• correctly identifies and discusses a limited number of issues of law raised by the facts

• contains no significant errors of law;

• provides correct authorities for propositions of law;

• attempts to apply relevant law to the given facts;

• adequate expression and compliance with formatting and submission instructions.

   

  CREDIT (65%-74%)

• correctly identifies and discusses most of the issues of law raised by the facts;

• contains no errors of law;

• provides correct authorities for propositions of law;

• successfully applies relevant law to the given facts;

• identifies differences between facts in the question and fact patterns in cases, and attempts to discuss relevance of this to the solution;

• identifies discrepancies/inconsistencies within the law, and attempts to resolve these where they are relevant to the given facts;

• attempts to explain which outcome is more likely where there is more than 1 possible solution to the problem;

• has clear structure and clear expression

   

  DISTINCTION (75%-84%)

• well structured, clearly communicating the expected outcome

• correctly identifies and discusses all of the issues of law raised by the facts;

• contains no errors of law;

• provides correct authorities for propositions of law;

• identifies differences between facts in the question and fact patterns in cases, and successfully discusses the relevance of this to the solution;

• identifies discrepancies/inconsistencies within the law,  and successfully resolves these where they are relevant to the given facts; 

• gives reasoned argument in favour of policy outcomes where the issue is raised by the question

   

  HIGH DISTINCTION (85% and above)

• satisfies all the criteria for a Distinction;

• is exceptionally well written and exceptionally well-structured.

• demonstrates superior and original analytical skills. 

The University examination period in the first half of 2015 is from Tuesday 9 June to to Friday 26 June 2015. Unit convenors have no control over when examinations are scheduled and so students must be available to sit the examination on any date specified by the university during this time. The timetable will be available in draft form approximately eight weeks before the commencement of the examinations and in final form approximately four weeks before the commencement of the examinations.  

 The only exception to sitting an examination at the designated time is because of serious and unavoidable disruption to study. In these circumstances you must apply for Special Consideration. Information about unavoidable disruption and the special consideration process is available under the Policies and Procedures section of this Unit Guide.