For the Civil Procedure segment of the course, students must volunteer to be on call for one of the civil procedure tutorials to answer questions in that tutorial as well as attending 70% of classes. One tutorial will be designated a moot tutorial and students interested in advocacy should select that tutorial as their "on call" tutorial.  Brief mock moots will constitute the participation component of the assessment for the moot tutorial.

This assessment task will comprise a four-hour open book examination, delivered online. All CIVIL PROCEDURE topics studied throughout the course will be examinable. 

The exam will contain problem question(s) and mini-essays.

This exam is designed as a standard three hour open book exam. Students should prepare for and organise their time during this exam as if sitting an open-book exam on-campus. Four hours have been allocated to allow for any delay in submitting exam papers by the 1PM deadline. Late submissions will not be marked and will receive a grade of 0.

The submitted examination must comply with any word limits specified in the paper.  Content over the word limit will not be marked.

For the Criminal Procedure Component of the Course, students must attend at least 70% of classes in order to pass this assessment task. Engaged and well-informed participation is encouraged. Students who regularly show that they have not only done the readings, but can demonstrate their understanding of course materials, general themes and critical analysis during class, will fully meet the assessment criteria required for this task. 

Students will be required to attend eight (8) hours of court observation at a criminal court in New South Wales. Students may choose to perform their observation at either Local, District or Supreme Courts or any of these courts in combination.

Students will be required to observe criminal process in action by attending court, taking notes and observing courtroom procedure. While attending court, students are encouraged to observe not only technical legal process but to critically observe the social, spacial, political and anthropological relationships that take place within the courtroom and the courthouse more broadly. Look carefully at who performs which roles, the manner in which they are executed, the time devoted to courtroom tasks, courthouse architecture as well as the social backgrounds and status of the various actors within the criminal process. 

Students must critically assess their findings in a mini-essay, drawing on literature provided in the textbook (Brown & Farrier) as well as through their own independent research. Assignments may focus upon a broad cross-section of procedural issues and observations. Frequently, however, the best answers to this assignment critically investigate only one or two discrete observational issues. 

Students will be required to complete a Court Attendance Log documenting their attendance (a Court Attendance Log Sheet can be found on the ilearn webpage). 

Essays must be between 1500 words and 2000 words, excluding footnotes.  Content over 2000 words will not be marked.

Footnotes must not include substantive argument (ie only references are permitted).  A bibliography should not be provided.

The essay must comply with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (3rd ed).  The Guide is available here <http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/AGLC3>.  Essays must be submitted in double line spaced text, 12 point font. 

The essay is due in Week 11 on Tuesday 24 May 2016, 5pm.

All work is to be submitted via Turnitin on iLearn. Late submissions will not be marked and will receive a grade of 0.

Students are required to form groups of three. Each student will perform the role of either a magistrate, prosecutor or defence counsel within their group. Each group will be presented with a simple mock sentencing scenario from the NSW Local Court. Students will be expected to perform their respective roles in their group in the Macquarie University Moot Court. Students will be required to analyse procedural law and facts relevant to their scenario.

Each student will have a strict time limit of 5 minutes to either make submissions on sentence (as either prosecution or defence counsel) or deliver a sentence with brief reasons for your decision (as magistrate).

Tip: Performance of this task will be greatly enhanced by observing pleas-in-mitigation in the Local Court during the court observation exercise. Pleas-in-mitigation usually occur at the Local Court on most days of the week between 9:30 AM and 1 PM.

More information about this exercise will be provided throughout the course. 

Note: Students unable to attend the group presentation must notify their lecturer and will be assessed by short answer quiz on sentencing procedure, assessed under strict conditions.