The early assessment task is an online multiple choice test to take place on the weekend following the conclusion of week 4 (Sat-Sun 26-27 August). This assessment task’s purpose is to engage students with their unit early in the session and to provide an opportunity for relatively early feedback. The questions will be drawn from the topics covered in lectures and readings of the first three weeks of the unit schedule. The multiple choice test will consist of 20 multiple choice questions to be completed in 25 minutes. Further instructions to students about completing the quiz online will be posted in due course.

Students who are unable to sit for the test at the designated time must not attempt it at all and must make a disruption to study application. If it is approved, they may sit for an equivalent paper test by appointment with the unit convenor in his office. Failure to complete the quiz will result in zero marks for this assessment.

The Assignment in this unit will be a hypothetical problem question and will be available on iLearn in week 2. The assignment must be a properly referenced formal response with appropriate analysis and argument supported by relevant authoritative cases and commentary. The assignment is to be submitted on the Turnitin link in iLearn. The maximum length is 1,700 words (excluding footnotes). The actual word length must be stated on the assignment. Word limits will be strictly applied and work above the word limit will not be marked. Footnotes are not to include substantive material. In completing their assignment, students must comply with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (3rd ed). The Guide is available at:  http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/go/AGLC3

Assignments submitted out of time will not be marked unless a Disruption to Study application is lodged and approved in accordance with the university's disruption to study policy which is available at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/disruption_studies/policy.html.

If a student submits the wrong assignment (eg an assignment for another unit) it will not be marked and a zero mark will be recorded. It is the student's responsibility to submit the correct assignment in ALL units. Turitin will accept only ONE assignment, so it is imperative that the final iteration of the assignment is submitted.

The mid-semester assessment task is an online multiple choice test to take place on the weekend following the conclusion of week 9 (Sat-Sun 14-15 Oct).  The questions will be drawn from the topics covered in lectures and readings of weeks 5 and 6 of the unit schedule. The multiple choice test will consist of 20 multiple choice questions to be completed in 25 minutes. Further instructions to students about completing the quiz online will be posted in due course.

Students who are unable to sit for the test at the designated time must not attempt it at all and must make a disruption to study application. If it is approved, they may sit for an equivalent paper test by appointment with the unit convenor in his office. Failure to complete the quiz will result in zero marks for this assessment.

The end of semester examination in this unit will be a formal sit-down open book examination. It will be based on material covered in the unit (more detailed information will be provided by the unit convenor).The examination will contain both hypothetical and essay questions. Two hours plus 10 mins reading time will be provided. The University’s examination period in Session 2 is from 13 Nov to 1 Dec 2017. Students must be available for examination at the time and place designated in the University examination timetable. 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. 

Any student who is unable to attend the final exam due to exceptional and unforeseen circumstances must contact the unit convenor at the earliest possible opportunity and also make an application, with appropriate evidence, in accordance with the university's Disruption to Study policy. If approved, the student may be permitted to attend any supplementary exam that is held for the unit at a time and place determined by the unit convenor. In such cases, students must be prepared to attend the supplementary exam outside the official university exam period.

FIT TO SIT MODEL Macquarie University operates under a ‘Fit to Sit’ model. This means that in sitting an exam and/or in-class test or otherwise submitting an assessment (including an online quiz), a student declares themselves fit to do so. Therefore, if a student is feeling unfit to sit the exam or test, or otherwise submit the assessment (as the case may be), they should not do so. If a student sits an exam or test, or otherwise submits an assessment, knowing that they are unfit to do so, they will not be granted Special Consideration.  

It is the responsibility of the student to determine whether they are fit to sit an examination or test or otherwise submit an assessment, or whether a Disruption to Studies claim should be submitted for non-participation.

A student’s sitting an examination or test or otherwise submitting an assessment will not preclude the student from being granted Special Consideration if the student can demonstrate that:

• they were unfit to make reasonable judgement on their fitness to undertake the assessment, due to mental illness or other exceptional circumstances;
• they were taken ill during the assessment (in the case of an examination or test); or
• other exceptional circumstances beyond their control vitiated the Fit to Sit declaration.

Internal students will participate in a compulsory one-hour tutorial every week that will provide the opportunity to explore, analyse and apply the principal doctrinal rules covered in lectures. Each student must enrol in a tutorial group and attend only that group for the duration of the semester (unless, because of exceptional or unforeseen circumstances, the unit convenor's approval is obtained ). For internal students, outside work commitments are not to be taken into account by the unit convenor if approval for change of tutorial group is sought. Students who are unable to attend a tutorial should submit a disruption to study application through ask.mq.edu and comply with the university's disruption to study policy. Students who have more than three unauthorised absences will receive a zero grade for class participation.

For internal students, tutorials commence in Week 1 of the semester. Tutorials will focus on addressing the set questions and exercises in the Tutorial Program, although other tutorial exercises may be distributed from time to time. Because of the minimal time available in tutorials, students will be expected to have attempted the questions at home in study time and to bring their notes to class where group discussion will take place. Students should be prepared to talk to any of the set questions when called upon to do so by their Tutor. Grading criteria for the class participation mark will be posted on the iLearn unit web page.

External students will be expected to fulfil the class participation requirements at the compulsory On-Campus Session (Fri-Sat 22-23 Sep). All external students must make the necessary personal and work arrangements to attend the On Campus Session. In the event of an exceptional and unforeseen inability to attend the On Campus Session, students must contact the unit convenor and also make an application with appropriate evidence under the university's disruption to study policy. If approved, the unit convenor will allocate written work to the student in lieu of attendance. An unauthorised absence from the On Campus Session will result in zero marks for the class participation assessment.