Active participation:

'Active participation' means much more than simply turning up for the tutorials and on campus sessions. Students will also be assessed on:

• Their level of engagement in the discussions and activities during classes;
• Their understanding of the legal, ethical and moral issues, applicable rules and law evidencing their engagement with the set readings & online lecture materials.
• Online participation in the forums throughout the period of the semester. 

This unit works best when all students attend and give the entire group the benefit of their views based upon the readings and their experience.

Topics 1-13 on iLearn cover the material taught over 13 weeks. Specific readings and exercises are set for each week's tutorial. Students should work through each topic making sure to read the set readings, watch the lectures and make any notes or questions you would like to discuss in the weekly tutorial for internal students and the on campus session for external students. 

Students will notice that under each TOPIC heading there is an 'Tutorial and On Campus Prep' section which involves an activity to complete. These will be discussed in class BUT SHOULD BE REVIEWED BEFORE the relevant tutorial and BEFORE the on campus session. Some of this work from Weeks 1-3 will be collected by your tutor and will count towards your participation mark.

Students are required to participate in the role plays, online and face to face discussions, debates, reflective exercises and other activities. The tutor will engage in ongoing assessment of student participation.

All students are expected to join in the online forum discussions. You may respond to the questions or observations made by others, or post your own question or discussion point about the law or some legal issue currently in the news. The point is to get involved in the discussion! Hopefully we'll have some fun with it as we learn from each other.

A detailed marking rubric for class participation will be provided on iLearn.

On Campus Session:

A program for the on campus session will be posted on iLearn. All external students are required to attend the sessions on 18-20 April 2018.

At the on-campus session:

• Students should be prepared to hand in any of the tutorial preparation materials from Weeks 1-3, and
• Students should have read the article: Anthony Kronman, 'Legal Professionalism' (1999) 27 Florida State University Law Review 1 and have prepared answers (in no more than THREE PAGES) to the following questions:
  • What are the ideals of the legal profession that Kronman describes?
  • What are the threats to these ideals?
  • Why does Kronman think these ideals have importance? Explain why you agree or disagree.
  • Do such ideals have a place in modern lawyering?

Absences:

If you cannot attend a tutorial you must send a message on iLearn to your tutor to inform them of your absence.  For extended absences from tutorials, or for external students, if you cannot attend an on campus session you must apply for Special Consideration and support your application with the appropriate documentation. Applications for Special Consideration are made online at ask.mq.edu.au.

In this paper students will be asked to provide a response to a question of legal ethics. Students will be required to be familiar with a variety of models of applied legal ethics in order to justify their ethical decision making choices.

Student responses are expected to be well researched and to critically reflect upon and analyse both the law and theory of professional responsibility for lawyers.

Students will also be assessed on their written communication skills, particularly their ability to write in plain English.

The maximum word count for this assessment is 2000 words.

Assessments will be submitted online via Turnitin and must comply with the Macquarie University Policy on Academic Honesty

The complete question will be released on iLearn.

A detailed making rubric for the assessment will be available on iLearn.

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline.

This is a time limited multiple choice exam of one hour to test students' understanding of the law of professional responsibility.  All material from week 1 to week 12 is examinable.

Students can open the exam at any time after 3pm on Friday 8 June 2018. The exam will automatically shut down at 9pm. Students will have one hour to complete their answers from the time that they open the paper.  When one hour has expired, or the time is 9pm, all saved answers will be automatically submitted.

30 questions will be randomly assigned to each student and the order of the questions and answers will also be shuffled.

Some of the questions will begin with the words "In relation to the problem question:"  Those questions will relate to a problem scenario that will be posted in the assessment block for reading 24 hours prior to the quiz in the Assessment block (3pm on Thursday 7 June) 

This Assessment Task relates to the following Learning Outcomes:

• Describe and explain the role of the lawyer in Australian society
• Explain and apply the law of professional responsibility that regulates the practice of law in Australia, including duties owed to the court, to the client, to practitioners, and to the community.
• Develop legal research skills, including the ability to search for relevant primary and secondary sources.
• Identify and respond to legal ethical issues under time pressure.

Student instructions for the multiple choice exam:

The instructions below will still be available to you once you have started the quiz. However, to save time, you should be thoroughly familiar with them before you move on.

Firefox is the recommended browser to use (please update your browser regularly). Do not use the browser Back or Forward buttons whilst in the quiz.

Once you begin your quiz attempt you will see the timer begin in the top right corner. You will have one hour to complete the quiz.

The quiz will shut down at 9pm Sydney time.  You must commence the quiz by 8pm if you wish to have the full hour to complete it.

Please use the Save and Next button at base of screen to save and move to the next page of question/s. This will finally take you to a Summary screen which indicates the questions you have answered. If you have missed any questions (or you would like to review a question), providing you have time remaining, you can click on these to return to the quiz. Then click Save and Review at top right to return to the Summary screen. When you are happy that all questions have been answered please click the Submit button at the base of the Summary Screen.

(Note: if you need to leave the quiz during the attempt you can log back in and resume provided there is time remaining on the timer. The timer countdown is not paused when you leave the quiz)

Choose the most correct answer for each question.

This is a timed assessment and no late submissions will be accepted.