LAW112 – Introduction to the Australian Legal System

Introduction

Welcome to your LAW112 residential school thinkspace site. I look forward to working with you during the 3 day residential school August 24-26 inclusive. The residential school program will focus on:

Statutory Interpretation
Case Analysis
Legal Research Strategies
Peer to peer collaboration
Developing networks with the legal profession through guest lectures
Advocacy and presentation skills
The creation of study groups
Discussion of how to tackle assessments
Indigenous cultural awareness and critical reflexivity

Your residential school will be delivered online and will be a combination of pre- recorded sessions and live zoom sessions. As the LAW112 residential school is compulsory you are required to watch all pre-recordings and attend all live zoom sessions.

To access the online residential school please click on the “Residential school” link found in the left-hand panel of the Interact2 site.

You have two options with regards to your commitment to the residential school:

Watch the pre-recorded sessions prior to 24 August at your own pace and then set aside the allocated time on 24- 26 August to attend the live zoom sessions; or
Follow the scheduled program and set aside the three days to listen to the recordings and attend the live zoom sessions.

Whether you take option 1 or option 2, I strongly recommend that you complete the sessions in the order that the program provides, so that the activities are correctly sequenced.

Laura Longmore

Subject Coordinator

Workshop Program

Please refer to the attached timetable for detailed information regarding session times, topics, format etc. If applicable, the link for connecting remotely to identified sessions can be found below (‘Attending remotely’).

LAW112 Introduction to the Australian Legal System Program

Guest Speakers & Sessions

Guest Speaker – Bill Walsh
Case analysis – Pre-recorded or listen on 25 August 2020 11:30am Law in Practice – Pre-recorded or listen on 26 August 2020 at 1pm

	Adjunct Associate Professor Bill Walsh	William (Bill) Walsh completed his law degree by distance education at Macquarie University as a mature aged student prior to being called to the Bar in 1983. From 1967 to 1986, he was a serving member of the NSW Police Force performing a variety of police duties in the metropolitan and country areas of the State. From 1987 to 1994, Bill was a Lecturer-in-Law at Mitchell College/Charles Sturt University. For those seven years, he taught internal and distance education students. Bill has practised as a barrister since 1987 in various areas of the law and in the past 15 years has specialised in criminal defence work. He has acted as defence counsel in 400 jury trials before the District and Supreme Courts of New South Wales. He holds postgraduate qualifications of Master of Laws (University of Sydney) and Master of Social Science (Criminology) (Charles Sturt University). In 2016, Bill was appointed Barrister-in-Residence at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt with the title of Adjunct Associate Professor.

Preparation (readings, links, activities)

The following tasks are recommended prior to the indicated day:

Day one:

Topic 7:Indigenous Australians and the law
Appropriate Terminology, Representations and Protocols of Acknowledgement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples (accessed in the Assessment 4 folder)
Assessment 3 exemplar (found in the assessment 3 folder on Interact2)
Assessment 4 exemplar (found in the assessment 4 folder on Interact2)

Day two:

Topic 9: Statutory interpretation: part I (no need to read prescribed readings at this stage unless you have time)
Topic 10: Statutory interpretation: part II (no need to read prescribed readings at this stage unless you have time)
The case subject of Assessment 5: Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Kumar [2017] HCA 11
Assessment 5 exemplar (found in the assessment 5 folder on Interact2)
Exemplar 5 (found in the assessment 5 folder on Interact2)

Please note:

If circumstances arise due to Covid-19 that prevent you from attending the live zoom sessions, the sessions will be recorded, in which case you will be required to watch the recordings. You will need to provide me with the necessary evidence as to why you cannot attend. Please bear in mind that most of the time in the live zoom sessions is group work in breakout rooms which is not recorded and if you do not attend you will not have the opportunity to work in this setting.