Associate Degree in Legal Studies

This course is designed to enable students to acquire a broad understanding of the process of law in our society as well as gaining a range of legal and practical skills.

It caters for two groups of students, those who have a general interest in legal issues without wishing to complete a full law degree and those who wish to gauge their interest in legal studies and later seek to undertake a full law degree program.

Students successfully completing this program are eligible for entry into the Bachelor of Laws program with significant advanced standing.

This course is offered both internally and externally.

External students have access to live online tutorials as well as online access to the recordings of all lectures, enabling them to complete the course from anywhere in the world.

Common(2 units) - 20

Common units totalling 20 credit points as detailed below:

CUC107

Plus either:

CUC100

or

CUC106

Select

Common Units

Core(6 units) - 60

Compulsory Core units totalling 60 credit points as detailed below. LWZ115 Legal Process (replaces LWZ111 from 2016 which replaced LWZ100A and LWZ100B from 2015) LWZ114 Criminal Law LWZ116 Torts LWZ118 Contracts LWZ204 Constitutional Law (replaces LWZ202 and LWZ203 from 2015) LWZ223 Property Law Students transferring from the ADLS to the XLEST1 in 2016 should refer to the course changes and transitional arrangement notes provided below and included in the XLEST1 course structure. Students transferring from the ADLS3 to the ADLS in 2015 should refer to the course changes and transitional arrangement notes provided below.

Specialist Electives(5 units) - 50

Specialist Elective units totalling 50 credit points selected from the following: Note: Note all Specialist Elective units are offered every year Specialist Electives offered each year LWA210 Contemporary Issues (unit title change 2016) LWA211 Contemporary Issues 2 (last offered 2015) LWS221 Dispute Resolution (last offered 2015) (replaced by LWA207 from 2019) (or LWS221P Dispute Resolution (Clinical Practice) (recoded LWP221) LWS320 Practical Advocacy (last offered 2015) LWZ210 Equity LWZ211 Trusts LWZ304 Administrative Law (replaces LWZ202 and LWZ312 from 2015) LWZ315 Corporations Law LWZ316 Evidence LWZ317 Civil Procedure LWZ320 Professional Responsibility Specialist Electives offered in alternate years

LWA112 Environmental and Planning Law LWA213 Family Law (next offered 2021) or LWA213P Family Law (Clinical Practice) (recoded LWP213) LWA214 Employment Law (last offered 2014) LWA215 Advanced Criminal Law (last offered 2015) LWA216 Advanced Torts (last offered 2015) LWA218 Advanced Contracts (last offered 2013) LWA223 Advanced Property Law (last offered 2015) LWB201 Indigenous Peoples and the Legal System (recoded LWA111 2016) LWB205 Legal History and Jurisprudence (recoded LWA110 Legal History from 2016 - offered each year) LWB206 Human Rights Law (recoded LWA221 2016) LWA316 Intellectual Property Law (next offered 2020) LWA318 International Law (replaced by LWA321 Public International Law 2016) LWA325 Succession (next offered 2021) LWA328 Competition and Consumer Law (next offered 2021) LWA329 Conveyancing Law LWA330 Cyber Law (last offered 2015) LWB313 Indigenous Peoples and Property Law (last offered 2015)

Electives(3 units) - 30

Units totalling 30 credit points selected from undergraduate units offered by the University.

- 160

Total Credit Points

Admission requirements are met by one of the following: Successful completion of the Northern Territory Certificate of Education and Training (or equivalent) and the awarding of an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) of at least 60*. Successful completion of a national qualification at Certificate IV level or higher. Successful completion of at least 0.5 year of full-time study (or equivalent) of a higher education degree/diploma. Overseas secondary or tertiary qualifications considered equivalent to the above Australian qualifications. Attainment of a STAT Multiple Choice score of 135 (or a score of 145 if prior to May 2010). Successful completion of the Tertiary Enabling Program, the Preparation for Tertiary Success courses, or other recognised tertiary preparation course. Submission of an acceptable personal competencies statement and/or employment experience. * After any applicable adjustment factors have been applied.