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Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW3167: Access to Justice Clinic
This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.
Module Aims
In this module, you will develop valuable skills such as interviewing and counselling, public speaking, and client record keeping, and gain a broader understanding of what access to justice really means. Through studying the legal system in the areas of criminal justice, housing, benefits, debt, and employment law, you will learn to identify the barriers to justice. In identifying these barriers, you will discuss and develop pathways for individuals to access justice. You will also learn how to explain complex legal information to laypersons as part of creating this access to justice
| On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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| Module-Specific Skills | 1. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of the means through which access to justice can be facilitated, and a substantial range of major relevant concepts and issues 2. Critically evaluate the extent to which access to justice is facilitated in the UK 3. Demonstrate critical awareness of the social and contextual implications of access to justice 4. Demonstrate ability to identify, explain and critically evaluate key issues relating to access to justice |
| Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. Demonstrate detailed knowledge and understanding of a range of legal concepts, values, principles, institutions and procedures, and the ability to explain the relationships among them, as well as their limits 6. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of legal concepts and their contextual/social/political implications 7. Demonstrate flexible capacity to define complex legal problems, identify their relative significance and select appropriate methods for investigating and critically evaluating them 8. Select, integrate and present coherently and reflectively, relevant law and legal/theoretical arguments |
| Personal and Key Skills | 9. Interact effectively and proactively within a team/learning group, to share information and ideas, and to manage conflict 10. Manage relevant learning resources/ information/ learning strategies and to develop own arguments and opinions with minimum guidance 11. Communicate and engage in debate effectively and accurately, in a manner appropriate to the discipline/ different contexts 12. Plan and undertake tasks, individually and with others, with minimum guidance, to reflect critically on the learning process and make use of feedback 13. Identify, retrieve and use efficiently a range of resources with minimum guidance |