C07073v3 Graduate Diploma in Australian Law

Award(s): Graduate Diploma in Australian Law (GradDipAustLaw)
UAC code: 942401 (Autumn semester), 945401 (Spring semester)
CRICOS code: 016613F
Load credit points: 48
Course EFTSL: 1
Faculty/institute responsible: Law
Location: City campus

Note(s)

This course is not appropriate for applicants who are already admitted to practise as a legal practitioner in NSW.

Overview
Career options
Additional admission requirements
Additional assumed knowledge
Course duration and attendance
Course structure
Course completion requirements
Professional recognition
Other information

Overview

The Graduate Diploma in Australian Law is designed to permit appropriately qualified legal practitioners from common law jurisdictions outside Australia to satisfy the academic requirements for admission as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of NSW.

Career options

Career options include legal practitioner.

Additional admission requirements

Applicants must either hold a Bachelor's degree in law from outside Australia or be admitted to practise as a legal practitioner in a Common Law jurisdiction outside Australia.

Before lodging an application, applicants must contact the Legal Practitioners Admission Board of the NSW Supreme Court (LPAB) to determine the subjects they are required to complete to be eligible for admission to practise in NSW. Further details about admission can be found online at:

http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lpab

Notification from the LPAB listing the subjects required must accompany the application for admission into the course. If the LPAB-determined subjects total less than five, applicants should consider making a non-award application.

Additional assumed knowledge

Appropriately qualified knowledge of the common law legal system.

Course duration and attendance

Full-time students can complete this course in a minimum of one year. Part-time students can complete the course in a minimum of one-and-a-half years.

Course structure

The course requires completion of a minimum of 48 credit points. However, each candidate's course of study varies depending on the number of subjects they are required to take in order to be admitted to practise in NSW. Subjects other than those listed below may be substituted depending on what subjects the LPAB has required applicants to complete to be eligible for admission to practise.

Course completion requirements

Select 48 credit points from the following options:		48cp
70105 Legal Research	4cp
70113 Legal Process and History	10cp
70217 Criminal Law	6cp
70211 Law of Contract	8cp
70311 Law of Torts	8cp
70616 Federal Constitutional Law	8cp
70317 Real Property	8cp
70318 Personal Property	4cp
70417 Corporate Law	8cp
70617 Administrative Law	8cp
70516 Equity and Trusts	8cp
71005 Practice and Procedure	4cp
71116 Remedies	6cp
71216 Law of Evidence	6cp
Total		48cp

Professional recognition

Supreme Court of NSW

The Legal Practitioners Admission Board (LPAB) may recognise subjects attempted within this course. Applicants are advised to obtain written confirmation of LPAB recognition of subjects attempted within this course prior to enrolling.

Other information

Further information is available from:

Law Information Office
telephone +61 2 9514 3444
fax +61 2 9514 3400
email Law@uts.edu.au