Ready for Practice is a compulsory capstone course concluding the Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (GDLP). This course complements and builds upon the legal knowledge, skills and values introduced in the Becoming a Practitioner intensive course, and as further developed by the Professional Practice Core course, Legal Practice Experience and elective courses. This course also assists students to reflect upon the portfolio of work and evidence gathered throughout their program.
Recognising the diverse careers of legal professionals, the course provides an avenue to reflect upon their roles in the profession, capabilities and intentions as they transition to becoming an Australian lawyer.
In this course students will be provided with opportunities to:
- Develop independent views of their own professional formation, values, aspirations and role as a lawyer. Discuss and practice responses and approaches to ethical dilemmas, through a Giving Voice to Values experiential module; and
- Further develop legal skills in an identified area, relative to individual students’ goals
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Critically reflect on the student’s own portfolio of work and legal practice experience to develop, conceptualise and articulate a view of their own professional formation, including knowledge, skills and values.
- Critically examine their role as a lawyer in the current and future context of legal services and legal practices.
- Evaluate the student’s own skills in the context of considering the type of legal professional the student would like to be, and communicate these ideas in oral form, to other students and teaching staff.
- Identify a legal skill for further development and research and apply established theories or techniques applicable to a complex task relating to that skill.
- Identify relevant concepts from the Giving Voice to Values approach to resolve a complex ethical dilemma or conflict and apply these concepts towards the resolution of that dilemma or conflict.
Other Information
For further information about this course or to apply for a permission code if you don't meet the prerequisite, please go to ANU School of Legal Practice website.Indicative Assessment
- Two Professional Formation tasks: Online oral presentation & Written reflection on Portfolio (null) [LO 1,2,3]
- An advanced legal skills development task (null) [LO 4]
- Two Giving Voice to Values tasks: Structured written analysis & Online oral performance and participation (null) [LO 5]
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Workload
The course is conducted intensively over three weeks with an expected average workload of 18-20 hours per week, including assessment activities.It will require continuous online participation throughout the course, as students will be required to participate in formative assessment activities in order to satisfy course completion requirements.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
You will need to contact the ANU School of Legal Practice to request a permission code to enrol in this course.
Prescribed Texts
No prescribed texts.
Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 34
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $1570 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $2198 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
ANU utilises MyTimetable to enable students to view the timetable for their enrolled courses, browse, then self-allocate to small teaching activities / tutorials so they can better plan their time. Find out more on the Timetable webpage.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.
Summer Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1582 | 01 Feb 2021 | 05 Feb 2021 | 05 Feb 2021 | 19 Feb 2021 | Online | View |
| 1587 | 22 Mar 2021 | 26 Mar 2021 | 26 Mar 2021 | 09 Apr 2021 | Online | View |
Autumn Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3540 | 14 Jun 2021 | 18 Jun 2021 | 18 Jun 2021 | 02 Jul 2021 | Online | View |
Winter Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4609 | 23 Aug 2021 | 27 Aug 2021 | 27 Aug 2021 | 10 Sep 2021 | Online | View |
Spring Session
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6504 | 04 Oct 2021 | 08 Oct 2021 | 08 Oct 2021 | 22 Oct 2021 | Online | View |
| 6505 | 15 Nov 2021 | 19 Nov 2021 | 19 Nov 2021 | 03 Dec 2021 | Online | View |
