Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

• recognise the ‘patchwork' of consumer laws, consumer protection schemes and bodies involved in consumer protection - which is currently going through major changes
• identify situations to which consumer protection applies and identify the appropriate laws and apply them to your client's case
• advise a client on appropriate causes of action and remedies
• identify key factual issues relevant to a client's case
• understand the strengths and weaknesses of a client's case
• argue a client's case effectively by making convincing arguments and dealing with counter-arguments
• accurately advise a client on their rights and obligations and make strategic recommendations for resolving legal problems
• draft a court pleading.

Other Information

This is an 8-week online course and is offered four times a year in the first, second, third and fourth teaching period.

This is a specialist classification in Graduate Studies Select.  In addition to being an elective course in the GDLP program, it can be used as part of the articulation into the LLM and LLM (in practice) programs.

Indicative Assessment

The assessment tasks include:

• preparing an initial oral advice to give a client (incorporating interviewing skills to accurately obtain relevant information from a client to accurately identify the appropriate laws that may apply to a client's case and provide accurate advice)
• follow-up written advice including various options available and making a recommendation of the most appropriate way forward
• drafting a court pleading
• an online quiz which will cover various topics in the course generally.

More information about the means of assessment (and due dates) will be available on the course home page at the beginning of the course.

The ANU uses Turnitin to enhance student citation and referencing techniques, and to assess assignment submissions as a component of the University's approach to managing Academic Integrity. While the use of Turnitin is not mandatory, the ANU highly recommends Turnitin is used by both teaching staff and students. For additional information regarding Turnitin please visit the ANU Online website.

Workload

There are no set contact hours for this course as there are no live tutorials.  Students will be required to:

• undertake reading
• listen to tutorials
• undertake independent research
• participate in the discussion forums

in preparation for the assessments and the hours required will depend on each individual student.

Prescribed Texts

Nil

Preliminary Reading

A list of useful texts, consumer-related websites and other resources will be available in the Content Book and under the "Resources" section on the course home page.

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