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Ms Kellie Toole (co-cordinator) Email: kellie.toole@adelaide.edu.au Phone 83134440
Prof Ngaire Naffine (co-cordinator)  Email: ngaire.naffine@adelaide.edu.au Phone 83135816

Criminal Law and Procedure 2017: Lecture Schedule 



General Principles

Week 1: Criminal Law and Responsibility: Principles and Method

Week 2: The Elements of Offences and their Analysis 



Offences and Defences

Week 3: Offences of Dishonesty

Week 4: Unlawful Killing

Week 5: Non Sexual Offences against the Person

Week 6: Sexual Offences against the Person

Week 7: Scope of Responsibility: Attempts and Complicity

Week 8: Defences Part 1 - Mental State Defences: Mental Impairment and Intoxication 

Week 9: Defences Part 2 - Defences of Circumstance: Self Defence, Duress and Necessity 



Criminal Procedure

Week 10: Policing and Exclusion of Evidence

Week 11: Prosecution, Defence and the Fair Trial

Week 12: Bail and Sentencing, and Revision 

 




 

Legal Practitioners' Education and Admissions Council (LPEAC) sets rules for the academic requirements for admission to legal practice in South 最新糖心Vlog. Students must demonstrate a satisfactory level of understanding and application of 11 core areas of legal knowledge. This course teaches the following topics within these core areas:

Criminal Law
· The definition of crime and the general principles of criminal law (Priestley 1)
· The major theories of criminal responsibility
· The aims of the criminal law (Priestley 3)
· General Doctrines (Priestley 7)
· The basic elements of an offence and their analysis (Priestley 2)
· The basis of fault, strict and absolute liability (Priestley 8)
· The substantive law of selected major offences including homicide and defences (Priestley 4); Non Fatal offences against the person and defences (Priestley 5); Offences against Property (Priestley 6)
· The extension of liability through the law of attempts and complicity (Priestley 8)
· The general defences (Priestley 8)

Criminal Procedure
Police Investigation, Apprehension, Interrogation and Seizure (Priestley 9)
· Bringing Accused Persons to Court – Prosecution and Defence (Priestley 9)
· The Reception of Evidence and the Idea of the Fair Trial (Priestley 9)


On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 
1. Analyse principles of criminal responsibility, undertake self-directed legal research with primary and secondary materials, and analyse and evaluate legal information relating to criminal law and legal theory;
2. Apply criminal law to complex issues, and critique the operation of criminal law from both a policy and theoretical/principled perspective, both individually and as part of a team;
3. Structure and sustain concise and cohesive written and oral arguments for a legal and lay audience;
4. Develop oral and written arguments on issues relating to the drafting of new criminal laws and the application of existing criminal laws to common scenarios that arise in criminal practice;
5. Analyse the impact of criminal law from a policy perspective, with a focus on the impact on people who are vulnerable or outside the mainstream culture;
6. Reflect on their abilities to effectively undertake work as a member of a team as demonstrated by the preparation for an involvement in the group presentation.

David Caruso et al South 最新糖心Vlogn Criminal Law: Review and Critique (2nd ed, Lexis Nexis, 2016)

Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 (SA)

Selected course material will be made available on MyUni. This will include lecture guides, seminar topics, assessment information and instructions. Students are expected to check MyUni regularly to keep up to date with these materials and with course announcements.

The course will be presented in 36 hours of lectures (12 x 2 hours and 12 x 1 hours), 24 seminar hours (12 x 2 hours) and at least 1 weekly hour of self-directed structured learning which will take the form of the Structured Course in Basic Ideas (SCBI).

Pedagogical Approach of the SCBI: The SCBI will entail independent, guided, structured learning, and will be linked into the main course through student presentations at weekly seminars.

Lectures and seminars commence in Week 1 and are presented weekly thereafter through weeks 1-12.

Students will be required to work collaboratively in the preparation and presentation of the oral presentation to their seminar group.

Students in the course are expected to attend all lectures and are required to attend their weekly seminars as well as dedicate at least one hour per week to the Structured Course in Basic Ideas. The 最新糖心Vlog expects full time students (those undertaking 12 units per semester) to devote a total of 48 hours per week to their studies. Preparation for seminars is essential. It is equally essential to ensure that you bring relevant legislation or other required discussion material to seminars and, when required, to lectures.

Activity 1: Attendance at the 2 weekly lectures.
Activity 2: Attendance and participation in a two-hour weekly seminar, which will include one group oral presentation.
Activity 3: At least an hour per week engaged in the Structured Course in Basic Ideas (SCBI).

Aims of the SCBI: The aims of the SCBI are to develop in each student:

(a) a critical understanding of 12 basic ideas of criminal law by means of a directed and structured reading stream designed to develop independent learning
(b) critical skills in scholarly analysis as well as a comprehension of the basic ideas running through the substantive and procedural law in Criminal Law and Procedure
(c) the ability to undertake group work for the purpose of analysing an area of law and presenting the findings to a legal audience. 

Directions and Tasks for the SCBI: There will be 12 structured readings accompanied by (a) written directions about how they are to be read, and (b) a set of questions that need to be addressed. In each seminar, students must independently identify, describe and criticise a basic idea in criminal law and procedure. The 12 Basic Ideas will correspond to the staged development of the rest of the course. (For example the structured reading on the Dishonesty Offences examines a scholarly work on the idea of dishonesty and its significance for these offences; the structured reading on Offences Against the Person examines the idea of consent to harm.) Oral Directions on the Structured Course in Ideas will also be given in the first seminar. At that time there there will be an opportunity for students to ask questions, receive preliminary guidance and for any related discussion. Thereafter, students will be expected to be self-directed and to proceed independently.

Expectations of the SCBI:

Each student is required to:

(a) dedicate at least one hour each week of their own time to reading the set SCBI reading, preparing answers to the guided questions, and contributing to discussion in seminars
(b) deliver one 20 minute presentation as part of a group of 3 students. The presentation should introduce and explain the relevant idea from the SCBI, address the set questions, apply it to the problems for that week, and engage the class in discussion.

The essay component of the exam will require a grasp of all 12 ideas and an appreciation of their significance and relationship to one another.

Not applicable.

Assessment Task	% of final mark	Dates	Length	Redeemable	Learning Outcomes
Attendance and satisfactory participation at seminars	Pass/Fail	weekly	Individual	No	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Presentation at seminars (group)	10%	allocated in seminar 1	20 minutes	No	1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Quiz 1 - Element and He Kaw Teh analysis	5%	open 24th-25th March	15 minutes	No	1, 2
Quiz 2 - Criminal Defences	5%	open 19th-20th May	15 minutes	No	1, 2
Assignment	20%	Due: 14 April	2000 words	YES (subject to conditions - see below)	1, 2, 3, 5
Exam	60%	Exam Period	3 hours plus reading time	-	1, 2, 3, 5

Presentation mark – non redemption: A presentation mark is not redeemable.

Group Presentation on Structured Course in Basic Ideas (SCBI) [10%] Compulsory, NOT redeemable

Each student will be required to deliver one 20 minute presentation as part of a group of 3 students. The presentations will take place at the beginning of each seminar and should introduce and explain the relevant idea from the SCBI, address the set questions, apply it to the problems for that week, and engage the class in discussion. Unless there are exceptional reasons, students who present together will be assigned the same mark. Exceptional reasons may include a failure to be present at the SCBI presentations of others.

Groups for presentations will be formed in the first seminar so students must attend week 1. If students miss week 1, they will have to seek to join a presentation group in the next week they attend. If all topics are already allocated to groups of 3 students, the student who missed week 1 may be precluded from delivering a presentation and be ineligible to receive a grade for the assessment task. Students will not be allocated to presentation groups outside of seminars.

A pass in the group presentation is not a prerequisite for passing Criminal Law and Procedure.

Critical Analysis Assignment [20%] Compulsory, Redeemable if it achieves a pass grade or a fail grade that is deemed to be a bona fide effort

The assignment will be made available, via MyUni, in Week 4 or 5. It will require research and/or critical analysis of:

The subject matter of the assignment will be drawn from the topics that will be examined in the final examination in Criminal Law and Procedure. The assignment will offer, however, an opportunity for a more reflective, research based consideration of the topic.

A pass in the assignment is not a prerequisite for passing Criminal Law and Procedure.

Online Element and He Kaw Teh Analysis Quiz 5%, Compulsory, NOT Redeemable

Each student will be required to complete a multiple-choice online MyUni quiz assessing their knowledge of the principles of element analysis; their ability to apply element analysis to a piece of unfamiliar legislation; their knowledge of the principles of He Kaw Teh analysis; their ability to apply He Kaw Teh analysis to a piece of unfamiliar legislation

Students will have 15 minutes to complete the quiz during a 48 hour period covering Friday 24 March and Saturday 25 March 2017.

A pass in the quiz is not a prerequisite for passing Criminal Law and Procedure.

Online Defences Quiz 5%, Compulsory, NOT Redeemable

Each student will be required to complete a multiple-choice online MyUni quiz assessing their knowledge of the main defences to crime; understanding of their underlying principles and justifications; appreciation of the commonalities and differences between the defences and where they may overlap; ability to apply this knowledge to a fact situation.

Students will have 15 minutes to complete the quiz during a 48 hour period covering Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 2017.

A pass in the quiz is not a prerequisite for passing Criminal Law and Procedure.

Submission of Assignments
Return of Assignments:
Assignments will be returned within 3-4 weeks of the due date for submission of the assignment

Late Submission: 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every 24 hours or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend. For example, an essay that is submitted after the due date and time but within the first 24 hour period, and that has been graded at 63%, will have 5% deducted, for a final grade of 58%. An essay that is more than 24 hours late will lose 10%, etc. Hard copy submissions made after 5.00pm on a Friday will be assumed to have been submitted on the next business day and will be penalised accordingly.

Word Length: Assignments which exceed the allocated length (word length or page limit) will be subject to a penalty of 5% of total marks possible per 100 words or part thereof (ie with a word limit of 3,000, an essay graded 63% will have 5% deducted if it is 3001 words long, for a final grade of 58%, 10% if it is 3101 words long, etc). Words are calculated including all footnotes and headings within the text but excluding cover page information. Quotations and all referencing information are included in the word count.

Courses for which a result of conceded pass has been obtained may not be presented towards the degree requirements for the Bachelor of Laws or the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Laws programs, or any postgraduate law program, nor to satisfy prerequisite requirements within any law course.

Approval of Results by Board of Examiners
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Counselling Service

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Plagiarism and other forms of cheating

Plagiarism is a serious act of academic misconduct. All students must be familiar with the Adelaide Law School Enrolment Guide, and should note in particular the sections relating to plagiarism, grievance procedures and academic conduct within the Law School and the 最新糖心Vlog.

Plagiarism is a serious matter and is treated as such by the Law School and the 最新糖心Vlog. Please be aware that “academic dishonesty” (which goes beyond plagiarism) can be a ground for a refusal by the Supreme Court of South 最新糖心Vlog to refuse to admit a person to practice as a legal practitioner in South 最新糖心Vlog.

Academic honesty is an essential aspect of ethical and honest behaviour, which is central to the practice of the law and an understanding of what it is to be a lawyer.