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LEGAL500-22A (NET)
Legal System and Methods
15 Points
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Convenor(s)
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Jennifer Campion
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N.5.19
jennifer.campion@waikato.ac.nz
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Lecturer(s)
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Dee Raman
dee.raman@waikato.ac.nz
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Paper Description
Paper Structure
This is a NET paper offered in the A trimester through a combination of directed teaching and learning using a variety of delivery presentations (written, audio, video, virtual) online via the University's e-learning platform called Moodle. The teaching component comprises 4 hours per week in A Trimester as follows:
- Students will read Theme Guide-sheets that will assist them through the reading material, tutorial activity and assessment;
- Students will view a series of mini lectures presented for selected Themes that will cover legal concepts associated with the different areas of law covered.
- Students will contribute to 10 compulsory Tutorial Forums in selected weeks.
- Students will conduct legal research using the online Law Library databases to complete a proposal and a legal research assignment.
- Students will interact and communicate through specific online Forums to build a learner-friendly online community for those enrolled in the paper.
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:
Assessment
There are 3 assessment components in this paper as set out below.
Requirements for assessed work
Te Piringa Faculty of Law procedures for the presentation, submission and referencing of course work are set out in the Te Piringa Faculty of Law Undergraduate Handbook @ p35 which is available from http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/undergraduate.
Assignment resources are available online at http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/student/
Assessment Components
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.
Required and Recommended Readings
Required Readings
All relevant reading and viewing material will be provided online on Moodle for this paper.
An online copy of Coppard A, McLay G, Murray C, & Orpin-Dowell J, New Zealand Law Style Guide (3rd ed, Thomson Reuters, New Zealand, 2018) is accessible on Te Piringa Faculty of Law webpage under Course Resources at (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/law/student).
In addition to the texts identified above Te Piringa Faculty of Law requires that students access course materials for this paper on Moodle (http://elearn.waikato.ac.nz), the University of Waikato’s online learning system. Any such material is provided on the following terms:
University of Waikato owns the intellectual property rights, including copyright, in and to this site, or has acquired the necessary licenses to display the material on the site. As a student of the Te Piringa Faculty of Law, you are granted a limited license to use (access, display or print a single copy) the material from the papers in which you are enrolled for the purposes of participating in the paper only, provided the information is not modified. Materials may not under any circumstances be copied, stored, distributed or provided in any form or method whatsoever to any third party. Any other use of the material is prohibited. None of the material may be otherwise reproduced, reformatted, republished or re-disseminated in any manner or form without the prior written consent of University of Waikato. To obtain such consent, please contact the Te Piringa Faculty of Law.
Recommended Readings
Note: All relevant readings and viewing material will be provided online on Moodle for the paper.
If students would like to access further readings, we recommend the following texts:
S Penk and MR Russell New Zealand Legal Method Handbook (2nd ed,Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2018).
Ruru, J., K., Scott, P., & Webb, D., The New Zealand Legal System (6th ed, LexisNexis NZ Limited, Wellington, 2016).
Grant Morris, Law Alive: The New Zealand Legal System in Context (4th ed, Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2019).
Finn, J., Todd, S., Barber, M., Burrows, Finn and Todd on the Law of Contract in New Zealand (6th ed, LexisNexis NZ Limited, Wellington, 2018).
Joseph, Phillip A., Joseph on Constitutional and Administrative Law (5th ed, Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2021).
Leigh Miller and Matthew Barber Understanding Commercial Law (9th ed, LexisNexis NZ Limited, Wellington, 2019).
Online Support
Online support for this paper is provided via Moodle.
If you require assistance with Moodle, or encounter any problems, please contact the Help Desk. You can send a message to Help Desk by using the instant message service in your paper (from the participants list within the People block). Alternatively, you can email them directly at help@waikato.ac.nz or call 838 4008.
Workload
Linkages to Other Papers
The Foundations in Legal Studies paper is a piggy back for this paper. Subject to approval, the paper may be taken as an individual interest paper or by students enrolled in a qualification other than Law.
Note that this paper cannot be used towards the LLB degree.
Restriction(s)
Restrictions: LEGAL506. Graduates from the Waikato LLB degree programmes and the BA in Law programmes (or equivalent from another university) are precluded from enrolling in this paper which is aimed specifically at meeting the needs of non-law graduates.