Judging and the Judiciary - LAWS8147
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 24
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9235, 5740, 9210 or 5235
Excluded: JURD7447
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course looks at the institutional and individual role of the judge in the justice system. The aim of the course is to examine the constitutional position of the judiciary, the role of the judge in securing access to justice for the Australian public, including the important development of case management, the process of hearing and deciding cases and judicial accountability. The course will cover the following topics:
- Role of the judge in the justice system;
- Constraints on the exercise of judicial power;
- Judicial ethics;
- Access to justice and case management;
- Fact finding;
- Judgment writing;
- Judicial appointments;
- The judiciary and the media.
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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