Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Legal Practice Entry (Bedford Park)

The Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - Legal Practice Entry aims to provide students with a sound training in law and legal skills and emphasise the acquisition on foundation legal skills through the integration of skills training with the teaching of substantive subjects. This degree instils in students a desire for just outcomes, a broad outlook on law and a commitment to ethical conduct and equips students to develop an innovation and entrepreneurial mindset to respond to 21st century opportunities. The course satisfies the academic requirements for admission as a barrister and solicitor in the State of South Australia. Students who complete this award cannot be admitted to Legal Practice without completing further practical training via the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice. Successful applicants to this course are issued a conditional offer of entry to the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, subject to meeting progression requirements.

Working with key staff and students with similar capabilities, the degree includes an enhanced research training experience. This will provide opportunities for students to work together as they pursue their studies, develop their interests and share ideas.

On completion of this degree students will be able to demonstrate an extensive and well-founded knowledge of key areas of current Australian law, including new and developing areas with the ability to find, interpret, understand and critique Australian law within its historical and comparative contexts, using effective learning strategies and appropriate methods, including both recent and traditional technologies. Students will have the ability to use their knowledge to plan, analyse and think critically, logically and creatively, including by reflecting upon and evaluating facts, ideas, options and resolutions to disputes and debates, and considering client instructions and the requirements of procedural and jurisdictional contexts and an awareness of the philosophy and the social and global contexts of law, and willingness to uphold their community responsibility to advocate for justice and to act with integrity in all matters in their professional work and personal lives.

Expand your career options by combining this degree with the following:

• Bachelor of Accounting (SATAC code 244001)
• Bachelor of Arts (SATAC code 214031)
• Bachelor of Business (SATAC code 214761)
• Bachelor of Criminology (SATAC code 234661)
• Bachelor of Information Technology (SATAC code 214201)
• Bachelor of International Relations and Political Science (SATAC code 244191)
• Bachelor of Science (SATAC code 234511)

Combining degrees enables students to follow their interests and aspirations and enhance their career prospects by undertaking a second area of study in addition to their primary degree. Completing an approved combined degree option will normally add at least one extra year (full-time equivalent) to their studies. For example, students combining two three-year full-time equivalent degrees are normally able to complete both degrees in four years of full-time equivalent study. Students graduate with two degrees, expanding employment opportunities. Further information http://www.flinders.edu.au/study/explore/combined-degrees .

Students of this degree who after completing 121 units of study must also complete the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice to make them eligible to apply to the Supreme Court for admission to practise as a barrister and solicitor in South Australia. Successful applicants to this course are issued a conditional offer of entry to the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, subject to meeting progression requirements. The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is taught in partnership with Leo Cussen Centre for Law over 5 rotations including Induction, Transactions (Commercial and Corporate Practice and Property Practice), Specialist (2 options), Disputes (Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution), and Profession Ready.

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is a postgraduate award, and is one year in length of full-time study, or the equivalent part-time. Graduates will have the knowledge and skills to apply theoretical understanding of the law to practical situations, and practice as a legal practitioner.