Handbook

Note: This course is scheduled in teaching periods that occur across the exam period and term break in terms 1 and 3.

This course focuses on the transactions commonly dealt with by lawyers practising in the areas of property practice, and commercial and corporate practice. It covers the relevant skills, values and competencies for those practice areas prescribed by the Legal Profession Admission Rules 2015, Schedule 2 (Practical legal training competencies for entry-level lawyers). 

This course builds on and consolidates students' knowledge of property law, company law and commercial law attained during your law degree to complete tasks and activities that reflect the transactions that lawyers commonly undertake in these areas of practice. It will use and further develop students' writing, drafting, legal research, analytical and problem-solving skills, in the context of representing a client in transactions such as the sale and purchase of land, a lease, and the sale or purchase of a business (including the financing of those transactions). 

This course is a mandatory course for the Graduate Diploma in Legal Professional Practice (GDLPP). Students must be enrolled in the GDLPP to enrol in this course and complete the compulsory 5-day onsite component of the Skills in Practice course.