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Overview

The Police Powers Clinic is an experiential learning program located within Redfern Legal Centre, an independent, non-profit community centre dedicated to promoting social justice and human rights. Redfern Legal Centre provides a state-wide specialist legal advice service on police powers. In this course students will put their legal skills and knowledge to use and gain practical experience of law and policing in action. At the same time students will be critically analysing the effect of law and police practices on disadvantaged clients in a community legal centre setting. Students will be assisting Solicitors in advising clients in making complaints against the police, as well as conducting work on research, policy and community legal education under the supervision of the Police Powers Clinic convenor. Through client work, advocacy and law reform projects and a weekly two hour seminar, the program aims to strengthen students' practical skills in research, writing, advocacy, problem-solving, team work and independent judgment. Students will spend 1 day (7 hours-9am to 5pm) at Redfern Legal Centre each week for 10 weeks. There will be a half-day induction program at the Centre which is compulsory for all students.

Conditions for Enrolment

Completion of 78 UOC in LAWS courses including LAWS1022 Criminal Laws (or LAWS1011)

Exclusion Courses

Course Attributes

Work Integrated Learning

Delivery

In-person - Standard (usually weekly or fortnightly)

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Course Outline

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Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$1829
Domestic Students	$5670
International Students	$5670

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Faculty
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School
School: The academic unit responsible for teaching in disciplines or subject areas (school is part of a faculty).

School of Law, Society and Criminology

Study Level
Study Level refers to the academic level of a program, specialisation or course.

Undergraduate

Offering Terms
Depending on the Academic Calendar type, an offering term generally refers to an academic teaching period of between 8-13 weeks in duration.

Term 1, Term 2, Term 3

Campus

Sydney

Academic Calendar

Field of Education

090999 Law not elsewhere classified

Police Powers Clinic

LAWS3319

6 Units of Credit