4. Registration - Enrolment
{a) An app 1 i cant may app 1 y for registration as ( i ) a full-time student; or (ii) a part-time internal student.
(b) LL.M. classes will normally be held in the early
evening between 6 and Bpm.
(c) A student who fails in one or more subjects in a year may re-enrol for and repeat the subject or subjects failed, and may enrol for other subjects of the course, subject to these Rules, to availability of the subjects in the timetable and to General Examination Rules 41·46 which relate to unsatisfactory academic performance and are set out earlier in this Handbook.
(d) Except with the approval of the Dean of the Faculty
of Law, a full-time student shall not enrol in more than the equivalent of 4 whole year subjects in any year and a part-time internal student shall not enrol in more than the equivalent of 2 whole year subjects in any year.
(e) Subject to these Rules and to availability of the
subject or subjects in the timetable, a student shall enrol each year for the subject or subjects which
heor she wishes to study during that year.
5. Course Structure
(a) The course structure comprises 4 who 1 e year subjects and a minor thesis.
{b) The subjects from which the 4 whole year subjects shall be chosen are, subject to availability:
LWN001 LWN002 LWN003 LWN004 LWNOOS LWN006 LWN007 LWN008 LWN009 LWN010 LWN011 LWN012 LWN013 LWN014 LWN015 LWN016
Advanced Company Law Advanced Constitutional Law Advanced Family Law
Advanced Law of Trusts Advanced Trace Practices Law
Business Planning: Taxation Constraints Commercial Arbitration
Commercial Leases
Law Re 1 ati ng to Bui 1 ding and Engineering Contracts
Legislation Li ti gati on
Pacific Legal Systems
Commercial Remedies
Resources Development Law
The Criminal Justice System
Tribunals and Enquiries
(c) The code number of the minor thesis shall be LWN100.
(d) Each subject, including the minor thesis, has an EFTSU credit of 20 for the purpose of the Higher Education Contribution Scheme.
6. Attendance
In the case of a subject other than the minor thesis, there shall be 2 hours of classes in each week of each semester. A full-time student, or a part-time internal student, shall attend the appropriate classes punctually and regularly and any such student who fails so to attend may be deemed by the Dean of the Faculty of Law ineligible to sit for the examination or examinations in the subjects or subjects involved. For the purposes of this Rule, a student who attends 1 ess than 70% of the classes shown in the timetable shall, save in exceptional circumstances, be deemed to have fai 1 ed to attend the classes punctually and regularly.
7. Minor Thesis
A minor thesis shall be not less than 20,000 words and not more than 30,000 words in length, and shall be prepared in accordance with the paper "Presentation of legal Theses" by EM Campbell, copies of which are held in the Law Library. It shall include a title page, table of contents and bibliography.
A student shall submit a topic for the minor thesis to the Dean of the Faculty of Law not later than the end of February in year in which the student is enrolled for the minor thesis. At the same time, the student shall submit the name of a supervisor willing to supervise the thesis.
If the topic and the supervisor are approved, the student shall pursue his or her research for the thesis under the direction of the supervisor.
8. Assessment
(a) In the case of subjects other than the minor
thesis, assessment shall be a combination of an
unseen written examination of 3 hours duration with
half an hour's reading time at the end of the year
and research and/or seminar papers and other
material presented by the due date or dates during
the year. The examination shall be worth 50% of
the marks for the subject and the research and/or
seminar papers and other materials shall be
worth 50%.
(b) In the case of a minor thesis, the student shall submit four clear typed copies of his or her thesis to the Dean of the Faculty of Law not 1 ater than the end of October in the year in which the student is enrolled for the minor thesis. On submission of the thesis, the student shall furnish a statement signed by him or her that the thesis is his or her work a 1 one, except where due acknowledgement is made in the text, and does not include material which has been previously submitted or accepted for a degree or diploma. The thesis shall be referred to two examiners, at least one of whom shall be an external examiner. Each examiner shall report as to whether in his or her opinion, the thesis is of sufficient merit and is one that is likely to be accepted for publication by a learned journal.
Each examiner shall also recommend that the thesis -
9. Passes
(i) ( i i) (iii)be accepted; or not be accepted; or
be accepted subject to amendments to be made to the satisfaction of the supervisor, and, in any event, shall recommend that the thesis be awarded a grade of fail or one of the pass grades referred to in Rule 9(c) below. Following acceptance of the thesis, one copy sha 11 be bound in an approved form at the student's expense and handed to the Law Librarian for deposit in the QUT Faculty of Law library. Any corrections resulting from the examiners' assessment shall be made prior to binding, and by re .. typing if they would otherwise be obtrusive.
(a) In order to gain a pass in a subject other than the minor thesis, a student shall satisfy the attendance and assessment requirements specified in these Rules and shall obtain a pass mark in that subject, the total number of marks for the subject being allocated between research and/or seminar papers and other material presented during the year, and the written examination at the end of the year, in accordance with these Rules.
(b) In order to gain a pass in the minor thesis, a student shall satisfy the minor thesis and assessment requirements specified in these Rules and shall obtain a pass grade or better for the minor thesis.
(c) A student may pass, or pass with credit, or pass
with distinction, or pass with high distinction, in
accordance with General Examination Rule 36 which
is set out earlier in this Handbook.
10.
~Attention is drawn to Geri.eral Examination Rules 41-46 which relate to unsatisfactory academic performance and which are referred to in Rule 4(c) of these Rules and are set out earlier in this Handbook.
A student shall retain credit for any subject or subjects passed in the year in which he or she is enrolled.
12. Credit for Sub·ects Passed Other Than in the Course for the aster o aws by oursework egree at the U
Rules concerning the granting of exemptions are detailed
under "Rules Relating to Student Matters" in Section 4 of
this Handbook.
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