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But the blue indicates the core courses within the LLB degree and the elective courses are the red or orange ones that come in parts three and four. The students sometimes are not sure how many points they need in elective courses and they sometimes get confused about the status of legal ethics and whether or not it's elective. It is elective within the LLB, but it's a requirement, of course, for admission to the bar. So the starting point in working out how many points you need in parts three and four is that across parts two, three, and four of the degree, the law courses need to total 360 points. Now, most of you will have completed part two inclusive of law 298. Law 298 carries 10 points, so that makes part two 130 points, as you can see out on the right of the diagram. Part three is 120 points, and if you have done law 298, then you need only 110 points in part four to make that overall total of 360. If you're one of those students who did the old law 299 up to 2015 before we introduced law 298, it had zero points, and for you, part two will have consisted of 120 points only, and therefore part four will need to be 120 points to make up that overall total of 360. So 360 is the starting point. Deduct the blue and the rest are electives. Makes sense? If any of this is unclear, there will undoubtedly be opportunities during the session where we may be waiting for somebody to come and present about their course where we can revisit any of these generic issues, if you wish. All right, students who are doing honest, on top of all of this, do a further 60 points. So there's a 20 point honest seminar, which is normally taken in part three, but it could be in part four, and then there's a 40 point dissertation, which is a piece of individual research, resulting in about 15,000 word paper that is submitted, which is weighted as 40 points, and that comes in the semester following the completion of part four. So the regulations say, if you're an honest student, your dissertation must be submitted not later than the end of the semester in which you completed the part four requirements for the LLB degree. Eligibility for honest, students who have completed part two can be invited to transfer to the honest programme, and they will need, at that stage, an overall weighted average of 75%. So we're looking at the marks rather than the grades or the grade points, and we are taking into account the results that you got, the marks that you got for law and society, and legal method, and criminal, and public, and torts, and contract, and Law 298, all weighted as 15, 30, or 10 points, respectively. And as long as it comes out overall to 75.0 or higher, then you'll be invited to transfer to the honest programme. Invitations for those who are completing part two this year, and you meet that requirement, will be sent out in the middle of December, and you have until the middle of January to accept the offer to transfer to honest, if you wish, and to indicate what your preferred honest seminar course would be for next year. Once we've had all those responses, some honest seminar courses will be oversubscribed, and so we will have to make a selection, and some students may get their second or even their third choice of honest seminar, and all of that you would know by about the 20th of January next year. And time, if necessary, to amend the courses that you've enrolled in in the meantime. All right, let's talk about enrolment processes because there are some major changes. So firstly, if you are already beyond part two, you're in part three, then you're in the LLB3 group, which means part three and four students, and from the first of November onwards, you can enrol in your courses for next year, subject just to any prerequisite considerations. Now, we don't know exactly when on the first of November enrolments will open, but the indications are that it will not be at midnight, and it's more likely to be at breakfast time than at two or three in the morning. And what the university is concerned about is that it has allowed students to start enrolling from midnight, and about 80% of law students are enrolled within a few hours of that midnight opening, but the system sometimes can't cope, and there's no IT support available in the middle of the night. And so I think the university is going to open enrolments probably around five, six, seven a.m., but so how early is breakfast? But the messages don't stay up all night on the 31st of October. You might have a frustrating experience if we know with any certainty when the enrolments will open, what time precisely we'll let you know. Okay, so if you are currently in part two, and this year we'll be completing part two, so next year you're a prospective, we'll be a part three student, in the past it has not been possible to enrol in any part three courses until mid-December. It hasn't been possible to enrol from the 1st of November because the university has required us to check that you have in fact completed all your part two requirements, which we can only do when the part two grades are finalised in December, and then move you to the law three group and there after you can enrol. And so that has meant that the students moving from part two to part three have been at a disadvantage in terms of securing their preferred streams and land equity in elective courses and so on. The process has now changed. If you are enroled in courses this year that will complete part two, either you're doing the whole of part two or you're doing the second half of it because you did the first half last year, we will assume that you will pass this year's courses and you can provisionally enrol for parts three from the 1st of November, so you can have equal access to your preferred streams of the compulsory courses and so on. If indeed you fail something and you haven't completed part two, then we will have to intervene and perhaps disenrol you when we discover that sometime in December, but that will affect very few students because the pass rates in part two are very high. If you are currently doing the second half of part two, you're completing part two, sorry, you're doing the first half of part two now, so next year you need to complete part two and you simultaneously want to make a start on part three. All that's been possible in the past has been on the 1st of November to enrol in your outstanding part two courses. So let's say you're doing at the moment law 298 crimes in public, next year you need to do torts and contract. You can enrol in torts and contract and nothing else has been possible until mid January. Again, that has changed and so you will be able to enrol from the 1st of November in the outstanding torts and contract and in elective courses to make a start on part three concurrently with your completion of part two. Is that clear? Anybody not follow that? Well, good. Thank you. You have a sheet about enrolment processes and makes those handouts. So the thing that I have skipped, the first item on the list other than the statement that enrolments open on the 1st of November is in respect of prerequisites for elective courses. Up until now, virtually every elective course has had, as it's prerequisites, the whole of part two. Now, therefore, students who are completing part two and want to start part three haven't been able to do anything for part three because they haven't completed part two unless we gave them a concession and typically between 50 and 60 students would apply for concessions each year. We have refined, we have reduced the prerequisites for the part three elective courses and so now the whole of part two as a prerequisite is atypical, it's unusual. The prerequisites for elective courses will now be a subset of the part two courses and as long as you have passed those or we anticipate that you will pass them this year, then you can go ahead and enrol on elective courses to make a start on part three at the same time. So you have some information there about the prerequisites for elective courses, the revised list. So just to take my own privacy law as an example, its only prerequisites are public law and thoughts. So anybody who this year will have passed public law and thoughts will be eligible to do privacy maybe while they're doing crimes and contract in 2018. And so it is with the other electives as well. All right, I think we've briefly covered everything else that's on that page headed enrolment and electives for 2018. Law 498 and Law 499 caused some confusion so let's just talk briefly about those. Prior to this year, the usual requirement at the end of the degree was that students, and this is reflected in the Law 499 enrolments, would have participated in a moot above Part 2, so either the faculty moot in Part 3 or one of them may be competitive or subject-related moots so long as it is beyond Part 2 and have written five pieces of writing of the certain length, 1500 or more words. So Law 499 has been about breadth of writing and participation in one moot. And students enrol in Law 499 at the end of their degree. Now, that doesn't mean that they can only satisfy the requirements in their last semester. They satisfy them across Part 3 and 4 but the enrolment comes right at the end and that's just our opportunity to gather up the pieces that you've done and make sure all the boxes are ticked. That has been replaced by Law 498 and here the emphasis is not on a number of written assignments but one sustained piece of writing of at least 4,000 words plus a moot beyond Part 2. So now there are only two ticks required in two boxes. One is the moot box and the other is a piece of sustained writing of 4,000 or more words. Completed somewhere in the course of your law studies. Law 498, replacing Law 499 is required of most of you. Law 499 continues to be available only for students who were already in Part 3 before this year and it's being phased out at the end of next year so it's just retained in a transitional way for students who expected to complete 499. Most of you will be enrolling in Law 498. Again, you enrol in it right at the end but you may complete your moot and your 4,000 word or more piece of writing at any stage during Parts 3 and 4. So it's not related, the completion and satisfaction of those requirements isn't linked to the actual enrolment for Law 498. Does that make sense? Nods and no shanks at the head. OK, well, we'll assume that you've understood that. Thank you. The 4,000 or more word piece of sustained writing, single piece of writing, can be satisfied in a number of ways. So again, just to take my own elect, of course, as an example, you will see for Privacy Law that there are two ways in which students can be assessed. Everybody has to complete 1,000 word research, sorry, 1,000 word essay, which contributes 20% to the final grade. For the other 80%, it can be either a two-hour exam or a research paper in lieu of that exam on some privacy topic and that research paper has been deliberately styled or fashioned as a 4,000 word piece so that it satisfies the requirements for Law 498. So by doing a research paper in lieu of exam you're basically killing two birds as it were with the one stone, satisfying the Law 498 requirement avoiding an exam by substituting for it a piece of sustained writing in the elective. And papers in lieu of exam are available in most elective courses. And even where on this chart that you've got, the spreadsheet that you've got which shows the assessment, even though it may not say a paper in lieu of exam, it's always open to negotiation with the teacher of the elective course to be able to substitute a research paper in lieu of the exam that you otherwise would be sitting. So papers in lieu, 4,000 or more words, satisfy the Law 498 requirement. A supervised research paper of 10,000 words, that's a 15-point elective which allows you to write on any area of law whatsoever, so long as somebody on the staff is prepared to supervise it. That clearly will satisfy the requirement for Law 498 of 4,000 or more words in a single piece of writing. Every honest seminar paper of 10,000 words will satisfy that requirement. Every honest dissertation of 15,000 words obviously satisfies the requirement. But for those of you that are not honest students, just remember there is a requirement that somewhere along the line in Part 3 or 4 you need to have written a single piece of at least 4,000 words and a paper in lieu of exam or a supervised research paper may be the way to satisfy that requirement. And the last thing just to mention briefly at this stage, but we'll give you some detail about it later, is what I mentioned at the start, and that is some of our 30 or so master's courses that we offer each year are available also to undergraduate students who are in Part 4. So if you look at the range of master's courses for next year and there is something there that is attractive to you, it may be that it's one of those courses where we welcome undergraduate students and it can be taken in substitution of a one or more undergraduate electives and the master's courses are weighted as either 30 or 15 points. An important thing to note about those master's courses is that they are assessed differently from undergraduate electives. Master's courses are assessed typically by way of research papers only with no exams. So there are negative and positive reasons for thinking about master's courses in your LLB degree. One is that if you're not an exam-oriented student you can do something that has no exam. You can write a research paper on some aspect of the master's course. Or it may be that the subject matter of a master's course is of particular interest to you to include it within your LLB in part 4. And of course all of those master's research papers in lieu of exams are of 4000 and more words so they're going to satisfy the Law 498 requirements as well. So that's just another option for satisfying Law 498. You've got the master's courses, you've got the Honours seminars, the Honours dissertations, papers in lieu of exam or supervised research. More than one way to skin a cat or to satisfy the Law 498 requirements. All right well that was a bit of a bd survey of some of the generic matters. We now come to specific elective courses for next year and as I said we've allowed five minutes for the teachers of these to present to you about their courses and hopefully that will include details of how the courses will be assessed next year. But if we hit a low, not a low patch, a dead patch in the middle of all this because we might get ahead of schedule then we can revert to some of those generic things if you wish. I'm teaching Woman in the Law next year. Law General 422, so this here to say a few words about that. What we basically do in Woman in the Law is we go through the different bodies of feminist legal theory all of which have contributed to our understanding about how the law supports or potentially addresses aspects of gender inequality. And we start with Liberal feminism which is the reason why I'm standing here today and why some of you in the room are enrolled in a law degree. For those of you who don't realise, Woman in the Law actually entering the legal profession did so relatively recently even though we had the first female graduate many years ago in 1970 when our Chief Justice graduated. She graduated in a class in which there are only four women. She struggled to get a job when she actually went on the bench to practice the kind of law she aspired to practice realising that she could never be briefed in the kinds of files that she aspired to have. So we look at Liberal feminism, we look at radical feminism, cultural feminism, critical race or intersectional feminism and post-modern feminism and these different bodies of theory look at well why if Woman have been entering the Law School is an equal or even greater numbers to men why are they not progressed in the Law? Why are they still only a tiny fraction of those holding positions of power? Can we actually have any political agenda organised around the concept of women when women have such other diverse intersections and tower attributes that are associated with the gender impregnated and non-human concepts like the Law? We intersperse our look at theory with some practical issues so why are some of the difficulties in combining a career in law with motherhood, issues of sexual violence against women, issues of care and contact, disputes in the context of family law, the criminalisation of parental favours to protect their kids family violence and basically what we're trying to do is see how theory in the lens you put on a social phenomenon actually affects your analysis and your outcomes in relation to that phenomenon. Trying to make the theory kind of real. We have great guest lecturers in this course and documentaries I'm not sure who will have this year yet but last year we for example have Louise Nicholas who will be familiar to you as the complainant in relations multiple sexual violence charges against police officers in the past who's now a victims advocate. Andra Alofi Vai and Laverne King who set up a firm based on tikanga Māori only employed Māori and Pacifica women who couldn't get jobs elsewhere and set up their own creche so they could combine motherhood with a career in law which is always a challenge for women and many other fantastic guest lecturers. So assessment is by way of three journal entries of a thousand words each two are worth 30% of the final grade and they're really inspired to encourage you to read the readings in relation to the area of theory and critically reflect on them including relate them to your own life. And finally a 4000 word opinion on a topic of your choice which is worth 70% of the course. So just a brief reflection on why you might like to take this course it has had very positive feedback from students so that's always a good sign it's one of the few courses I have personally taught that students have told me they've found actually life changing because many young women of this generation actually haven't been exposed to feminism like some of us older women so actually just being exposed to these ideas is pretty exciting and many of them still have relevance for our lives and I think also taking a course that's critical around theory really assists if you're planning on doing great lawyering so I draw a distinction between good lawyering where you apply the law to try and get the best possible outcome for your client and great lawyering which actually involves pushing the legal envelope so that might mean creating a listening for your client that doesn't currently exist amongst a group of people that don't have life experiences that naturally lend themselves to understanding your client's life circumstances it might mean persuading judges to be brave in overturning legal orthodoxy to achieve more just outcomes in other words it requires critical reasoning and a sophisticated understanding of concepts like equality which of course we are central to most of the theory in this course why you should not do this course do not take this course because it is an easy option post-modern feminist theory is super exciting but it's absolutely not easy and don't take this course because you have a timetable clash although I will say that one of my favourite students ever and woman in the law was someone who took it because he had a timetable clash so at the beginning of the course I'd gone around and asked everyone why are you enrolled in this course and he said he was hoping to be invisible and silent and he probably survived the course because he had bought a soccer franchise and it was the only elective course that didn't clash with his franchise and I laughed hysterically thinking gosh he's witty and then realised he was deadly earnest so I went up to him and I said why don't you take a private of course a class later why don't you take a supervised research paper for a lot less work and you could do it on soccer franchising or something you're really interested in and he said he was finding the course he'd noticed he was a bit sexist and he was finding the course quite interesting anyway and he was one of those very open minded people who actually explored things that he was reactionary to and he ended up transforming a lot of his thinking and being really quite excited and engaged by the course so maybe you should take the course if you have a timetable clash OK that's all I've got to say unless anyone's got a quick question if you do or you come up with one later on feel free to email me thank you good afternoon I'm going to teach maritime law next year my name is Matthew Flynn I'm currently practising as a maritime lawyer in Auckland and I've been doing that for far too long I've been doing it for 28 years and it's been fascinating I've been all around the world as a maritime lawyer I've been on ships in Iceland and Brazil and Portugal and I've been in boardrooms in Germany, Greek ship owners Hong Kong, Singapore it's a really very international subject there's a huge amount of practical application both domestically and internationally it's always changing and we need young lawyers to be coming through with a good understanding of how that works both domestically and globally I'll just give you a very quick I thought I'd show you some pictures there's a lot of good stories with shipping Lloyd's law reports which is a very substantial law reports is full of shipping maritime law cases for many many years the insurance industry, the Greek ship owners have funded significant litigation particularly involving contract law if you're really interested in contract law this is a substantial way to get your head around and get into some really substantial contract contractual law issues I'll just see if I can move that forward just move that forward here we are just to give you a quick definition maritime law is a functional term used for describing a whole range of laws and other legal sources that govern the legal framework relating to ships and their operation that includes a variety of legal systems ranging from international law to regional and national laws and down to local rules it covers issues of public concerns it'll be familiar with some of the huge environmental issues that have arisen out of major pollution incidences from ships safety, security piracies become a really interesting issue for us cyber security is now something that I'm dealing with a lot environmental protection as well as civil law matters contracts of carriage liability and compensation for damage salvage and rules relating to marine risks and insurance to name by the few so I'm going to use this course to teach a lot of fundamental legal principles particularly on contract law using shipping as a framework so you'll get a really practical overview on how you stand up and get into court get in front of clients and advise them particularly contract here's some pictures just to give you a flavour of maritime law beautiful example of the rights of two vessels in the Auckland harbour many years ago somebody on a surfboard and an American warship our job is to work out what's going on here from a legal perspective who's got the rights who's got the obligations does that warship have to stop for somebody on a surfboard what happens if there's damage what happens if the ship stops can't move these are the kind of things we'll be looking at here's a man in the western Sahara I'm dealing with this right now he's a member of the peoples front in the western Sahara so far not registered as a UN country they claim to own all the phosphate in Morocco in the western Sahara it's the best phosphate in the world he along with his group claim ownership of it the Moroccan government thinks otherwise the Moroccan government sells a whole ship load of that product to New Zealand and the ship arrives in South Africa and legal proceedings are started that stopped that ship from moving anywhere else in the world that ship is arrested the only thing you can arrest other than a person is a ship that happens by a fantastically developed historical process which allows maritime lawyers to do that you stop a ship, take the cargo off and there's a substantial that cargo is worth a fortune there's all sorts of interesting legal issues that we're dealing with on that ship runs aground on the southern coast of England this is happening all the time you'll see this happening in Auckland all the containers fall in the water they go on the shore and look what happens people from Cornwall decide that they're entitled to the contents of the containers particularly wine they claim, I'm not joking, they claimed historical Cornish rights of collecting what comes ashore on the beach completely wrong, the collector of customs in the UK had a completely different idea the same things apply here fashion in New Zealand they've been watching Poldark this is Maritanga the issue is to whether those people are lawfully taking that cargo away on the beach and can help themselves to it is a really interesting area of maritime law some Australian scientists were down in Antarctica a couple of years ago I was involved in this case they decided that they had to get back to the ship the captain of the ship says get back, there's some ice coming in I need you back quickly on the ship some Australian scientists go well I'm not in such a hurry what's the problem they take their time to get back on the ship what happens, the ship gets stuck in the ice big issue then for me to advise on what happens next the cost of getting those people off the ship as opposed to leaving them there for a few weeks and I was all for leaving Australian scientists as long as you need to as opposed to incurring millions to get them helicoptered off out of the cold raises all sorts of interesting issues contractual law issues that we're involved in this is the Rena you'll all be familiar with that the master of that ship was totally at fault for putting that ship on the reef he paid nothing for any of the damage to the cargo so how can that be you think about some of the contractual things you're thinking about sailing purchase this is quite different but it's absolutely happening all the time and there's a lot of maritime law issues just in that photograph alone this could happen in the Auckland harbour big ship coming in and some people just out there enjoying themselves I've dealt with those places you look at what's going on here who's got rights away who's responsible for damage what happens if the ship gets held up for two days while they try and collect the boat off it there's some very interesting liability issues and compensation issues Merse the other day the biggest carrier in the world had a cyber attack which stopped their entire logistics systems they didn't know what was in any of those containers for two days all over the world delays to ships here's the future we're looking currently now at unmanned ships to liability regime we're going to talk about all these issues in my last favourite shot somebody canoes capsized got on board a submarine there's some lovely issues in there we're going to do the course by having two lectures a week in the evening at five o'clock because I'm working five o'clock in the evening eight o'clock on Friday morning so Tuesday five o'clock Friday morning at eight o'clock we're going to do a course assessment by running a couple of scenarios which I'm going to get you all to go and research and write back about I'm going to choose about three different potential potential problems go and research and hand that back and that's going to be twenty per cent of the course towards the end of the course we're going to start talking about major casualty pulling it all together and the exam is going to be focused on sitting down and looking at an actual real life scenario and analysing it for yourself and working out what you've been taught this is some of the advice you might give your clients so that's maratai law well now here is an entirely newer letter for the first time in 2018 thank you, so my name is Stephen Price and I'm the head of the construction division at Minterallison here in Auckland and I'm picking up about 30 odd construction lawyers which gives a certain amount of idea of just what is happening at the moment in terms of both the construction law practice, what's going on in terms of construction and where we think it's going to be going in the future I'm really excited to be offering and presenting the course next year it's astounded me that it's taken this many years with respect for the universities to pick up on it particularly when there have been for some years now substantial specialised practices around the country and what we are seeing nowadays are that firms are realising more and more how important the practice of construction law is going to be so what is construction law and I'd like to think about it without unfortunately the same pretty pictures as if you think about if you're going to build a building what happens and it's quite a long life cycle you've got to get planning underway, you've got to get the contracts, the procurement your statutory requirements all set up you've actually then got to build something and get all of the specialist people to be able to build that along the way at the end you've got to make sure that it's in time how it's going for budget how it's going in terms of quality your local council requirements all signed off and then your reconciliation at the end what we call project close off and invariably you then depend upon the project anything up to the next 15 years of your life spent in litigation I think it's crossed that's where I come in so as you can see from there they have quite a wide range of issues they are primarily contractual and primarily statutory in the first half of that there's a lot of government procurement rules you need to understand a lot of governance issues that come up and then at the later half or what my colleagues unkindly call the back end part of the practice you end up having very complicated technical both legal and terms of expert concepts litigation and I often say to people if you really want to become a litigation lawyer do construction law for a while I've got a number of disputes partners at work I spend more time in court whether it's a high court court of appeal or a supreme court than any of them because of the nature of the projects the types of legal matters that we'll be having to deal with are going to obviously not just be general contract law but really digging into what we call the trinity of time cost and quality and many people have talked about the idea of good cheap fast pick any two and the practice of construction law is actually trying to pick all three trying to find a way that the legal risks protections and frameworks are in place so that time is controlled cost is controlled and quality is controlled and every single one of those matters we can dig into whether it's contractual whether it's going to be statutory whether it's going to be human into areas and taught the important area that I see for New Zealand at the moment is that we know that this demand is only going to increase so there is going to be an increased demand for construction lawyers over the next easily, next 10, 20 years but what is wonderful about construction law is that the concepts that we practice in New Zealand whether it's in relation to the litigation or the procurement or the advice any of those concepts are essentially the same whether you go to England, America Australia, the Middle East and so it's a very international practice and that means our practice and the practice of construction law has the international relevance that also has the international opportunity as unfortunately I see all too many of my staff now working overseas as far as the course is concerned it's intended to be two lectures a week two hour and one hour both in the late afternoon because I too have to work I'm going to be assisted by a couple of my colleagues I'm going to have Taylor who's over here with me assisting one of my fellow partners Janine who also has a lot of involvement in the disputes part of it but we're going to be assisted by another of my partners Sarah Sinclair who's concerned to be New Zealand's top energy and procurement construction lawyer and so she'll be able to talk to the government aspects, procurement aspects involved in those the assessment is going to be a 1500 words written assessment and also an open book exam I was tempted to make it a lengthy research paper but my view is that the important part of construction law at the moment is going to be that the knowledge, the understanding and the practical ability to do something on the fly rather than have to research because that's where from a practice perspective the real demand is I've tried to keep that within five minutes but I'm very happy to take any questions if I've missed out anything that people want to know about So just to add, construction law will be in the second semester and the prerequisites will be a contract and tour Very good Thank you My name is Hannah Wilbur if you haven't met me yet and hopefully some of you next year So administrative law is the course that I will be the director of course that I will be teaching and it's not new but it will be different next year from this year because this year two of my colleagues supported so they ran quite a difference Of course if you talk to past administrative law students last year's version is a better guide to what you'll find next year so I taught at class in 2016 and I'll be teaching again next year and obviously I was developed and will be similar to last time I taught it So what's administrative law about and you will have come across an introduction to that in public law so it's a part of public law It is the law that governs decision making by public authorities and public entities So for example I go into the community law centre once a month to run a clinic there on the furniture floor and the kinds of clients that come there the issues that come up pretty much all of the time the issues that deal with to do with wins decision making ACC decision making and has a New Zealand decision making So that's an example of the kind of entity that we deal with Immigration would be another example but they have a separate specialist clinic on that so I don't tend to deal with that but that's also the law that governs immigration decision making is very much part of the administrative law as resource management construction law where it comes into building consent that kind of thing So it ranges right from very much individual decision making that affects people's lives and important personal interests to commercial interests so commerce commission decision making for example or construction consenting for for large projects So it's relevant and the law when we talk about the law that governs this kind of decision making there are essentially four aspects to consider in that context and this course focuses on three of them the first aspect that this course does and focus on is the substantive set of rules in each area so the rules that govern immigration permits so the rules that govern welfare benefits or eligibility for social housing or competition rules that commerce commission applies right so if you want to study the substance of those rules in detail you'll be going to these specialist courses like immigration and more etc but in order for those rules to operate in those contexts there's also a generous set of principles that govern decision making by public authorities such as fair procedure adherence to the law not taking a kind of irrelevant considerations not disappointing the digital expectations etc so that's the second aspect of the law that governs decision making by public authorities is the set of general principles that governs all of those kinds of decisions and that's the first thing that we do study in this course and the remaining two items are sort of more remedial or process oriented so the next element and the next aspect is what is the role of courts in supervising this kind of decision making so one of the main remedial avenues is traditional review and if there are huge amount of energy spent on deciding just exactly to what extent judges are justified and it's a problem for judges to substitute their decisions for those of the decision maker who's authorized by statute so that's the aspect, the second that's done here in the course and the final one is I see traditional review is one avenue of if we can challenge decisions it is really only the very last it's really extensive etc and the second decision making by public authorities is the design and understanding of other avenues that are available for challenging decisions so what sort of avenues of recourse do we want and what avenues of recourse exist in terms of internally applying for review in terms of any specialist review all of those are the kinds of if you're unhappy with an agency decision or an innovation decision you're much, much, much more likely to be able to go to that kind of thing than to the High Court for traditional review and that's what we also look at now so the final thing I want to say about Administrative Law as a subject then is that it really is the sort of foundational subject of public law if you want to at all practice in public law you'll find Administrative Law everywhere where the primary avenue for protecting human rights in New Zealand is Administrative Law proceedings if you want to protect international obligations again within the domestic system the primary avenues is the Administrative Law so at the airport I would commend to you if you want to be a public lawyer to see that for years as you foundation the course so that's enough about Administrative Law as a subject finally on the course details I don't remember off the top of my head was the timetable but I'm sure you cannot get up to yourself four hours a week and will be two times two hours and most probably not a day o'clock in the morning as I had it last time so two hours twice a week and the assessment I have to tell you I haven't decided yet I only found out last week that I actually do get to teach the course again until then I was telling someone else was going to teach it so I haven't decided yet but I can tell you there will definitely be an assignment which I suppose is actually compulsory now in the law school and almost certainly I would follow my usual practice of having a final exam as a take on exam which sounds scary to some people but actually gives you much better opportunity to put your list forward which is why I did I think that's all that I wanted to say any questions I hope to see some of you next year and I had just one thing to add about that course and that is that if you look at the list of prerequisites on the sheet administrative law appears to have no prerequisites whereas in fact the prerequisites are public law, torts and contract of the part 2 courses does not need to have been passed before enrolling for Adam and Michael I'm supposed to hear you talk about tax but what I did before I did that I think he's put in a plug for Matthew Flynn's maritime of course on account of Matthew it must be someone that I've known for a long time and he's a terrific chap and he is also a fantastic lawyer and up until now I have been the best sailor in the law school but sadly I have de-tied him by only the second best sailor in the law school so that's Matthew's maritime law course tax is there are several reasons you might want to take a tax course one is if you might want to be a tax specialist specialised in tax or you can do that in the private sector working for big law firm or big accounting firm or the internet revenue but you also might want to do in any kind of commercial or any kind of property law you basically need to know how the tax system works you need to know if your client is selling a property in particular if your client is selling a property are they obliged to pay income tax on the profit because sometimes they are sometimes they're not and are they required to pay GST because sometimes they are and sometimes they're not there are two tax courses there's the basic tax course which happens in the first semester and again in the second semester if you want to be a tax specialist then obviously you should do both of those and probably if you want to be a specialist commercial lawyer you should also do both of them it's fairly specialised field tax but it is also something that is fundamental to the operation of the constitution and the political system and the economy so for example at some point at some point this afternoon theoretically we might get to find out who the government is and the way that will work is that there will probably be what is called a confidence and supply agreement which is something you've probably heard of and possibly know what it is but in case you don't what supply means is supply of money because it might be the case that Parliament can't enact any legislation and maybe if Parliament can't enact any legislation they'll act 100% each every year and if they can't enact any more maybe we've got enough and that wouldn't have to do any harm however if the government can't spend any money then we have some kind of a constitutional crisis happening and the government cannot spend money unless it has a law authorising it to do that and that is where Winston comes in because obviously the government cannot pass a law authorising expenditure of money unless Winston agrees and that is basically the leverage that he's got over the political system at the moment so this constitutional importance of tax law is a that's the current example of it but it's something that is fundamental ever since pretty much Magna Cata which I guess you might have learned about is the point that Magna Cata is that the king cannot require people to pay taxes the crown cannot require anybody to pay tax unless there is a law requiring the payment of tax that's what Magna Cata is about what about the the the way it works is whoever gets the best marks typically gets a job at one of the big law firms who sort of next one down gets a job in that revenue then what happens is whoever got the job at Chapman Trip emigrates and goes and gets a job in London and everybody moves up one and less possibly by the time you're working in the revenue department you might have discovered you like going home at 5 o'clock and the sad truth is that you've got the job at Russell McVay the chance of going home at 5 o'clock is sadly fairly slim the basic tax force comes with a whole of the tax system with a little bit of theory of how a tax system can tax and GST in the end the advanced tax course has got three parts the first part is more of the theory and policy of how a tax system ought to work questions like for example whether we ought to have a capital gains tax the second part is all about corporate tax which is kind of a nitty-gritty bit to bit and is the bit that most employers want you to know about and the third part is international tax which is kind of a growth field because whatever you've got cross-order trade or investment of any kind partly that presents the problem of maybe it's going to be subject to tax in two different countries but also maybe it presents an opportunity because maybe you can organise it so you don't have to pay any tax in either country so let's say it's a growth area we've come along with that that's very well I've got to say anybody have got any questions? Hi everyone I'm going to be teaching a course on indigenous peoples and international law this summer it comes from the 12th of January to the 9th of February it's taught on a Monday, Wednesday, Friday once and for and it's a 15 point course and the aim of this course is to introduce students to international law especially human rights law relevant to indigenous peoples so if you've got a curiosity about indigenous peoples and the law about international law or human rights law then it could be of interest to you and I think that an examination of the international law regarding indigenous peoples is relevant for us in many ways so it's got some scholarly value so when we look at indigenous peoples relationship with international law and its institutions it actually helps to shift some light on some interesting shifts that have been going on in the international legal system including the growth or proliferation of law and law making institutions and also the growing participation of non-state actors in those institutions it's also really timely, there's been a lot of activity going on at the UN in relation to indigenous peoples in the last two decades and that's been crowned by the adoption in 2007 of the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples which provides really clear articulation of indigenous peoples rights norms there's also been a bunch of institutions that have been established within the UN that's focused exclusively on indigenous peoples we've got for example the permanent forum on indigenous issues, the expert mechanism on the rights of indigenous peoples and the special record for the rights of indigenous peoples and in addition to that we have a whole bunch of jurisprudence coming out of the human rights bodies that are monitoring the major UN human rights conventions so those bodies are also commenting on indigenous peoples and then some specialised international agencies such as the World Bank Group and the World Intellectual Property Office are also focusing attention on indigenous stuff so there's quite, this captures quite a lot of different subjects in that space, there's also a lot of practical value, so we know that there are around 370 million indigenous peoples around the world reflecting about 5,000 different collectives 5,000 different peoples and in all of these countries unfortunately indigenous peoples tend to be over-exempted in negative socio-economic statistics and also marginalised in terms of their positions of power so understanding international law relative to indigenous peoples can be one more tool in that tool belt for trying to advocate for fair recognition of indigenous peoples' rights so the course is going to focus on a whole bunch of different topics and they include who are indigenous peoples we're going to explore this declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples we'll look at some of the justifications for indigenous peoples' rights we'll look at these UN institutions and indigenous peoples we'll examine some of the monitoring of states that's gone on by the UN and we're going to focus on New Zealand and Pacific states and we're also going to talk about the domestic relevance of international law regarding indigenous peoples so what does it mean when we bring it back to countries like New Zealand and elsewhere we're also going to mention there's some important jurisprudence in the Inter-American Court and Commission on Human Rights so we'll look a little bit at some of those bodies as well and we're going to focus on some really key rights including indigenous peoples' rights to their lands, territories and natural resources and the right measures to have their free prior form can be obtained before decisions are made regarding things affecting them so this course is actually run in collaboration with the University and the staff specific in Vanuatu so the course is going to be taught half in Auckland and half over there but unfortunately you guys don't get to come to Vanuatu, what it means is that for one half of the course I'll be in Auckland teaching it here with a video link going back to USP in Vanuatu and then for the other half it'll be the reverse so you'll have a video link and I'll be in Vanuatu but it's a fairly exciting opportunity to have these students from the Pacific contributing to these discussions that we're having in this important rights space so it's really exciting to be there for us. There are three pieces of assessment for this course so there's a group presentation on a topic that's covered in class basically it means when you start the course you will get assigned into a group and your group will be leaving a class discussion on the set readings for a particular lecture during the course and that'll be worth 20% there'll be a 1,500 word reflective essay reflecting on the content that we've covered in course and again that's 20% and then there'll be a 60% exam at the end of it so that's all that I just said it'll be really fantastic to see some of you in the course and if you've got any questions you're welcome to ask me now or if you spot me around to ask later. Okay so personal property why would you take it? Because it deals with firstly we start off the boundary to real and personal property and what is personal property? Probably have different views well it's anything other than land so we distinguish between land and personal property we may think that's not hugely relevant or significant but believe it or not we will find for example somebody owns a factory they have heavy duty equipment question who owns it the person who owns the equipment or the person who owns the factory we touch on interests in personal property most of the course deals with tangible personal property in other words anything pretty much not tied down this what I hope is personal property we look at possession we seem a simple concept that can get difficult we also consider different kinds of possession and then we move on to the personal property securities act only about one and a half classes but the purpose of that is just to make you aware of a very important piece of legislation it affects as the title tells you security of personal property we move on then to the finders cases in other words what if somebody leaves property let's say I leave my watch in somebody else's field well I own it I have the primary claim but what if I disappear what if there is now a contest between the occupant of the land and somebody who has to be walking across it a lot of the course will then turn to bail now bailment is a very simple arrangement it's nothing more than my tangible personal property I give it to you you are now my bailee so calm and yet concept is not clearly understood and we will look at what are the consequences of another person holding goods that belong to somebody who has a superior claim and it has not just personal implications but also commercial as well you can play out these various concepts in very profound commercial context like for example the character goods by scene ok that then is the entirety of the course we have a 30% case note and then the balance 70% is assessed by an exam the case note is fairly new but what I'll do is I'll give you a case you will have a number of weeks to review it and then submit a case note of considerable gravity and the challenge is not to write something long but be constrained by I haven't quite decided what would be about a thousand words what you'll be screening for is more words and the answers you won't get more words so it will challenge you to approach in a very concise logical and targeted way and it will give you a very useful skill in terms of analysing cases ok any questions or comments yep no ok thank you to all for love everyone my name is Tullan Asafo and I'm going to be co-teaching South Pacific Legal Studies with Helena Cowell essentially this paper is all about producing a research paper because what me and Helena are really passionate about is building scholarship on South Pacific legal issues because there's simply not enough like one article published every year so we want to try to generate some critical thoughts about the South Pacific and our unique constitutional issues so basically for first semester we'll be looking at the unique historical, social and economic context that islands in the South Pacific exist in basically looking at how colonisation imposed this whole unique new political and legal system onto us unique issues that resulted from that and then in semester 2 we'll be looking at particular current issues in our constitution specifically the conflict between human rights and constitutional values such as in customary law in the different Pacific islands we'll be looking specifically at feminism in the Pacific and jurisprudence around that how Pacific women and the intersectionality between that in terms of land law and sexual assault cases as well we'll also be looking at dispute resolution in the South Pacific we have a very unique way of handling our disputes and how that compares to traditional western systems we'll also be addressing issues such as tensions and legal pluralism and to resolve the conflict between your eccentric points of views and perspectives and our collectivist way in the Pacific in terms of our in terms of our course assessment it's all going to be designed around that research paper so first we'll be having research proposal of a thousand words with 10% the reason why we put this forward is because we wanted students to start thinking about their research topics as early as possible rather than towards the end of the semester when they are due so making sure that you consult with me and Helena about the topics and get that sorted and then we're going to be doing a presentation as well which will be sorry we have the research proposal which will be worth 10% the research essay worth 75% so a large chunk will be 25,000 words and then there will be at the end of the semester the opportunity for students to present their research in front of the class and receive questions and commentary from their peers are there any questions anyone has about South Pacific legal studies Hi everyone my name is Anna and I'm taking refugee law over the summer as Stephen said beginning in early January 9th of January it is totally worth giving up your summer holiday to come and do refugee law I think one of the biggest issues that we face globally at the moment is the refugee crisis and it's something that's not going away anytime soon I think in all our lifetimes it's going to be one of the really big things that it's an international community we need to think about and tackle there are currently 65 million people who are displaced from their homes for a whole range of reasons from war to climate change famine, political persecution religious persecution the list goes on and on and on what we do in refugee law is look at the system the international community has created to try and help at least some of those 65 million people so we're going to look at the development of the refugee system that has been developed since the 1950s and then we're going to look very specifically as we've had a bit of time looking at exactly who is a refugee and what the legal definition of a refugee is we'll look at who's excluded from it we'll talk a bit about the process of actually bringing a refugee case and the difficulties of proving your case as a refugee and how the system sort of deals with that kind of thing and then we'll move it on to look at some policy issues around a range of different topics to do that are connected to refugee law we'll look at detention issues we'll also look at the extent to which the refugee system fails to sort of accommodate many of the people who have been displaced and some of the limitations of the system it's going to be a great course I will be lecturing part of it but there's also a lot of room for discussion and I'm very keen to get everyone who's taking the course involved in a range of different exercises I also try and bring in a range of different guest lecturers who are working in the refugee field some of them work here in New Zealand in refugee law and the judges or lawyers here others have experienced working in refugee law overseas there's also for those of you who take the course every year I run an internship programme with the refugee court here in New Zealand and the only people who are eligible for the internship programme are people who have actually taken this course so something else to keep in mind if you're interested in it it takes place over four weeks in January it'll be taking place three days of every week and three hours every day so basically Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays will have three hours a day the assessment will be a test after the first two weeks and it will cover the first two weeks of material and then there'll be an exam at the end to cover the rest of the material My name's John Land I'm a barrister at Bankside Chambers and I've been contracted for company law so I've been in legal practice for 31 years 26 years in a firm called Kensington Swarm 20 years as a partner and then five years at Bankside Chambers and company law is a really important subject if you want to work at a law firm or become a barrister because it affects so much of what we do in practice and I certainly know from having looked at or been involved in recruitment rounds back at Kensington Swarm that you sort of you have to have done commercial law company law to get to the next stage to the interview stage it's sort of like Stephen said it's not compulsory but it sort of is compulsory to work in private practice in most firms anyway so it's really important from that point of view assessment 15% on a 1500 word assignment should be a problem question probably a company contracting problem question and then the rest is an exam, 85% on an exam and this style of this has changed a little bit if you're looking at past exams online I presume it's available for you to do that you might see that normally there's been four problem questions and you're thinking oh my gosh four hard problem questions over three hours that sounds pretty grueling well I've changed that from this semester on it's now three questions over three hours and more of a true test of your analytical ability in terms of the teaching style what I've tended to do with that is my power points are limited to visual descriptions of cases and a few quotes which we then talk to so let me just give you an example sort of example of a sort of a case where we show the relationship between the parties and then we talk through what happened in this case what legal issues arise under the case so that's a sort of a standard slide showing the relationship between the parties sometimes I'll add to that with a bit of a chronology but what you're not going to get is a whole lot of detailed words which are going to just make it hard to sort of think about the cases that we're talking about so that's an example of a chronology but that's fairly unusual it's usually just the first sort of slide I showed you and then the other thing that we do in the course is at the end of each section of the course we do some practice questions so you've just learnt about say directives duties and you've learnt about cases like the case that was on that previous slide so then let's cement that by looking at a sort of a sample question the same sort of question that you might get in an exam and we'll go through that together we'll work through that together so we do that at the end of each part of the course and then at the end of the course in the last two classes the last two classes are completely reviewed prior to 85% exams a bit daunting right so we have two classes where we go through mock exam questions which I prepare and we work through those together so you get a bit of practice at spotting issues analysing the issues and talking about how you would then write an exam question so that's the sort of approach that I take to the course so any questions on the approach to the course why you should or shouldn't do company law and you definitely want to do commercial law too you'll hear about that in a minute Good so I'm here to again for those of you who don't know me I teach commercial law elective here and so basically we cover four statutes in this course and we cover them in a fair amount of depth the first one is a part of the new commercial law act where we deal with the regime of selling goods and where we learn how you transfer property in goods for example so if you where to go to say whatever shop comes into your mind nothing works for me at the moment and you buy a new thing say a new laptop at what point you actually become the owner of that what if things go wrong what are your rights what can you do what redress do you have and then we contrast that with the specific regimes that would apply to consumer goods that are in the consumer guarantees act and have a brief look at services as well if time permits and we look at the effect trading act as well the main disciplines of that because we can't cover everything in that I think Rob covers some of that too doesn't he and then the second part of the semester with the PPSA the Personal Property Securities Act where we look at how you can use property and goods as a way of securing other obligations and how you do that we look at when you have one of those interests we look at when it becomes enforceable what you need to do to protect your situation and then we look at what happens when everything really goes to custard and there are multiple creditors who all want to have that same particular good how do we divide the pie so a lot of that second part of the course is divided to that particular question so a variety of topics that all come under the wide banner of commercial law and things that you might encounter on the regular basis or sometimes maybe not so regular when you go into commercial practice of course assessment I haven't fully decided yet because I have experimented this year with reading quizzes which are quizzes that the students have to do before class on Canvas and really isn't extra work they just need to do the cases which of course they are all reading before class aren't you and so I've had five of those this year of which I've students or best three scores counter towards 15% of the final mark I am waiting for the current set evaluation to close to see how students feel about us, I quite like them and I'm thinking I might extend that next year so that maybe there'll be four of them or five of them that will count to 20% of the grade but more options so almost a reading quiz for every class and you choose a certain number of those to go for your final grade and the rest would be an exam most likely a three hour exam because I've found it quite difficult this year to set appropriate questions for just a two hour exam but assignment is still to be determined whether there is a written assessment to the mix as I did this year but probably not Thank you Stephen so you really know to doing this it sort of felt like a bit of a show on a towel so when you're going to talk about trademarks you've got to bring along trademarks and I like John's slide actually because I'm a bit of a trademark geek so when I saw John's slide I thought that's a nice trademark put a towel on this god damn and when I was talking to you about that I was just thinking isn't the Apple logo but anyway this is a course, a 10-pointer course trademark law for those who know something already about intellectual property so if you know something about intellectual property and you've done all something intellectual property course and you want to find out more about why COPE has a shape trademark and how it had difficulty enforcing this shape trademark against FES and this is the course for you so it's a course where we will build on foundational knowledge of intellectual property and trademarks and we will deep dive into some of the curly issues that face New Zealand's trademark law we'll also look comparatively at other jurisdictions who confront similar issues the course will be 2 hours of interest per week I think they are Wednesdays in politics the assessment will be an exam but also a problem type question which will be really a realistic type problem that you would face if you had to advise somebody about trademark legal issue and that'll be 1200 words what they're about why should you worry about trademarks well of all the intellectual property rights New Zealand businesses use trademarks most of all in the most used instrument in why New Zealand businesses so if you're interested in company law and commercial law chances are you're going to come across trademark issues be it trademark licensing be it issues with the sale of goods trademarks so really useful general skill to know a bit about trademarks but also it could be useful if you went down the track of worrying about being an attorney and dealing with trademarks as part of your day to day practice but that's it for me trademarks 10 points it's in the first semester next year and it's Wednesdays and Fridays so is intellectual property a trademark it is, yes any other questions my name is Nikki Chamberlain this is my first year lecturing actually at the University of Auckland so next year will be my second year and as Stephen has kindly said I will be involved in two electives next year so the first one I wanted to talk to you about I was going to start with a question which is what do married at first sight Hugh Hefner's death and poor old Crystal being left out in the cold not getting anything not inheriting anything after he died and Brangelina having common they all have to do with family property and so essentially the course of family property is going to be second semester it is 15 points we will be covering a number of really important topics we will be covering relationship property what is relationship property what happens when you separate and you do not have a prenuptial agreement what happens when you separate and you do have a prenuptial agreement can that be challenged what happens if all of your assets are in a family trust and you are only a discretionary beneficiary can you attack that family trust to get money out of it what happens when somebody passes away leaves a will can you challenge the will or are you stuck with the fact that you have been left out of it what happens if you know somebody dies and they do not leave a will how do you know if you are entitled to anything from their estate these are all things that are covered by family property I personally love the subject of family property because it is not only relevant to legal practice but it is very much relevant to all of our lives I can guarantee when you go out into practice you will most often be asked family law questions out at parties oh you know I am getting married do I need to sign a prenuptial agreement oh how do I handle that awkward or oh my relationship is going pear shaped what does this mean so it is a really fun class it is taught at 8am I am not a morning person however after doing a semester of it I have come to love the 8am slot which I am sure you all will too it is recorded as far as assessments go 25% essay and a 2 hour open book exam which is 75% of the mark so that is how it will be assessed any questions on family property before I hop on to privacy law no good excellent so privacy law Steven Pink and I are going to co-teach privacy law really looking forward to it it is going to be a 10 point paper first semester it is going to be taught in a 2 hour block once a week which is very manageable bite sized for you to all digest privacy law is a really exciting area the reason privacy law is an exciting area is because it is constantly changing with technology privacy is becoming a really big issue think about facebook all of your information which is on facebook is it private is it not what if you have a private profile think about Edward Snowden he had private information all of a sudden he starts leaking that private information what does that mean what about privacy and employment your employer what about your health care records what about broadcasting standards authority what are the competing interests so how the course is going to be structured Steven is going to lecture you for 6 weeks he is going to be talking to you about concepts and definitions of privacy competing interests as they relate to privacy and he is also going to talk to you about common law development of privacy because as you probably all know from torts and your stage 1 class UK Australia, New Zealand, Canada who am I left out Australia, yep all have different laws relating to privacy just to make it really complex so we are going to talk about all the different approaches to those and then I will come in for the second 6 weeks and I will be talking about the privacy act what it covers, what you need to know and then we will be talking about specific case studies so I will be going through stuff like broadcasting standards authority what are the media have to do when they are reporting on things are there privacy requirements that have to be met I will be talking about privacy and employment law privacy with your health care records and I will also be doing a really cool topic I am looking forward to called the right to be forgotten it is this new interest in privacy so given technology if you were to pass away or have a family member they are going to leave an electronic footprint on Facebook for example what happens if you want to be forgotten think about the Tucker case criminal conviction the right to be forgotten who is to say with a clean slate act that after a certain period of time that criminal record should be forgotten but of course with media now all you have to do is a quick google search and that is going to be stuck with them forever so we are going to be talking about all of those interesting things what is really great about this course if I haven't already sold it to you despite the fact that Steven and I are teaching it is the assessments so we are going to have a 1000 word 20% essay but the cool thing with this is there are three different topics do at three different times in the semester you get to choose amazing the other really exciting thing about this class is that 80% is an option an option as well you can either do a two hour open book exam or a pile paper and loo of exam which is 4000 words and you can choose the topic of your choice to be approved by us and that is neat too because you are kind of killing two birds with one stone you have to do an extended piece of writing of 4000 words for law 499 498 sorry law 498 you are required for your degree in the 4000 words if you choose to do that in our class not only will that be your final assessment but as I said you are killing two birds with one stone because you tick that 498 box and you get to really delve into an area of privacy that you are interested in good afternoon everyone to those who don't know me I am Dr Henry Khan course director of family law family law covers aspects to do with parenting and the solution of marriage it covers all the non-binational aspects of family law as Nicky alluded family property of course covers all the related property material so why should you do family law for two reasons one is for professional reasons or personal reasons family law is a major area of practice if you end up working in a suburban firm or even working for a tick firm or a large firm in the city invariably you will encounter family law and it is a bread and butter subject that you really should be aware of in regards to the second point personal reasons unfortunately it covers aspects and the solution of relationships are ubiquitous in society so if you are ever at parties or talking to your friends they find out that you are a lawyer they won't ask you all the false advice I've been asked a few times anyway in terms of the content matter top topics that will cover include marriage and divorce family justice system alternative dispute resolution in family law child laws that covers adoption, surrogacy and something known as adoption of a mature minor and finally we will go through parenting disputes domestic and international disputes domestic disputes are covered under the Care of Children Act while the international disputes are covered even under the Care of Children Act or through the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction so there is both a domestic and international dimension to the family law course in terms of the assessment there are two pieces of assessment for family law there is a 1500 word assignment which is work 20% and a two hour open book exam that is work 80% it will be taught in semester one next year it will be taught on Mondays and Thursdays Mondays between 4-6pm and Thursdays between 4-5pm does anyone have any questions in relation to family law good we'll have a good afternoon hello everyone nice to see you here we'll put I'll not put that there I'm Nina Coore I teach in research in dispute resolution both theory and practice with a focus on mediation mediation for those of you who don't know it's not meditation it's not medication I still get that the whole time it's a process for resolving disputes out of court because getting around the table face to face talking about the problem and negotiating a solution by agreement and all civil cases can be resolved by agreement legally can be resolved by agreement without the need to go to trial so it's always available to the parties to resolve their disputes by agreement we call that settling the case and every case that you read in law school whether it be in tort or contract or equity is a case that didn't settle okay so if I tell you that over 90% of all cases filed in the New Zealand High Court settle before trial what does that tell you about the cases that actually result in a judgement for you to read at law school what it should tell you is that it's only this much okay what actually happens in practice is everything else so my proposition and why I really enjoy teaching this subject is that as a lawyer and actually in other contexts as well I have lots of former students who are now practicing law in a non-dispute context particularly in commercial law and actually in non-legal contexts in management consulting and all sorts of other industries is that actually there's a whole range of skills you need outside of mooting and courtroom advocacy so how most disputes resolved not in court what skills do you need as a lawyer you need skills in conflict diagnosis you need skills in effective communication skills in negotiation theory and you also need to be thinking about what we talk about in this course is the wider civil justice picture it's a fundamentally different ball game in the negotiation and mediation context to represent your clients effectively it's a whole different set of skills so that's what this course is all about getting to grips with those skills both the underlying theory of negotiation and conflict but also the wider jurisprudential civil justice context and also practical clinical skills so switching to and I should have said in terms of who I am, I'm a member of faculty here I also practice as a mediator so I bring that professional practice to bear on what we talk about in the classroom and you'll hear a lot of war stories and so on who should do this course across a wide range of practice areas and when I was thinking of going into litigation I would suggest that along with evidence the other course I teach this is bread and butter stuff, you need to do it if you're looking at going into family law employment law even if you're looking at practicing in criminal law these kind of skills come up in the plea bargaining context increasingly in the restorative justice context and in commercial law we're looking at negotiation skills for deal making what do we actually do the course is a mix of I try and divide it into 50% theory, 50% practice and that carries through both into the way that I teach the course and into the way that we assess the course we have a limited entry most years we have a waiting list because we have an element of practical clinical experience in it which means that we simply cannot have too large a class the assessment as I said 50-50 theory and practice half of it will be a research essay due at the end which will be the theory component of it that is a research exercise, I can't remember the exact word limit it will be in the handbook and due course that is a very academic side of it the rest is more practical so we'll be doing negotiation exercises in class where part of the assessment is preparing for that exercise and then reflecting on how it went from a negotiation theory point of view there will also be an element of group work in past years that's been a group presentation on a specific topic like gender dynamics and negotiation or online dispute resolution the process of reviewing that at the moment it's possible we'll do some sort of online blogging type of exercise so watch the space that will be confirmed in the handbook it's all internally assessed no exam what we've had in past years is that people thought that would be easy and it turned out to be harder so it's not a soft option the other feedback I've got consistently is that it's one of the best courses they've ever taken so take from that what you will in terms of my teaching style I like to run it as a postgraduate workshop so we've got a small class there will be a participation component the expectation is that you get involved you engage, I know your name this is final year of law school stuff it's a chance for you to bring something to the table as well and engage at a higher level questions just say something about the timetable we've scheduled it two mornings a week total of four hours but it's a 15 point course okay and we have it on Monday Tuesdays and Thursdays 9-11 Monday and Thursday 9-11 yes, thanks there are four hours allocated for the 15 point course that gives us flexibility for the practical exercises okay so we will not always go for the full two hours every class what it means is that we can chop and change and I know that you've got that time set aside the assessment is calibrated to reflect a 15 point course okay hello everybody as Steven just said I'm a barrister at the moment I've been a practising lawyer for 20 odd years and I'm replacing Rod Joyce in the civil procedure elective that means it will be a new course next year with a new teacher who's I hope going to bring a bit of a different perspective to the course and I don't mean that in a critical way I've spoken to a few people at chambers who frankly said to me they didn't do civil procedure because they thought it was a bit dry I then asked them if their experiences at chambers since then might see them reflecting on that decision in a more critical way and universally all of them have said yes that tells you something about what you might expect to learn because civil procedure fundamentally is an immensely practical course that will grant you in good skills if you are intending to enter a civil litigation type practice I'm intending to make the course partly a practical course in the sense that I will be teaching you what the High Court rules say and I will be explaining to you from a really sort of how to do it point of view how you go about navigating what is a large piece of work that tells you because it's just a collection of rules how you run a piece of civil litigation this is the stuff that will be the 10% Nina won't deal with so it's the stuff that goes to court it also frequently involves the 90% of stuff that does settle because invariably a lot of those disputes have needed a court proceeding to kick it all off so I'll give you the skills to be able to confidently and confidently draft a pleading document which is a document that tells you what your claim is you will come away from my course knowing exactly what an injunction or a freezing order is and why you might want to get those things and how you might want to go about doing them it's not just the practical side that I want to look at though I've failed if you come away just knowing a bunch of rules I've succeeded if you come away knowing why those rules exist and with a confidence about general civil procedure rules into other areas where similar procedures are needed fundamentally civil procedure is about natural justice and about ensuring that the parties in the court know what case is being argued and can argue fully and properly informed about all the facts the High Court rules is an extremely long piece of work I don't believe it needs to be that long and what I'd like you all to understand as an outcome of that is what's wrong with those rules as well as what's right with them there are many different ways in which a civil procedure or a set of procedural rules applies in New Zealand not just the High Court rules and there are many simple ways in which basic procedures are deployed so if you approach the course the right way not only will you come out with practical skills but you'll have some reasoning well, I know it's written a bit differently from the stuff I learned but fundamentally it's trying to achieve this purpose finally, there's a bunch of new things that have been happening over the last few years in relation to civil litigation actions you've read about a number of them in the newspapers and things their interesting developments of civil procedure and the way in which New Zealand civil procedure is growing I'm talking about things like class actions and litigation funding if you're at all aware of what's happening in New Zealand you will see more and more of these things happening and there are rules that are slowly being brought into place that tell us how we need to deal with those sorts of things so by class action I mean the Kiwifrit girls for example are involved in a big lawsuit in the High Court in Wellington at the moment where they are saying that the government failed them in the government's obligations to keep PSA out of New Zealand you have a large group hundreds of people who all say they've suffered losses around how they can have their day in court but only one day in court because they all basically got the same issue litigation funding is increasingly relevant because litigation is expensive and people can make money out of funding litigation and in New Zealand there are now a number of established companies that offer litigation funding options for people to enable their case to go to court and you'd have probably read about a lot of the James Hardy actions at the moment where people are suing James Hardy and a number of other producers of housing products for defective products that end up on their hazes that mean their hazes leak so it's an exciting little area I'm not going to make it a dry area I don't really like standing up in front of a lectern but like Nina I'm not sure how many people are going to enrol but we'll adapt I think the course to make sure that practical exercises are assessed in a practical way on practical exercises there is a point in examining people on conceptual understandings I've putting my head to how we're going to assess the course and you'll have to wait to the handbook to see that but my own style is I very much like getting out from behind the lectern participating with people getting group collaborative things going and that's an increasingly important skill that I think you'll find in practice working as a team so the PSA litigation is a great example it needs a lot of lawyers to run a big case like that so there's no scope for an individual there you have to know how to work with a team of people to get the vast amount of information before the court so hopefully I'll teach you some of those skills as well I'm quite looking forward to starting this paper a bit from scratch although Judge Joyce is my neighbour so I'm going to sit down with him and ask him what worked the way he taught it and what didn't Questions? Can I do your calls? You can if you like That would take us back a long time Why wouldn't it? That would take us back a long time Nina, were you a student? It makes me sound really old No, you're not that old I was at Russell McVay when Nina first surfaced there so that's how we first met Just a general comment from me Evidence If you were going to think about if I'm going to be a civil litigator now but if that's really where you're heading there are really some core topics Nina's is one, absolutely because 9% of cases settle so you need to know how to settle them and how to do the mediation and stuff For those that don't settle or to get them to the point of settlement you might need to know a bunch about civil procedure Now, a good question to ask me might be why don't I learn that at profs and if I don't learn it at profs what about learning that on the job I didn't study civil procedure when I went through university I don't even think it was offered when I was doing it but what I get from the juniors at Chambers is now because part of the job they're given a lot of the time is read the rules and figure it out and come back to me with what we do here They're actually having to spend a lot of time now learning things that they could have been taught and if they were taught they probably would do better No disrespect to profs but it's a pretty basic course that won't get into the depth of the things that I want to get into and won't give you the skills that you need I'm selling it but that's the reality I've been in practice for 25 years I've employed junior lawyers that don't know the rules and what I've said to them we need to get an injunction quick get the paperwork together and I get a blank look because they don't know that they need an undertaking as to damages and they don't know they need to get some information from the client about their ability to play an award of damages if the undertaking is cool it causes great frustration if you want to leg up in terms of future employer being able to walk confidently into a partner's office and say that looks like a summary judgment application to me can I do it we'll get you miles ahead of the person that sits there blankly and goes I don't know what do we do what's the procedure here Alright Hello to all of you here So I teach evidence criminal procedure Scott Optigan Associate Professor Evidence is also taught by Nina Corey who was just here I teach in the first semester Nina teaches in the second semester Evidence is about the study of how you prove things in court in criminal cases it's a basic standard survey class based on the evidence act 2006 we cover here say privilege, opinion, relevance, prejudice eligibility, compelability opinion evidence etc so all the basics of the law of evidence it's a course that is definitely useful and important for anybody who thinks they might be a litigator or might do any kind of trial or courtroom work because the rules of evidence are governance how you prove things in court we cover both civil and criminal cases however most of the cases are sort of done out of the criminal jurisdiction for various reasons because that's where a lot of evidence law gets made it is like I said a survey class a high level of class participation reasonable amount of reading and statutory references are strictly to the evidence act itself all the materials are produced in-house the only thing you really would need otherwise is a copy of the act and then if you want some outside reference my own book on the evidence act which is currently being updated to its fourth edition so like I said it is a good case for anybody thinking about any kind of trial work in your future litigation, civil or criminal assessment wise it's a standard three hour final exam for a four hour week class and there's a written assignment component as well that written assignment component change depending on who's teaching and it's how we want to do but it's an opinion like question so that's basically evidence and we are going to try to equalize the numbers between the streams right so next year it's a very popular class many many people who are in their final year take it particularly and so we're going to try to equalize the numbers between the streams and we expect pretty full classes in both semesters any questions about any of that? how does this work? well there's no co-requisite for evidence is evidence a prerequisite for advocacy now? that's correct it's a correct so you can do advocacy without advocacy but not vice versa that's what it's been that's what it's been in the past alright anybody else? okay so then moving on to criminal procedure so criminal procedure is essentially the rules that govern the investigation and detection of criminal offenses and the prosecution of criminal offenses so it's kind of like the rules of the game or the cops can do and can't do to investigate crime and then the rules of the game for how criminal trials are conducted it's different than evidence because evidence is how evidence is presented whereas criminal procedure is strictly limited to the criminal jurisdiction evidence is both criminal and civil and criminal procedure is about at the first instance search and seizure police questioning powers police powers to require documents the exclusion of illegally obtained evidence the right to silence the right to counsel all the kind of stuff you see on television when police investigate crimes and so the two thirds of the class is learning the rules that govern how police can investigate crimes or not that basically involves the Bill of Rights Act which largely sets out the most important aspects of criminal procedure such as the Suspect Act when you're arrested or suspected of criminal offending and it also involves the Search and Surveillance Act and also parts of the Evidence Act so like I said about two thirds of the class is devoted to that the last third of the class is devoted to criminal adjudication and criminal adjudication is essentially the rules that govern criminal trials so you're right to cross-examine witnesses you're right to be present and present to defense, jury selection excessive pretrial publicity and you know all that all that sort of stuff as well so criminal procedure would be a class for one of two kinds of people and again it's a reasonable size class it's going to be taught in the second semester and it's for one of two types of people if you're just interested in taking one criminal justice or criminal related class out of interest you might like this one because it does deal with a lot of stuff that you may be familiar with from movies and television or just sort of walking around knowledge that this matters but if you definitely should take it if you're thinking about becoming a prosecutor or a defense lawyer so if you're getting into any kind of prosecution or defense work what you learn in this class would be very very important to how you would conduct cases on either side so learning the rules of criminal law are important to anybody going into that business so I think it would be good for either of those sorts of cohorts or a lecture, one to our lecture it's a standard issue spotter exam at the end with an opinion piece of work component as part of it nothing to buy except for the statuist which you can download the evidence act, the search and surveillance act Bill of Rights Criminal Procedure Act the rest of the materials are produced by me in-house involving all sorts of criminal investigation and adjudication cases from the courts up to and including the Supreme Court all in the criminal pro-evidence business lately that's it, any questions about any of that? I have a question for you we've just heard from Julian Long who's going to be teaching civil procedure can you say something about the relationship of his cause to your criminal procedure and whether students should do one or the other pretty much no relation at all civil procedure which I took in law school and really liked is really about how the rules that govern the conduct of civil cases and again you want to distinguish it from evidence that govern the presentation of proof in civil and criminal cases so the way you present proof and the way you conduct trials there is some overlap but there can be two different things so civil procedure is largely all the processes that take place in the context of civil litigation largely governed by the high court rules and also by overlap with the evidence act whereas criminal procedure really is about things that happen before trial which is the rules that govern how police investigate criminal offences up to the point of arrest and then the last third of the class criminal adjudication is the rules that govern the conduct of criminal trials once someone has been brought into the system so the main difference is it focuses only on criminal jurisdiction and its scope extends more broadly outside just the trial context to the actual investigative phase context which involves many of the things you would have heard and see as your police questioning the right to silence, the right to lawyer that sort of thing so competition law first the course for competition law is a standard sort of competition law course or what the Americans would call antitrust course and we focus on the commissate in particular really parts two and three so the sort of conduct that gets caught up is mergers and acquisitions that will lessen competition there's been quite a lot of media coverage this week about the Fairfax NZME merger as well for instance the idea that the two newspaper groups in New Zealand with two major websites news websites would potentially merge together eliminate competition the question is when does competition eliminate and when does that breach the act and also in this particular case is there some sort of public benefit that may sort of justify this particular merger going ahead as well so this is what we litigated in the High Court this week so obviously those are mergers and acquisitions are one of the key things also what's important is lots of sorts of conduct that can breach the act so price fixing various other sorts of arrangements joint ventures, sometimes these can lessen competition between competitors reducing sort of consumer welfare the benefits to consumers that they expect from competition also sort of taking advantage of market power you have large corporations that have a sort of dominant position on a market and by engaging in a variety of competition or anti competitive acts may be able to eliminate particular competitors smaller firms from the market as well so it's a standard sort of competition or anti trust course the logic behind the course and the structure and the thinking is quite similar our act is based on Australians law but also the law in the UK and the US and the EU all quite similar more based on a lot of similar thinking and understanding competition law we tend to sort of take a more of a policy perspective to that as well really thinking about some of the economics and the arguments behind particular provisions and when they're likely to be breached as well and it really reflects how sort of competition or cases are litigated in practice my second topic please ask if you have any questions my second topic is postgraduate sort of courses for undergraduate students so every year we open up one or two or several sort of postgraduate courses for undergraduate students this tends to be only final year undergraduate students are allowed to do postgraduate courses and we generally choose courses that are there isn't an equivalent at the undergraduate level and that we think students may have some particular interest in doing that particular course so the postgraduate courses sometimes they're taught a little bit differently from the undergraduate courses a lot of our courses are taught on an intensive basis and they may be taught sort of for five days or seven hours a day so the actual lecture time is jammed into a short period of time some of the courses are taught throughout the semester typically if they're taught throughout the semester they're taught one day a week so between five and eight p.m so quite a different sort of timetable from the undergraduate courses the assessment is also quite different as well whereas your typical undergraduate course the assignment and a final exam particularly for the electors when it comes to postgraduate courses there are no exams the assessment is all based on sort of research papers almost entirely based on research papers and so we have courses that are 15 points and 30 point courses so the 15 point course is typically involved writing approximately six and a half thousand words of research essay the 30 point courses are involved writing 12 and a half thousand words research essay so there's a different set of skills so possibly if you're not enrolled in a sort of an honour's dissertation or on a seminar you may not get an opportunity to write a long piece of work or engage in a piece of detailed research work so maybe there's some sort of interest in you doing so as well you've got some particular topic you wish to explore yes we've got so I guess it's as far as sort of who would be suitable for doing these particular courses we tend to sort of set the entry criteria so that only students in their final years having completed part 3 are able to do the postgraduate courses as part of their undergraduate degree there also tends to be sort of a GPA cut off of five as well so you need to be performing reasonably well in parts 2 and 3 before we will allow you to do the postgraduate courses is it difficult and no, students who tend to do it tend to sort of perform just as well if not better than they do in their undergraduate courses as well so by the time because we're only focusing on students in their last year people have had the experience of writing and so they have the skills necessary to perform quite well in these particular courses so there will be a list that sort of posted up fairly shortly about the courses so number of our courses are taught particularly intensive they're taught by visitors so people who are not necessary based at the University of Auckland so probably about a third of our course are taught by visitors people who come from other parts of the world who people from Oxford all sorts of places that may be interested in studying so we have quite a range of international people who teach on a particular program as well so I don't know if it's any particular use or interest but I'll read you the list of topics we've got we've identified that may be of interest to you as well they have copies of the list which is there on the table so there's one or two typos in it but it's pretty accurate as well so that's first grader courses for undergraduate students if you've got any questions please free to ask me or come talk to me in my office Kia ora everybody I'm Caroline Foster married with two children, no pets which is a subject of great dispute in our household and I'm working on the pets side of things so I'm talking with you about two courses today the first of those is public international law so that is the law between countries if you like between states and this 20 point course which runs in the first semester is an introduction to how international law works and to all of the most important and basic aspects of that legal system we can call it so if you're going to learn about any legal system you'll learn about what the sources of law were we start with that you'll each know about who the actors in your legal system are primarily here at states or countries we look at what we call the subjects of international law and we study the topic of personality in international law and then we look at the powers of these states often in the form of the exercise of jurisdiction and then we look at what happens if they break international law we look at what's known as responsibility in international law so these are the core elements of any international law course that you would study in any country we then go on and we start to get a little bit more into this kind of compliance side of things and dispute settlement and we look at what international courts and tribunals do and then we get into having learnt the basic structural mechanisms of how international law works the substantive area of the use of force in international law so we start with collective security we look at the way that the UN system operates and then we look at some of the current quite high profile examples of international conflict and war with particular reference to what has happened in Iraq over the last decade a little more than that now Afghanistan Syria and if there's time we also look at Ukraine and the Russian presence in Ukraine so this isn't just for people who want to go and practice international law it's important that as many of the graduates of our law degrees as possible have a good understanding of how international law works it's so much a part of the world that we live in now but it is an especially helpful course if you did want to go and look at how you might engage in this kind of area and practice working for government would be the main way to do that in my case I worked for foreign affairs and trade for a little bit under a decade after I got my law degrees and then there are international organisations and non-governmental organisations and there's a little bit of private practice in these areas as well it's also a great area for postgraduate work and I think you might be attracted to lots of great and interesting and important topics for the world to address perhaps if I talk about advanced and then just if there's a moment to see if there's any questions so advanced international law is running in the second semester of next year you have to have done international law before you do advanced international law we welcome international students in this course but just a little caveat that we need a reasonably high level of English conversational ability for the advanced course there's quite a lot of class discussion the aim of the advanced course is to extend people's knowledge and skills in international law both on the conceptual side thinking about concepts like sovereignty and in terms of policy based reasoning and analysis of the type that you would discover in practice so the material is quite advanced it's designed to be a more challenging course and there's a real emphasis on student commitment to readings participation in class and then what students will come away with will be an enhanced level of skills in this field it will be useful for seeking employment it will be useful for further research and study it will also introduce you to intersections between sub-fields of international law so you have a chance to get a bit more of an overview of the fact that out there in the world of international law it's not all about fighting in bombs or even peace for that matter but we have the whole field of trade law of investment law of environmental law of law of the sea as my colleague Vincent is going to discuss with you and of human rights law and also that international law at the end of the day is actually all about states and governments increasingly the role of private actors and companies is taking a step to the fore so we'll look at how business fits into international law these days and then that's all anchored in concrete studies so we take specific case studies like tourism in Antarctica climate change and investment in renewable energy projects trade bans on harmful products like cigarettes exploitation of biorganisms and such like so it's a more demanding course and torsion is slightly different if I have time to take a question or two and in fact could you say something about the assessment of those courses yes of course I can so thank you for that if you look at the assessment spreadsheet your second international law appears for both first semester and second semester that's no longer correct so international's first semester only what is missing from here for the second semester is advanced international because it's only recently entered the picture but the time table is correct and has the correct courses so they will be up in next year the assessment for international law which is in the first semester is a test which is an hour and is likely to be an essay question on which you can get feedback and an examination which would be two hours the assessment for the advanced international law course is a little different reflecting the greater emphasis on participation although we also expect that in international law it includes a participation component expected to be probably of 10% no test but some written assignments which will be fairly short and probably worth something like 10% of the mark and then an examination which will be worth a remainder of the mark something like 80-70% questions yes that's correct yep yep that's an alternative but that's for students who are doing the global studies programme I'll catch up with you with that later I'm throwing my head they're both 20 points so they're both four contact hours a week it'll be taught in two groups of two hours so you come to class twice but you stay for two hours each time and me too I do that too um well last you look you know but hopefully not least good afternoon everybody so my name is Vincent Culliati-Bans I'm a newly appointed associate professor here at the law school and next year we'll offer an elective on the law of the sea so what is the law of the sea well the law of the sea basically is the public law of the oceans in fact it's more than that it is an international public law so in a sense it is a sub-category a specialized category of public international law so what we will investigate in the course is well what are the main rules that nations have designed among themselves for the peaceful public regulation of the principal uses of the oceans such as navigation I'm sure you've all heard of the terms high seas or perhaps territorial sea well we will determine what these terms what these notions encompass from a legal perspective access to resources is also a major concern of the law of the sea not just fisheries but mineral resources and other forms of biological resources and so on and in fact we do have a treaty on all these questions a very large treaty in fact it's called the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea around which the course is built so I think it's a fascinating topic it's a fascinating course I think to take not just because the oceans cover more than 70% of the planet not just because more than 90% of world trade is carried by sea but also because of the great variety of problems that we face in the law of the sea I'm sure you've all heard of the problems in the South China Sea nowadays in the South China Sea yes I'm sure you've all heard of piracy of the coast of Africa of the coast of Southeast Asia I'm sure you've all heard of instances of a nation arresting and boarding the ship for the nature of the cargo aboard well all these questions are determined in law by a branch of science called the law of the sea so I think at the end of the day what the course aims to do is to give you an understanding of these main principles governing the law of the sea the use of the oceans but also the reasons the motivations behind the rules and we will look at them in their historical in their international but also in their regional perspective I think the course could be a great course to take for those who intend to pursue a career perhaps in diplomacy oceans management maritime affairs but much more broadly for all those who have an interest in the oceans there will be two pieces of assessment one is a research essay and the other piece of assessment is a final exam in class so I think that's thank you my course really focuses on the public aspect of the use of the oceans whereas maritime law is basically more commercial law so would be classified more as private law my course is really a subset of public international law so we won't deal with things like charter parties this is really for maritime law is there any question thank you very much so you'll see that we skipped over Joe Anna Manning Health Care Law Joe can't be here but she's asked me to just make a few points on her behalf so I'll just speak to that course briefly Health Care Law is co-taught by Professor Joe Joe Anna Manning some of you will know from thoughts all of you will probably know from thoughts and Professor Ron Patterson who was for a decade or so the Health and Disability Commissioner the Second Health and Disability Commissioner in New Zealand and the course is looking at a variety of issues different areas of the law that arise within the health sector so the topics that Joe and Ron propose to cover next year and the course will be in the first semester and it's on Tuesday mornings 9-11 and Friday 1-2 3 hours a week these topics firstly the Cartwright Inquiry which was a major health scandal in New Zealand and which made recommendations that were later adopted and made into law in New Zealand such as the Code of Rights which was recommended by the report after the Cartwright Inquiry an introduction to medical ethics and some case studies other forms of accountability such as the disciplinary process relating to health professionals some specific issues in medical negligence and ACC treatment injury and the course is consent to medical treatment what does the law require for a valid legally enforceable consent what is competence and what is meant by informed consent following on from that the teachers look at the circumstances when it is lawful for a health professional to provide treatment to a patient who is unable to consent who is not competent including medical treatment provided to young children and adolescents there is some consideration of rationing of resources in the health care context which is an ongoing problem so some of the legal issues associated with decisions about who gets treatment as a priority and what the law has to say about that issue of rationing and the last topic in the course is to do with the court's contribution to assisted dying or reform issue so the Seymour bill drawn out of the ballot will come before the House the circumstances in which it is lawful to withdraw life prolonging treatment such as removing ventilators at the end of life and the associated issues the course is assessed by way of a compulsory test a 30 minute test which contributes 20% of the final grade and then an open book exam at the end of the semester for the other 80%. Just coming back to where we start at those generic things there's just one point I want to make in respect of the Honours seminars or in particular the seminar that Trusser Dungworth will be offering next year on international law and that is that Caroline's international law course which will be offered in the first semester is a co-requisite so if you are a prospective Honours student and you think that the Honours international law seminar is the one that you might want to take next year then just be aware that you need to be concurrently enrolled in the first semester in international law unless you've already passed that course other than that I have nothing else to contribute but do you have any questions or comments yes so there are three possibilities for involvement with community organisations the list of them is a community law placement where you spend 40 hours with the community organisation and you write a little reflective report on the experience and for those of you who would be enrolled under law 499 that can substitute for one of the opinions that you otherwise would write but aside from that there's no academic credit associated with that experience the community law project involves spending a couple of weeks or equivalents so a minimum of 75 hours with an approved community organisation and writing a 5000 word report because this is a 10 point course so there is 10 points of academic credit available for the community project the community law internship is just a step up from that it carries 20 points it involves a 10,000 word report and it involves 150 hours with the community organisation now those community organisations that you might be placed with and on which or your experience of which you write a report about are typically in New Zealand might be overseas let's say over the summer and make arrangements to work with some community organisation reflect on that experience and attract credit as a result so 20 points for the internship 10 points for the project 0 points but credit for an opinion towards law 499 in respect of the lesser community placements no information the community law internship the community law project and the community law placements that you recognise at any time that you can find a community organisation that's willing to accommodate you give you a worthwhile experience so potentially all three are available in summer school and or first semester and or second semester anything else of a general nature okay well then we'll draw it to a close and thank you for your attendance and your patience throughout something of a marathon effort endurance demonstrated thanks very much