LA4022:03
Civil Procedure
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 3 |
39 hours lectures, 7 hours tutorials. Semester 2.
Available to LLB students.
An overview of the civil process in the Supreme Court; fundamental principles of civil procedure; jurisdiction; parties and joinder; limitation periods; commencing proceedings; workers compensation and motor vehicle insurance scheme; pleadings; errors and defaults; discovery; trial; costs; alternative dispute resolution.
Learning Objectives:
- to provide students with a sound understanding of the principles of civil procedure by examining their implementation;
- to develop competency in quickly assimilating the practices and rules of courts and tribunals using the common law model.
Assessment by examination (70%); assignment (30%) (subject to variation).