LA2017 - Principles of Criminal Law A
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Law Office |
Principles of criminal responsibility; aims of the criminal law; criminal procedure including the classification of offences; jurisdiction; summary proceedings; trial of indictable offences; homicide; causation; partial defences; non fatal offences against the person and related defences.
Learning Outcomes
- examine the basis of criminal responsibility;
- introduce the tools of analysis used in criminal law;
- teach the essentials of criminal procedure;
- attain familiarity with the offence of homicide, non fatal offences against the person and related defences.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
- The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively.
| Prerequisites: | (LA1101 and LA1102) or LA1007 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | LA1005 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coordinator: | Mr Malcolm Barrett |
| Lecturer: | Mr Luke Neal. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (30%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2012 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Mr Malcolm Barrett. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); assignments (30%). |
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