UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND 
LAW1111 - Australian Legal System 
Comprehensive Revision Guide and Course Notes 2024 
 
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University of Southern Queensland - LAW1111: Australian Legal System

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2023 - 2024

University	UniSQ
Study Level	Undergraduate
Course Code	LAW1111
Course Name	Australian Legal System
Notes Title	Comprehensive Revision Guide and Course Notes
Page Length	52

This revision guide offers a comprehensive review of everything covered in LAW1111: Australian Legal System at the University of Southern Queensland. It tackles all eight key topics, from introductions to the legal system and research methods to the roles of different government branches, legal sources like courts and statutes, ethical considerations for lawyers, and pursuing a legal career. This in-depth guide is an ideal resource to revise for quizzes, problem-solving exercises, and all your assessments in this course.

This course, Australian Legal System (LAW1111) - provides students with an introduction to the key skills necessary to undertake their substantive law courses, including knowledge of Australian legal institutions; sources of law (judge made law and statute law); professional identity and the importance of legal ethics; how to interpret the law (both case law and statute law) and how to conduct legal research. This course also includes the development of skills relating to problem solving within the context of statutory interpretation. These skills are explicitly taught and assessed throughout the course. Students will continue to build and develop these skills as they progress through other core courses in the Law program.

Main topics to be covered:

Introduction to the Australian legal system and legal institutions, legal research and secondary sources
The Australian Constitution and the role of the legislature, executive and judiciary
Sources of law - courts and judge made law
Interpretation of the law - precedent and case law research
Source of law - parliament and statute law research
Interpretation of the law - statutory interpretation
Legal ethics - understanding and practising law
Becoming a lawyer

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ACC1202	Accounting Systems and Processes
ACC2201	Financial Reporting and Analysis A
ACC2205	Management Accounting A
ACC3201	Financial Reporting and Analysis B
ACC3206	Management Accounting B
ECO1201	Fundamental Economics
ECO2000	The Macro-economy and Business
FIN1100	Commercialisation
FIN1101	Corporate Finance
FIN1103	Financial Markets and Fintech
FIN2113	Investment Securities
FIN2302	Financial Economics
FIN3100	Portfolio Management
LAW1111	Australian Legal System
LAW1501	Business Law and Ethics
LAW3130	Revenue Law and Practice A
LAW3500	Taxation Law A
MGT1101	Human Capabilities for Business
MKT1001	Marketing Fundamentals
STA1004	Fundamental Statistics for Accountants
STA2302	Statistical Inference

University of Southern Queensland - LAW1111: Australian Legal System

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