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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 8. 1966.

Law changes

Law changes

A New - style law course will be introduced to Victoria University next year. The existing 19-unit Llb course will be replaced by a 17-unit degree course followed by a series of professional examinations.

Arrangements for the course and the formulation of regulations are not yet complete but at present plans are for the division of the degree course into two sections.

The first group is of 11 compulsory units: three Arts units. Legal System. Contracts. Criminal Law, Torts, Land Law. Equity and Succession. Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence.

The second group contains Company Law, Commercial Law and Personal Property, and Family Law. which are compulsory subjects for people entering the profession. In this group there are a number of subjects from which a choice must be made to bring the total number of units in the degree to 17.

Professor C. C. Aikman last issue commented on the new law course. Now here are the details …

Subjects in this category include Administrative Law, International Law. Conflict of Laws. Taxation and Estate planning. It is hoped other subjects will be added to the options available—these may include Industrial Law, Criminology, International institutions, Legal history and Planning Law.

After completing the degree a series of professional subjects have to be studied — evidence, civil procedure, conveyancing, taxation and estate planning, legal ethics and advocacy, and office administration. The last two are parttime courses and will not carry the weight of full subnets.

The shape of the Llb honours course has not yet been finalised as it is dependent on the final arrangements for the Llb course. It is expected the honours course will be similar to the planned degree course with increased emphasis on full-time study It will demand a higher level, of attainment and students will attend special seminars in small groups.

Under the new regulations, the difference between the qualification for barristers and solicitors will be removed and all people wishing to qualify for entrance to the profession will be required to complete the degree and pass the professional subjects.

All students who have commenced their course will be able to complete it under the old examination regulations if they do so by the 1969 exanimations. They will have the option of changing to the new course.

Present students will be able to change over next year but this will present some disadvantages for those students who intend to enter the practising profession. However there may be advantages for those students intending to take up careers in the civil service, in academic life, or in business.