Features / Highlights

• Content is influenced by and written around the Threshold Learning Outcomes (TLOs) for Law with integrated links to the TLOs of Knowledge, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Collaboration and Communication, Thinking Skills , Research Skills and Self-Management Skills throughout the text
• Legal Skill boxes in each chapter require students to ‘think’, ‘collaborate’, ‘rephrase’ or ‘research’ legal concepts.
• Chapter vignettes ‘Law in the media’ and ‘Perspectives on the law’ connect legal theory to legal precedence and actual legal events.
• Revision questions require students to synthesise and critically evaluate legal concepts.
• Inclusion of law cases encourage deep learning and require to students apply legal reasoning.
• Chapter Checklist is a bullet list of key learning objectives.
• End of chapter exercises are ideal for tutorial discussion.
• The text is divided into 3 Parts: ‘Knowing’, ‘Doing’ and ‘Being’. ‘Knowing’ addresses the broad areas of knowledge that must be understood by every new law student. ‘Doing’ focuses on the fundamental legal skills required by every law student and lawyer. ’Being’ is concerned with four personal traits essentials to success as a new lawyer.