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COURT ESSAY ASSIGNMENT

The court essay assignment is worth 30% of the overall marks for this subject.  Due date is Friday, 11 October at 11.59pm (week 4)

This piece of assessment requires you to write an essay of not more than 1,000 words answering the following question:

WHAT ARE THE MAIN SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CONDUCT OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE AUSTRALIAN COURT SYSTEM?

Purpose: This assessment is designed:

1. to expose you to court procedures and to allow you to develop a better understanding of how the law is enforced in Australia;

2. to give you experience in researching for information for use in a report on your findings in respect of the conduct of criminal and civil proceedings in the Australian court system.

3. to give you experience in organising and structuring a report on your findings in respect of the conduct of criminal and civil proceedings in the Australian court system.

At the completion of this assessment you should have a better understanding of the Australian legal system and in particular how the courts operate within that system.  This assignment is linked to the Learning Outcome which seeks to develop a knowledge and understanding of the legal system and sources of law in Australia.  You should also have a better understanding of how to research for information for a report and how to utilise that information to provide an organised and structured report.

Researching the Assignment

Basic information will be provided in tutorial 1 and this can also be obtained from chapter 2 of the prescribed text book, Understanding Business Law (9 ed) by Graw and others.  

Further information can be obtained from the internet.  It is suggested that you search words such as civil proceedings in Australian courts and criminal proceedings in Australian courts or other combinations of these key words.  The results from these searches will give you more than adequate information to complete this assignment.

Additional information may be obtained from your local library or you may be able to visit a local court, if there is one close to where you reside.  You do not need to pursue either of these avenues to do this assignment.  The basic information and material from the internet as suggested in the paragraph above will more than suffice.  If you do decide to visit a local court then tips on court etiquette are provided at the end of this document.  Please read these carefully before attending your local court.

Writing the Assignment

Your assignment should be no more than 1000 WORDS.  As you are not law students, you are not expected to produce a legal assignment.  Difficult legal terminology is to be avoided.  Instead, you should pay particular attention to punctuation, spelling, grammar and expression, as these will be a focus for the marking.  Assignments should be double line spaced in essay form (not in point form).

You should write in the third person.  Ensure you construct full sentences and that you set your spell-check on your computers to ‘English’ and NOT ‘American’ spelling. Marks may be lost for the American version of spelling.  Subheadings are encouraged and these do not form. part of the word count. You must reference the material, which you use in your assignment by providing a bibliography at the end of your work.  For those students, who require assistance in preparing a bibliography the following link will help:

https://www.sac.sa.edu.au/Library/Library/Bibliography/bibliography.htm

Referencing in the essay assignment may also be necessary because it is important to attribute words, thoughts and ideas to their author.  If you do not do this you may be seen as claiming the words, thoughts and/or ideas as your own.  This is called plagiarism.

Here are some very basic rules for referencing in your court essay assignment.

You need to distinguish between paraphrasing and quoting.  Paraphrasing is when you use another person’s ideas or thoughts but not the same words.  Using the same words or very similar words is quoting.

If you are paraphrasing then at the end of the paraphrase you need to place the author’s surname and year of publication of his work in brackets.  Example – (Dunbar, 2013)

If you are quoting then if it is a short quotation of less than 40 words, you need to use double quotation marks and also add a page reference.  Example – (Dunbar, 2013 p. 5)

If the quotation is more than 40 words then DO NOT USE quotation marks.  You should set the quotation in an indented (about half an inch) free standing block of text.  You should use double line spacing to separate the quotation from the text of your work.

Examples of quotation referencing

Type

Examples

Direct quotation

Less than 40 words. Always include the author, year, and page number(s) as part of the citation. Students receiving "additional information literacy training achieved higher grades than students who did not attend any skills' sessions" (Capel, 2002, p. 323). 40 or more words. Although the groups contained different age groups, they were not differentiated in the feasibility study:        The intensive ESL program was enthusiastically        supported by the administration and was popular        with the young learners and their parents. Although        the groups differed in age, measures of English and        French proficiency and language aptitude administered        at the outset of the experiment indicated that differences        between the fourth and fifth year classes were non-        significant (White, Horst, & Bell, October 2007); thus in        the research reported here, we do not distinguish        between the two groups. (Horst, White, & Bell, 2010,        p. 334)

For more detailed information on referencing please refer to the following:

http://www.usq.edu.au/library/referencing/apa-referencing-guide#How_to_cite_references_within_the_text_of_an_assignment

Handing in your assignment

This is to be uploaded electronically via LearnJCU by the due date for the assignment.

Assistance with the preparation of your court assignment

The first tutorial (both face-to-face and online) will specifically consider the requirements of the court essay assignment.  Students are requested to have available any questions on the assignment so that they can raise them in this tutorial.

Students can also contact the lecturer, Lance DuBos, via email if they have any specific questions on the court essay assignment.

Criteria/ Weighting	Fail	Pass	Credit	Distinction	High Distinction
Written expression   (30%)	Meaning unclear and/or grammar, spelling and/or referencing/ contain frequent errors	Meaning apparent but language not always fluent; grammar, spelling and/or referencing/ may contain errors	High standard of conventional English; grammar, spelling and referencing/ mainly accurate	Very high standard of conventional English; grammar, spelling and referencing/ accurate	Sophisticated use of English employing an academic style; grammar, spelling and referencing/ accurate
Content Criminal and civil court procedure   (50%)	Unable to identify court procedure and/or few/no observations	Able to describe some court procedure and observations	Sound descriptions of  court procedure and observations	Provides substantial descriptions of court procedure and observations	Comprehensive description of court procedure and observations
Organisation and structure   (20%)	Disorganised/ incoherent. No bibliography.	Shows some attempt to organise in a logical manner, including linking paragraphs. Basic bibliography.	Shows organisation and coherence. Sound bibliography.	Carefully and logically organised. Good bibliography.	Carefully and logically organised; shows sophisticated attention to purpose. Extensive bibliography.
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