Bachelor of Laws

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Conduct research using different methods, such as comparative and historical research, in a social context.
• Use research using appropriate techniques and methods of retrieving sources of law by using, inter alia a variety of legal electronic databases.
• Analyse and interpret the various sources of law.
• Act responsibly and ethically as a researcher and a scholar through proper referencing of resources referred to.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the law.
• Acquire the ability to critically analyse and comment upon the law.
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of, and the ability to critically analyse and comment upon current and controversial legal issues, bearing the provisions of the Constitution in mind.
• Develop an understanding of how legal principles operate in practice.
• Acquire the requisite legal drafting skills to equip them in understanding the inner workings of court processes.
• Develop the ability to explain, critically analyse and comment upon the relationship between law and society.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Use library, legal databases, internet facilities, and other resources effectively to locate relevant material.
• Analyse and critically evaluate all relevant material and are able to sort and select relevant material applicable to the particular legal issues.
• Act responsibly and ethically, with due regard for applicable conventions.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Analyse, communicate, understand, and argue different points of view coherently and persuasively.
• Evaluate and substantiate legal argument by reliance on the relevant authorities.
• Take and record instructions and advise the client.
• Draft relevant legal documents.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Find the relevant sources and authorities to solve legal problems.
• Select the most authoritative legal sources to solve problems.
• Consider and critically evaluate different solutions to a problem having regard to practical considerations, legal policy, systems, and after due consideration that problems do not exist in isolation.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Use effective communication skills within the group.
• Respect and tolerance for the legal opinion of others.
• Communicate the deliberations of group work effectively.
• Work effectively with members of other professions or disciplines.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Communicate by using electronic mail, including other methods of electronic communications.
• Search and retrieve information over the Internet using search engines and electronic facilities, including the use of legal databases.
• Use word-processing software, including spreadsheets.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:

• Identify the legal principles together with the underlying values applicable to a given situation.
• Relate everyday situations to the law.
• Identify legal problems in real-life or simulated factual situations.
• Present different perspectives on the same legal problem.
• Use knowledge base to evaluate critically different options in solving a practical legal problem.
• Evaluate problematical scenarios occurring at the local, national, regional, and international levels and suggest a responsible course of action to solve such problems.

Formative Assessment:

• Learning and assessment are integrated.
• Continual formative assessment is required to provide feedback on progress in achieving learning outcomes.
• Assignments, real-world briefs, tests, and an integrated qualification portfolio are part of the scheme of work for formative assessment.

Summative Assessment:

• Judgement of learning in relation to the Exit Level Outcomes of the qualification.
• Integrated assessments test the ability to integrate knowledge, skills, and attitudes represented by the Exit Level Outcomes.
• Examinations, projects, reports, or portfolios assess a representative selection of outcomes.
• Tests ability to manage and integrate a large body of knowledge to achieve module outcomes.

Integrated Assessments:

• Integrate the achievement of Exit Level Outcomes to demonstrate the purpose of the qualification.
• Evaluate student performance to provide evidence of applied competence.
• Use criterion-referenced assessment explained to students for recognition of prior learning.