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This document applies to students enrolled in LAWS, JURD and GENL courses in the Faculty of Law & Justice (referred to in this document as ‘Law courses’). It does not apply to students enrolled in courses with a CRIM prefix, unless otherwise advised. If you are unsure about the application of this document or its provisions, please contact your teacher.
Improvements to UNSW systems mean that all information previously provided in Law & Justice's separate Timetable Planner can now be accessed from central University systems. Please check your class timetable in myUNSW via the Class Search Function or the new improved Enrolment functionality.
General course outline information is available at: my.law.unsw.edu/current-students/courseoutlines. In addition to this, Term-specific information is made available to enrolled students via their Moodle course pages approximately one week prior to commencement of Term. Course information in Moodle contains all the detailed information about your course, teachers and assessment. Please make sure you read the course information in Moodle before the start of Term.
Law & Justice-specific information on assessment is available at: law.unsw.edu/current-students/my-academic-life/assessment-exams. In particular, please be aware of the following:
Students are required to attend all timetabled classes and complete all online activities in Law courses.
Most Law courses are taught in a non-intensive mode. - Absences from timetabled classes and failure to complete online activities may negatively affect assessment of the student’s class participation and may result in a fail for that component of the assessment.
The following penalties will apply to the total available marks for that piece of assessment only:
Up to 10% excess – 10% penalty 10%+ up to 20% excess – 15% penalty 20%+ up to 30% excess – 25% penalty 30%+ excess and above – 30% penalty
For example, if the piece of assessment is worth 60% and you exceed the word limit by 15%, the penalty will be 9 marks out of 60. The penalty of 9 marks is deducted from the mark you would otherwise have received.
The Convenor of a course may vary this default rule for the purposes of a specific course or a specific piece of work. The Convenor must notify any such variation to students in the Course Outline or in the course information in Moodle no later than the beginning of the relevant teaching period.
The Faculty is committed to ensuring that all marking is fair and comparable across class groups. The Academic Quality Assurance Committee (AQAC) of the Faculty of Law & Justice reviews all grade recommendations submitted by teachers of Law courses. As part of this process it looks to see if the grade distribution is similar to historical distributions and takes account of teachers’ comments about the performance of the particular student cohort.
The Committee’s role is to ensure that consistent standards of assessment are applied across all Law courses. Where it considers the grades in a course are not aligned with the application of assessment standards across Law courses, the Committee may adjust the grades awarded to individual students.
Any student in danger of failing a piece of assessment worth 50% or more will have their work double marked.
If you have questions about your assessment, the first step is to reflect upon the assessment task in light of the marker’s feedback or, in the case of final examinations, a general guide to the paper, in your course Moodle page. You may then choose to contact your teacher to discuss your work and to request further feedback.
If you are still dissatisfied, you can submit an application for a Review of Results. To apply for a mark to be reviewed, you must follow the UNSW Review of Results procedure published here: student.unsw.edu/results.
You have five working days to submit a Review of Results application after the release of the result. To submit a Review of Results application, complete the online form at: portal.insight.unsw.edu/web-forms/.
The Faculty reserves the right to deny a Review of Results application where insufficient reasons for review are given. You should proceed to enrol in courses in the following Term on the basis that the result will remain unchanged.
UNSW operates under a Fit to Sit/Submit rule for all assessments. If you wish to submit an application for Special Consideration for an exam or assessment, the application must be submitted prior to the start of the exam or before an assessment is submitted. If you sit the exam/submit the assignment, you are declaring yourself well enough to do so.
If you have a documented medical history or instance of misadventure which affects your performance or completion of an assessment in the lead-up to the due date of an assessment and you would like to request Special Consideration, you must submit an application for Special Consideration prior to the assessment due date, except where illness or misadventure prevents you from doing so.
If you submit an assignment, you are declaring yourself well enough to do so and are unable to subsequently apply for Special Consideration.
A Special Consideration application together with all relevant supporting documents must be lodged online via myUNSW. It is not made direct to your teacher or Course Convenor.
Your official documentation must identify the circumstances, date and length of these circumstances, and explain the severity and impact of these circumstances and how these have adversely affected your capacity for that assessment. It is advisable to use the UNSW Request for Special Consideration Professional Authority form (accessible via the Special Consideration link below) wherever possible.
Incomplete and/or undocumented Special Consideration applications will not be processed by the University. This includes medical certificates that don’t indicate the severity/impact of the problem.
All applications for Special Consideration are assessed centrally rather than by your teacher or Course Convenor.
Further information about the process is available at: student.unsw.edu/special- consideration.
If you experience illness or misadventure in the lead up to an exam, and you would like to request Special Consideration, you must submit an application for Special Consideration, prior to the exam, except where illness or misadventure prevents you from doing so.
If you sit the exam you are declaring yourself well enough to do so and are unable to subsequently apply for special consideration.
If you become unwell on the day of the exam, you must provide evidence dated within 24 hours of the exam, with your application.
If you fail an assessment task in a course in the final Term of your program you will be offered supplementary assessment where passing the task would have resulted in you passing the course and completing the program. This requirement does not apply to research- or project- based assessments and theses.
The relevant Program Director (UG/JD/PG) and the Course Convenor will liaise to discuss
All essays and assignments must be accompanied by an assignment cover sheet, which includes a declaration regarding academic misconduct. The cover sheet can be found in myLaw – the Faculty student portal.
It is your responsibility to undertake your studies with honesty and integrity. We assume that you are thoroughly familiar with the policies of UNSW and Law & Justice regarding academic misconduct and plagiarism. Ignorance of the rules is not an acceptable defence against an allegation of misconduct.
See the following website for further details student.unsw.edu/plagiarism.
UNSW and Law & Justice are committed to providing study and well- being services to support you during your enrolment. A complete list of services and contact details is available at student.unsw.edu/support.
If you have a disability (including learning disability), medical condition, or are dealing with personal circumstances that affect your study, Equitable Learning Services may be able to provide you with assistance. This may take the form of an educational adjustment to your teaching and learning environment. You should discuss your study needs before the beginning of the course with an Advisor in Equitable Learning Services (ELS). ELS can arrange tailored support including access to materials, signers or note-takers, the provision of additional services, and alternate exam and assessment arrangements.
You need to be registered with ELS in order for these adjustments to be put in place. ELS will give you a letter of support outlining your educational adjustments which you must then pass on to your class teacher no later than the end of the first week of class. More information and
IMPORTANT – Disclosure guidelines for admission to the legal profession The process for admission as a lawyer involves the admitting authority assessing whether you are ‘a fit and proper person’. When you apply for admission you are expected to disclose any findings made against you relating to the UNSW Student Code.
Admitting authorities undertake random audits and may contact UNSW to verify your student conduct record.
IMPORTANT – Marks from your teacher and official results While in practice a final grade is usually calculated by the addition of marks for individual pieces of assessment, formally all individual assessment marks provided to students by teachers during Term are for feedback purposes only.
This means that a final grade is not necessarily determined by the a ddition of individual marks. The official mark and grade for a course is that issued by the Academic Quality Assurance Committee via the UNSW release of results process.
contact details are available at: student.unsw.edu/els.
UNSW is dedicated to ensuring a safe and healthy working and learning environment. Information on health and safety is available at safety.unsw.edu/.
There may be times when you may become distressed as a result of studying the material in your course. If that is the case you may wish to contact the free and confidential, UNSW Counselling & Psychological Services (CAPS) directly on 9385 5418 or counselling.unsw.edu, or speak to your teacher who may assist you to contact this service.
For all administrative matters in relation to your program please submit an enquiry via student webforms – UNSW/webforms. Alternatively, you can see a Client Services Officer at the Nucleus: Student Hub on Level 2 of the Library Building on upper campus or telephone (02) 893 6 7005.
