This course is accredited with the Legal Profession Admission Board as satisfying the requirements for admission to practice in New South Wales.
Applicants may be eligible for advanced standing in F7030 Professional Legal Skills.
Applications from Australian citizens and holders of permanent resident visas must be made via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).
International applicants must apply directly to the University of Western Sydney via UWS International.
Applicants who have undertaken studies overseas may have to provide proof of proficiency in English. Details of minimum English proficiency requirements and acceptable proof can be found on the Universities Admissions Centre website (UAC).
Overseas qualifications must be deemed by the Australian Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR) to be equivalent to Australian qualifications in order to be considered by UAC and UWS.
Applicants must have successfully completed 12 core units from the UWS LLB course.
This course is only available to UWS students who have completed or will complete the skills components of the core LLB units at UWS; or who have previously completed F7031 Professional Legal Skills; or will be completing F7030 Professional Legal Skills in Quarter 1 (Summer session).
Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 80 credit points which includes four core units (20 credit points each) plus a professional placement.
Students must complete all other units prior to enrolling for their Professional Legal Placement.
Core Units
Professional Legal Skills
Professional Legal Skills will focus on meeting the students need, that at the point of admission to practice they will be expected to provide evidence they have achieved the requisite competence in the following Skills (Lawyer’s Skills; Problem Solving) and Practice Areas (Criminal Law Practice; certain aspects of Civil Litigation Practice) as prescribed in the Competency Standards for Entry Level Lawyers for practical legal training that have been jointly developed by the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC). On satisfactory completion of 200278 Professional Legal Skills 1 and Professional Legal Skills 2 and Advance Standing (Academic Credit) can be applied for in this unit.
Legal Practice: Ethics and Management
Legal Practice Ethics and Management is the core unit in the GDLP which will focus on meeting the students need, that at the point of admission to practice they will be expected to provide evidence they have achieved the requisite competence in the following Skills (Work Management and Business Skills; Trust and Office Accounting) and Values (Ethics and Professional Responsibility) as prescribed in the Competency Standards for Entry Level Lawyers for practical legal training that have been jointly developed by the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC).
Transactional Legal Practice
Transactional Legal Practice will focus on meeting the students’ needs that, at the point of admission to practice, they will be expected to provide evidence that, they have achieved the requisite competence in one (1) of the following Practice Areas. These areas are Consumer Law Practice; Employment and Industrial Relations Practice; Planning and Environment Law Practice; Wills and Estates Practice as prescribed in the Competency Standards for Entry Level Lawyers for practical legal training. These have been jointly developed by the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC). On satisfactory completion of The College of Law, Professional Program UWS, or equivalence, Advance Standing (Academic Credit) can be applied for in this unit.
Litigious Legal Practice
Litigious Legal Practice will focus on meeting the students’ needs that, at the point of admission to practice, they will be expected to provide evidence that, they have achieved the requisite competence in all three (3) of the following Practice Areas. These areas are Civil Litigation Practice; Commercial and Corporate Practice; and Property Law Practice as prescribed in the Competency Standards for Entry Level Lawyers for practical legal training. These have been jointly developed by the Australasian Professional Legal Education Council (APLEC) and the Law Admissions Consultative Committee (LACC). On satisfactory completion of The College of Law, Professional Program UWS, or equivalence, Advance Standing (Academic Credit) can be applied for in this unit.
Professional Legal Placement
Professional Legal Practice
Professional Legal Practice is a requirement for completion of the GDLP and for admission as a legal practitioner in NSW, that those students who undertake the GDLP being an accredited professional training course must complete a component of workplace training. Completion of this Unit is a requirement to gain the award of the UWS GDLP and for admission as a legal practitioner. Workplace training experience means supervised employment in a law or law related work environment or equivalent unpaid engagement in such an environment for a period of 45 days.
This unit must be undertaken in order to gain admission to practice in NSW.
