Legal Professional Practice

The College will provide programs that:

• make explicit the core values of the legal profession
• are relevant to professional practice in different contexts
• reflect current law and legal practice
• promote best legal practice
• integrate work-based and academic learning
• enable College graduates to participate actively and responsibly in a diverse and changing profession.

Legal Education Best Practice

The College will provide programs that:

• are student focussed
• are informed by analysis of student learning outcomes and other data
• are informed by relevant research and scholarship
• use active learning strategies to engage students
• incorporate flexible learning technologies
• provide professional mentoring and support to students
• deliver practical and professionally relevant content
• are well organised and structured
• use assessment practices that support and enhance student learning
• are benchmarked wherever relevant with appropriate institutions engaged in similar academic fields or activities
• are facilitated by appropriately experienced and qualified lecturers with ongoing access to professional development.

Professional Legal Ethics

The College will provide programs that:

• give effect to the importance of academic integrity
• provide leadership and scholarship in professional ethics
• actively promote the principles of ethical behaviour in practice
• reflect current issues and research in professional legal ethics
• incorporate professional ethics directly or indirectly
• are delivered by staff who are professional role models
• encourage College graduates to be active and responsible legal professionals who contribute to the service of the community and the administration of justice.