This document provides information about QUT's Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice course for future domestic students in 2017, including the course duration, credit points, start dates, fees, campus location, and course structure details. The course consists of eight units totalling 96 credit points that must be completed over 24 weeks full-time or 34-38 weeks part-time. The units involve skills training, work placements, and study of key legal practice areas like civil litigation, commercial law, and property law. Various start dates and course structures are provided for full-time, part-time in-practice, and general part-time study options.

1. Future domestic students
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Year 2017
QUT code LP41
CRICOS 009034F
Duration 24 weeks full time
34 and 38 weeks part
time
Total credit
points
96
Start months January, March, July,
September
Domestic fee
(indicative)
2017: $12000 full
course fee based on
seven units
Course contact law_enquiries@qut.edu
.au
3138 2707
Campus Gardens Point
Accurate as at 13/12/2016. For the latest information see:
https://www.qut.edu.au/study/courses/graduate-diploma-in-legal-practice
This PDF contains information about the course structure. For more information about the course
see the course information PDF
Course structure
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
consists of eight (8) units totalling 96 credit
points. Students must complete all eight (8)
units.
(Standard QUT Advanced Standing
arrangements apply)
Structures
Course structure - Full-Timeq
Course structure-Part-time (in-
practice)
q
Course structure Part-Time (general)q
Course structure - Full-Time
Semesters
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)q
6TP2q
6TP3q
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students)q
6TP3q
6TP4q
Semester 2 (July 2017 entry students)q
6TP5q
6TP6q
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)q
Summer 1 2017q
6TP1 (2018)q
Code Title
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)
Dates: 9 Jan - 17 Feb (6 weeks)
These units involve a compulsory
attendance week: Monday 30 January -
Friday 3 February
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP2
Dates: 20 Feb - 26 May, Break: 17 to 21
April
Code Title
These units are offered both on-campus
and off-campus (online).
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP114 Commercial
LPP115 Property
LPP116 Electives
LPP117 Interaction
6TP3
Dates: 29 May - 23 Jun
This is a 4 week work placement in a law
office.
LPP118 Placement
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students)
Dates: 20 Feb - 31 Mar (6 weeks)
These units involve a compulsory
attendance week: Monday 13 - Friday 17
March
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP3
Dates: 3 April - 30 June
These units are offered off-campus
(online) only
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP114 Commercial
LPP115 Property
LPP116 Electives
LPP117 Interaction
6TP4
Dates: 17 July - 11 Aug
This is a 4 week work placement in a law
office
LPP118 Placement
Semester 2 (July 2017 entry students)
Dates: 3 Jul - 11 Aug
These units involve a compulsory
attendance week: Monday 17 July - Friday

2. Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Code Title
21 July
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP5
Dates: 21 Aug - 17 Nov
These units are offered both on-campus and off-campus
(online).
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP114 Commercial
LPP115 Property
LPP116 Electives
LPP117 Interaction
6TP6
Dates: 20 Nov - 15 Dec
This is a 4 week work placement in a law office.
LPP118 Placement
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)
Dates: 21 Aug - 29 Sep
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Monday 4 -
Friday 8 Sept
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
Summer 1 2017
Dates: 25 Sep - 22 Dec
These units are offered off-campus (online) only
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP114 Commercial
LPP115 Property
LPP116 Electives
LPP117 Interaction
6TP1 (2018)
Dates: 22 Jan - 16 Feb 2018
This is a 4 week work placement in a law office.
LPP118 Placement
Course structure-Part-time (in-practice)
International students are eligible for full time on campus study
only
Semesters
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)q
6TP2q
6TP4q
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students commencing late Feb)q
6TP3q
6TP4q
Semester 2 (July 2017 entry students)q
6TP5q
6TP1 (2018)q
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)q
Summer 1 2017q
6TP1 (2018)q
Code Title
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)
Dates: 9 Jan - 17 Feb
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Monday 30
Jan - Friday 3 Feb
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP2
Dates: 20 Feb - 26 May, Break 17 to 21 April
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
6TP4
Dates: 26 Jun - 22 Sep
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students commencing late Feb)
Dates: 20 Feb - 31 March
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Mon 13
March - 17 March
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP3
Dates: 3 Apr - 30 June
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
6TP4
Dates: 26 Jun - 22 Sep
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
Semester 2 (July 2017 entry students)
Dates: 3 Jul - 11 Aug
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Monday 17
Jul - Fri 21 Jul
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP5
Dates: 21 Aug - 17 Nov
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
6TP1 (2018)
Dates: 7 Jan - 6 Apr 2018 (tentative)
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)
Dates: 21 Aug - 6 Oct
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Monday 4 -

3. Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Code Title
Friday 8 September
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
Summer 1 2017
Dates: 2 Oct - 22 Dec
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
6TP1 (2018)
Dates: 7 Jan - 6 April 2018 (tentative)
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
Course structure Part-Time (general)
International students are eligible for full time on campus study
only
Semesters
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)q
6TP2q
6TP3q
6TP4q
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students commencing late Feb)q
6TP3q
6TP4q
6TP5q
Sem 2 (July 2017 entry students)q
6TP5q
6TP1 (2018)q
6TP2 (2018)q
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)q
Summer 1 2017q
6TP1 (2018)q
6TP2 (2018)q
Code Title
6TP1 (January 2017 entry students)
Dates: 9 Jan - 17 Feb
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Mon 30
Jan - Friday 3 Feb
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP2
Dates: 20 Feb - 26 May, Break 17 - 21 April
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
LPP117 Interaction
6TP3
Dates: 29 May - 23 Jun
This is a 4 week placement in a law office.
LPP118 Placement
6TP4
Dates: 26 Jun - 22 Sept
Code Title
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP2 (February 2017 entry students commencing late Feb)
Dates: 20 Feb - 31 March
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: Mon 13 -
Friday 17 March
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP3
Dates: 3 Apr - 30 June
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
LPP117 Interaction
6TP4
Dates: 26 Jun - 22 Sep
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP5
Dates: 2 - 27 Oct
This is a 4 week work placement in a law office.
LPP118 Placement
Sem 2 (July 2017 entry students)
Dates: 3 Jul - 11 Aug
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: 17 Jul - 21
Jul
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills
6TP5
Dates: 21 Aug - 17 Nov
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
LPP117 Interaction
6TP1 (2018)
Dates: 7 Jan - 6 Apr 2018 (tentative)
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP2 (2018)
Dates: 9 April - 4 May 2018 (tentative)
This is a 4 week work placement in a law office
LPP118 Placement
6TP5 (August 2017 entry students)
Dates: 21 Aug - 6 Oct
These units involve a compulsory attendance week: 4 Sept to 8
Sept
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
LPP112 Work Skills

4. Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
Code Title
Summer 1 2017
Dates: 2 Oct to 22 Dec
These units are taught online.
LPP113 Civil Litigation
LPP115 Property
LPP117 Interaction
6TP1 (2018)
Dates: 7 Jan to 6 April 2018 (tentative)
These units are taught online.
LPP114 Commercial
LPP116 Electives
6TP2 (2018)
Dates: 10 April - 5 May 2018 (tentative)
This is a 4 week placement in a law office.
LPP118 Placement
Unit Synopses
LPP111 Lawyers' Skills
Anti-requisites LPZ111
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP5, SEM-2
This unit introduces you to a range of lawyering skills that will
enable you to apply the knowledge, skills and values that you
acquired in your law degree to the practice of law. Specifically,
this unit enables you to start or to consolidate your acquisition of
skills in legal letter writing, legal drafting, legal interviewing,
negotiation and advocacy skills. The unit will provide you with
the opportunity to apply your knowledge of various areas of the
law, your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact
analysis skills, for such purposes as advising clients orally in and
in writing in complex legal matters; achieving desired client
outcomes when drafting legal documents; and representing
clients effectively in negotiations and before courts.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP112 Work Skills
Anti-requisites LPZ112
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP1, 6TP2, SEM-2
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP5, SEM-2
The Law Admissions Consultative Committee considers that an
entry-level lawyer should be able to demonstrate competence in
ethical understanding and knowledge of solicitors' trust
accounting and file and risk management at the level required for
admission as a legal practitioner in Australia.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP113 Civil Litigation
Anti-requisites LPZ113
Credit Points 12
Availabilities Gardens Point
Anti-requisites LPZ113
- 6TP2, 6TP5
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5, SUM-1
This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of civil
litigation, torts and contract law by providing you with an
understanding of the practices and procedures involved in
resolving client disputes using civil litigation. It will provide you
with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of litigation
practice, your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact
analysis skills for the purpose of finding solutions to client
problems. It will enable you to further develop and apply your
letter-writing and legal drafting skills. It provides you with an
opportunity to demonstrate some of the knowledge, skills and
ethical values that a competent legal practitioner is expected to
apply when conducting litigation.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP114 Commercial
Anti-requisites LPZ114
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP5, SUM-
1
This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of corporate
law principles and commercial law by providing you with an
understanding of the practices and procedures involved in
utilising corporations for client purposes and an understanding of
practices and procedures involved in the sale of a business. It
will provide you with the opportunity to apply your knowledge of
corporate, commercial and revenue law, your legal research and
analysis skills, and your fact analysis skills, for the purpose of
finding solutions to client problems involving commercial
transactions. It will enable you to further develop and apply your
letter-writing and legal drafting skills. It further provides you with
an opportunity to demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and
ethical values that a competent legal practitioner is expected to
apply to complex commercial transactions and problems.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP115 Property
Anti-requisites LPZ115
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP2, 6TP5
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5, SUM-1
This unit builds on your undergraduate knowledge of property
law by providing you with an understanding of the practices and
procedures involved in property transactions such as transfers,
mortgages and leases. It will provide you with the opportunity to
apply your knowledge of property, planning and revenue law,
your legal research and analysis skills, and your fact analysis
skills, for the purpose of finding solutions to client problems. It
will enable you to further develop and apply your letter-writing
and legal drafting skills. The unit will further provide you with an
opportunity to demonstrate some of knowledge, skills and ethical
values that a competent legal practitioner is expected to apply to
complex commercial transactions and problems.
View unit details online | View unit timetable

5. Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
LPP116 Electives
Anti-requisites LPZ116
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP2, 6TP4, 6TP5
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4, 6TP5, SUM-
1
This unit extends your knowledge of the substantive law and the
practices and procedures on two areas of practice that you
choose from the list below. You must choose two from the list
below to satisfy professional admission requirements and unit
requirements. The unit will provide you with the opportunity to
build and apply your substantive law knowledge, your procedural
knowledge, your fact analysis skills and your legal research and
analysis skills. ·%emsp;Administrative law practice%emsp;
·%emsp;Criminal law practice ·%emsp;Family law
practice %emsp; ·%emsp;Banking and finance law
practice%emsp; ·%emsp;Consumer law practice
·%emsp;Employment and industrial law practice
·%emsp;Planning and environment law practice ·%emsp;Wills
and estates practice
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP117 Interaction
Anti-requisites LPZ117
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
Gardens Point
- 6TP2, 6TP5
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP5, SUM-1
This unit complements your study in LPP113 Civil Litigation and
LPP115 Property. It provides you with an opportunity to build
further your legal and fact research and analysis skills, your
communication skills and your ability to manage complex legal
work in a professional manner. It provides you further
opportunities to exercise your professional judgement within an
ethical framework appropriate for a legal profession and to apply
risk management tools in legal professional work.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
LPP118 Placement
Anti-requisites LPZ118
Credit Points 12
Availabilities
External
- 6TP1, 6TP2, 6TP3, 6TP4,
6TP5, 6TP6
This unit provides a capstone to your practical legal training for
admission to the legal profession. It enables you to spend the
equivalent of four working weeks in a law office in Australia, in
which you can observe legal practitioners delivering legal
services. It enables you to observe firsthand legal
professionalism in action and to conduct professional reflection
on this activity.
View unit details online | View unit timetable
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courses are not open to international students, and entry requirements and fee information may be different. For more information and to
check if a course is available, international students should visit www.qut.edu.au/international. Last updated on: 13/12/2016. Information
contained in this document was correct at the time of printing. The university reserves the right to amend any information, and to cancel,
change or relocate any course. CRICOS No.00213J