1. Collaborate with civic stakeholders and student peers to identify a gap in legal education within the community.

Problem solving

2. Justify your approach to planning and delivering a Street Law session, demonstrating a systematic understanding of the principles of public legal education.

Learning
Enquiry

3. Communicate legal rules and concepts in specific and real contexts, employing techniques to engage specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Knowledge and Understanding
Communication

4. Evaluate your individual contribution to the Street Law project and reflect on how you have developed transferable skills for graduate employment.

Reflection
Analysis

The Group Session Plan (word limit 1500) will be prepared as a team by the students who are working together on a project. It will set out a detailed plan for delivery of the interactive session to the client group, including the intended audience, aims of the session, intended learning outcomes, timing, resources required, and plans for evaluation of the session. (Learning Outcomes 1 and 3.) This assessment will be submitted in the assessment period at the end of Semester 1.

The 20-minute group presentation will take place after the Street Law session has been delivered to their stakeholder group. As a group students will explain the rationale for their project, and discuss the processes of research, design, resourcing and delivery of their public legal education project. The assessors will ask questions of each individual student. (Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3). This assessment will take place towards the end of Semester 2.

The individual reflection (word limit 2000) requires individual students to reflect on their learning: by evaluating their own contribution to its planning and delivery of project, and demonstrating how they have developed skills for graduate employment through taking part in Street Law, including an action plan for skills development. (Learning Outcomes 1 and 4). This assessment will be submitted in the Semester 2 assessment period.

Formative assessment feedback will be provided in the form of scheduled drop-in sessions for the session plan, and the submission of up to 800 words of a draft of the individual reflection.

The scheduled teaching for this module takes place in Semester 1. Timetabled classes will focus on the following elements:

Types of Pro Bono legal advice and education
The principles of Public Legal Education
Theory and practice of Street Law
Designing, planning and resourcing a Street Law session
Engaging your session participants
Working as a team
Ethics
Feedback and evaluation
Becoming a reflective practitioner
Street Law and employability

Street Law is a form of public legal education which makes the public more aware of their legal rights, obligations and responsibilities. Students participating in this module will have the opportunity to design, develop and deliver a project to their chosen community group. As well as developing your communication, team-work, research and presentation skills, participation in the module allows you to conduct in-depth research into an area of law which interests you and to share your knowledge with the wider community. This module may particularly appeal to students who are considering a career in teaching, training or working with community groups.

Strategy, reflection, feedback and principles of teaching/engaging audiences will be key features of each Street Law project. The focus throughout the module is on designing practical solutions to a real life community need for public legal education.

Semester 1:

Lectures - Students will participate in scheduled lectures focusing on skills such as the benefit of public legal education, the Street Law approach, designing a Street Law session, how to engage in public speaking and develop communication skills, organisation skills, the ability to undertake teamwork and creativity, feedback and evaluation, ethics and the importance of reflection. Workshops shall focus on group work on the planning and execution of the project.

Due to the nature of the Street Law module, group work and liaison with civic stakeholders is likely to be required outside the timetabled sessions.

Semester 2: During semester 2, the module focus is on independent study hours as groups deliver their street law sessions, and evaluate them through the final two elements of assessment.

Drop-in tutor support sessions will be available.

Frances Ridout & Linden Thomas Street Law Theory and Practice (Hart 2023)

Law Trove
Practical Law
Lexis

Due to the requirement to attend external premises and in anticipation of delivering material to vulnerable groups and/or minors, all students need to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check prior to the module starting and have satisfactory clearance.