Part 1. Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Background and overview of Mediation
- Preparing and Drafting Position Statements
- Conducting a Mediation - Role play
- Background and overview of Arbitration
- Drafting Arbitration Clauses
- Background and overview of Adjudication
- Analysing and `solving' a legal problem - Problem Based learning sessions

Part 2. Advanced Litigation : Procedure and application in a commercial context

- The Specialist Courts
- Advanced Drafting
- Pre-emptive Remedies and the Commercial Considerations of these
- A `Client file'
- Advanced Disclosure and Inspections

Part 3. Advanced Litigation : Procedure and application in a personal injury litigation context

- Liability and Causation - Establishing Liability
- Damages - Calculating Damages, preparing a Schedule of Loss and Damage,
- `Attacking' a Schedule of Loss and Damage
- The use of experts and expert evidence in litigation (with exercises within a personal injury litigation context)
- Particular features of `Accidents in the workplace'.

One 2.5 hours open book examination covering all learning outcomes.

Under our scheme, the elective subjects are delivered in a 10 week period at the end of the course, comprising 9 weeks of class contact and one week of self-directed study over the Easter vacation. There are approximately 4 hours per week of class contact for each subject made up of one whole group session and one workshop, each of two-hours' duration.