Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Practical
Module Offerings
6502LAWBIC-SEP-PAR
Aims
1. To increase students’ awareness of:-
(a) the Mediation process in general; and
(b) their own Mediating behaviour and the implicit working assumptions that underlie it.
2. To develop students understanding of and how to develop operational frameworks and analytic tools for preparing for and conducting Mediations.
3. To help you improve students skills in Mediation, joint decision-making, and joint
problem-solving, and to help you to keep refining those skills
4. To develop Students employability skills generally in relation to problem solving, teamwork, written communication planning and preparation, acting on initiative, reasoning and information literacy and ICT skills.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:1. The mechanics of effective mediation;
2. Written plans for mediations;
3. Effective Communication and presentation;
4. Pursuing the client's best interests and professional ethics; and
5. Concluding and reviewing one's performance in a mediation.
Additional Information:This module is an advanced legal skills module – designed to allow students to gain knowledge and experience of the essential lawyering (and life?) skills of Mediation, and the mediation of disputes.
Assessments
Essay