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2020/2021

Professional Deontology

Code: 42469 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
4313312 Legal Profession OB 1 1
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Lucia Ortiz Amaro
Email:
Lucia.Ortiz@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)

Teachers

Angel Baena Aguilar

External teachers

CARLOTA PALET VENDRELL
EULĄLIA BARROS NAVINES (Coordinadora)
IRENE GÓMEZ CALDERÓ
JOSEP FARNES COSTAJUSSĄ.

Prerequisites

Be a master's student

Objectives and Contextualisation

know the profession
Professional ethics

Competences

  • Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
  • Identify conflicts of interest and know the techniques that are used to resolve these, determine the scope of professional confidentiality and maintain independence of judgement.
  • Identify the essential service and organisational requirements for legal consultancy.
  • Know and act in accordance with the rights and duties afforded by the profession's code of practice, in dealings with clients, other parties, the court or other authority and other lawyers.
  • Know and assess the various responsibilities linked to professional practice, including the basic workings of free legal assistance and the promotion of lawyers' social responsibility.
  • Plan and manage the individual and collective resources available for the practice of the legal profession in its various organisational branches.
  • Understand and be able to implement the activities that support the professional lawyer: organisation, management and commercial dealings, and their legal framework, governing association, taxes, employment and data protection.
  • Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.
  • Work more efficiently and improve the overall performance of the group or institution through better access to information sources, foreign language proficiency, knowledge management and mastery of specialist techniques and tools.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply knowledge of procedural law and substantive law to the case in hand.
  2. Develop the interpersonal skills that lawyers need in their relations with citizens, other professionals and institutions.
  3. Know and be able to apply the different forms of organisation for the practice of the legal profession.
  4. Know the civil liability implications of engaging in professional legal practice.
  5. Know the code of practice and the disciplinary procedure.
  6. Know the functions involved in the duty lawyers rota system.
  7. Know the profession's code of practice.
  8. Know the rules governing free legal assistance.
  9. Plan and manage the individual and collective resources available for the practice of the legal profession in its various organisational branches.
  10. Work in specialist interdisciplinary teams.
  11. Work more efficiently and improve the overall performance of the group or institution through better access to information sources, foreign language proficiency, knowledge management and mastery of specialist techniques and tools.

Content

Program available in "aula moodle"

Methodology

Methodology:


Master classes
Practical classes
Evaluation tests

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Autonomous activities 58 2.32 9, 2, 10
Master classes 37.5 1.5 7, 8, 4, 3, 6, 5
Practical classes 37.5 1.5 1, 11, 2, 10

Assessment

Evaluation

The evaluation is based on two elements:
 
1. Continuous evaluation activities (50% of the final grade)

The format of these activities is defined by each subject. In this subject the following activities will be carried out:
 - Up to 3 points scheduled activities. A total of 3 (1 point per activity) will be made.
 - Up to 2 points the questionnaires in class (they can be test type, short questions, etc). A total of 6 will be made (0.5 points for each questionnaire. The 4 best marks will be computed). DO NOT COMMUNICATE PREVIOUSLY
 
Absences that occur in these activities cannot be recovered at another time unless justified by force majeure. Therefore, this rule can only be excepted in very specific cases (for example, prolonged absences for health or similar reasons)
 
2. Final exam (50% of the final grade)

Test of 40 questions, according to the pattern of the entrance exam of the Ministry of Justice (4 response options, penalizing errors. Three incorrect questions, one correct answer remains)
It is only valued from a minimum grade of 4 (out of 10). Whoever has a lower grade, suspends the module.

Possibility of reevaluation: whoever has obtained an exam score of less than 4, may be re-submitted to recover it. This recovery affects only the test score, not the qualification of the continuous evaluation, which is maintained.

Possibility of uploading an exam grade: the student who wants to improve his or her exam score can be re-evaluated. The grade obtained in the reevaluation will be your exam grade, whether or not it is higher than the one obtained in the first exam.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Final exam 50% 2 0.08 7, 8, 4, 3, 6, 5, 9
Legal application of theoretical knowledge 50% 15 0.6 1, 11, 2, 10

Bibliography

Information in "aula moodle"