The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Understand the importance of equal access to justice and some of the common issues faced by both individuals with legal or justiciable problems and the organisations that assist them.
• Evaluate and compare practices and solutions from other jurisdictions or service industries to generate new ideas for improving access to legal services or justice in Singapore.
• Solve specific real-world access to justice problems through iterative design, prototyping and testing of digital applications in a collaborative team setting.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
By the end of the course, students should:
1. have a sound knowledge of the law and policies relating mental capacity and succession, and the various legal instruments such as deputyship, lasting power of attorney and Wills;
2. be able to present legal information in a creative way that can be easily understood by the layman which is still accurate and precise;
3. understand the legal needs of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public in this area;
4. have explored ways to enhance the ability of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public to help
themselves, for example through automated form filling and filing of documents.
By the end of the course, students should:
1. have a sound knowledge of the law and policies relating mental capacity and succession, and the various legal instruments such as deputyship, lasting power of attorney and Wills;
2. be able to present legal information in a creative way that can be easily understood by the layman which is still accurate and precise;
3. understand the legal needs of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public in this area;
4. have explored ways to enhance the ability of litigants-in-person, caregivers and the general public to help
themselves, for example through automated form filling and filing of documents.
After successfully completing this course students will:
1. Understand various models of mediation internationally
2. Be able to explain the purpose of each stage in the facilitative mediation process
3. Be able to demonstrate knowledge, application of ethics and skills of mediation
4. Be able to demonstrate conduct of a mediation process
5. Research and critically discuss some current issues in conflict resolution and effectively
present (orally and in writing) your findings.
After successfully completing this course students will:
1. Understand various models of mediation internationally
2. Be able to explain the purpose of each stage in the facilitative mediation process
3. Be able to demonstrate knowledge, application of ethics and skills of mediation
4. Be able to demonstrate conduct of a mediation process
5. Research and critically discuss some current issues in conflict resolution and effectively
present (orally and in writing) your findings.
After successfully completing this course students will:
1. Understand various models of mediation internationally
2. Be able to explain the purpose of each stage in the facilitative mediation process
3. Be able to demonstrate knowledge, application of ethics and skills of mediation
4. Be able to demonstrate conduct of a mediation process
5. Research and critically discuss some current issues in conflict resolution and effectively
present (orally and in writing) your findings.