The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills: Acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think. Cognitive skills include verbal and spatial abilities, concentration, memory, perception, reasoning, planning and organisation, flexible thinking, and problem solving.
- Introduction
Consistent and effective knowledge and cognitive skills must be demonstrated to provide safe and competent legal assistance and advice. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- Capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- Ability to process information relevant to practice
- Ability to integrate and implement knowledge in practice
- Ability to understand the principles of the duty owed to the court and to the client.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Delivery of quality legal advice and being able to advocate and negotiate a client's case is based on comprehensive knowledge that must be sourced, understood and applied to enable the provision of best practice quality legal assistance. - Adjustments
Adjustments must ensure that a clear demonstration of knowledge and cognitive skills is not compromised or impeded. - Exemplars:
- Ability to conceptualise and use appropriate knowledge in response to academic assessment requirements
- Applying knowledge of policy and procedures in legal professional settings.
Numeracy: This relates to the ability to understand and work with numbers.
- Introduction
Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for professional legal advice and effective client management. - Description of inherent requirement
Student interprets and correctly applies data, measurements, and numerical criteria. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent application of numeracy skills is essential in legal practice to ensure the quality of legal advice and assistance to clients, particularly in dealing with Trust and Control monies. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable the demonstration of a capacity to appropriately interpret and apply concepts and processes in a timely, accurate and effective manner. - Exemplars:
- Demonstrating an understanding to complex commercial transactions that involve numeracy skills
- Calculating entitlements to damages, compensation, interest, or other monetary payments in litigation.