8Commencement and duration of practical legal training

8 Commencement and duration of practical legal training

(1)  In this rule –

integrated program means a program of study that has integrated or combined the components of –

(a) an approved academic qualification; and

(b) an approved practical legal training requirement;

programmed training means structured and supervised training activities, research and tasks with comprehensive assessment;

workplace experience means supervised employment in a law or law-related work environment or equivalent unpaid engagement in such an environment.

(2)  A person is eligible to commence approved practical legal training in a program that is not an integrated program, if –

(a) the person has successfully completed an academic qualification approved for admission to the legal profession in Tasmania; or

(b) the person is –

(i) enrolled in an academic qualification and has no more than 2 academic subjects remaining to be completed in that academic qualification; and

(ii) the 2 academic subjects referred to in subparagraph (i) are not areas of academic knowledge specified in Schedule 1 ; and

(iii) the person submits an application to the Board for permission, and the Board grants such permission, to commence the practical training requirement.

(3)  A person is eligible to commence an integrated program that –

(a) requires the equivalent of 3 years’ full-time academic study of law, not including the time required to undertake the practical legal training components of the program; and

(b) has been recognised by the Board as providing an academic qualification and practical legal training for the purposes of admission to the legal profession.

(4)  Practical legal training approved for admission to the legal profession in Tasmania is to include programmed training and workplace experience of at least –