Assignment Task
Purpose
The purpose of this assessment is to assist students to contextualise their learning and test key practical skills Students are not required to provide legal advice or analyse and solve a client scenario in this assessment. However, students are asked to use critical thinking and reasoning to demonstrate their understanding of some crucial skills for future practice as a Migration Agent.
This task assesses the following learning outcomes:
Demonstrate understanding of the Australian visa system, the roles of Courts and Tribunals in Migration Law.
In the context of Australian Migration law, critically evaluate the history of immigration, sovereignty and multiculturalism and their effect: on the Australian legal system and development of the Department of Home Affairs.
Research, formulate and implement appropriate strategies for providing effective advice to clients.
Task
Builds on the communication skills we have bee learning in our weekly modules, including client interviewing. This assessment is intended to measure your understanding of interviewing techniques and to consider the professional obligations of a migration agent.
Builds on your understanding of the structure and foundations of our legal system.
Questions
1. In order to prepare for the above interview, your supervisor has asked you to watch a recording of an interview he conducted with another new client in March 2021. The Sample Interview is available on the Course Assessment page.
After watching the Sample Interview, consider a Migration Agent’s professional obligations during an interview with a new client and provide a critique of the performance of the migration agent. In particular:
Identify four (4) professional obligations under the Code of Conduct that an agent has during an interview with a new client.
Did the agent meet those obligations?
Give examples from the interview in support of your answer.
2. After reviewing the Sample Interview and considering the email you have received from your new client, you task is to explain how you will structure your interview and what you will do differently to the agent in the Sample Interview. Your answer to this question may be written in the first person and should explain the practical approach you will take in your interview. You do not need to give an legal advice or consider specific visa eligibility in your
3. Read the above article and discuss in essay format hov the issues and facts described in the article demonstrate the operation of the doctrine of separation of powers in Australia. In your answer, you should discuss the role of the three arms of government in this matter.
