Admission to Practice
Please follow these steps
- Finish exams and wait for results to be officially released.
- Apply online to graduate after you have received a letter of invitation from the Division of Student Administration.
- Applications to graduate are processed progressively and you will receive confirmation of your application within approximately 6 weeks.
- Following receipt of your confirmation contact Deakin Central and request a copy of your academic transcript be sent to the Assistant to the Head of School, School of Law, Waurn Ponds Campus.
- Following receipt of your academic transcript in the Head of School's office, an Academic Conduct Report will be generated. This report will be forwarded to the Board of Examiners with your academic transcript and a letter from the Head of School confirming you have completed the course requirements for the LLB. (Please note: without a course completion date, your academic transcript will not be accepted by the Board of Examiners.)
- At the request of the Board of Examiners academic conduct reports are not sent to the student.
Please allow 10 working days from Step (4) for your academic transcript to be forwarded to the Board of Examiners.
For further information about the requirements for Admission to Practice visit the Supreme Court of Victoria website.
Practice Notes
Academic misconduct is the issue that is of most immediacy to the School and it is important that you remember this when completing your assignments. Do not be tempted to cheat – it may be the end of your hopes of being a lawyer. The Board of Examiners views plagiarism so seriously that it now requires all Victorian law schools to provide a certificate stating whether or not the relevant university holds a record of any academic misconduct by that student (in their law studies or elsewhere).
While not all past misdeeds will prevent someone being admitted to practice, failure to disclose may well have that consequence. Please take this matter very seriously.
Please take the time to read the two Practice Notes from the Victorian Council for Legal Education and Board of Examiner provided here as they contain extremely important information relating to admission to practice. While the Practice Notes apply only to people seeking admission in Victoria, every jurisdiction has requirements around disclosure of any matter that may go to fitness to practice.
Supreme Court of Victoria Practice Direction No. 3 of 2009
Supreme Court of Victoria Practice Directon No. 4 of 2009
