Assessment item ? Letter of Advice
You are to produce a letter of advice on an area of law as indicated in the tutorial questions set out in this ?Additional Teaching Material? and as selected for you by the Unit Coordinator in tutorial one.
This assessment task is aimed at assessing and improving your research, communication and your legal writing skills. By learning how to write a letter of advice you will develop and build on problem-solving skills and take them one step further, applying them in a way that will be useful during your career. A letter of advice must be presented in a specific format. You will be marked on both the contents of this letter of advice and the format of your letter.
The request for advice
The Unit Coordinator will be allocating you with a question and this is the information on which you must provide advice on in your letter.
The format of the advice
There are a number of resources available both in the library and the internet that will provide you will useful help in drafting your letter of advice.
An example of one such internet resource is located at:-
https://lib.oup.com.au/he/Law/harris/harris_writinglegaladvice.pdf
There are many other resources available to you that can be of assistance and part of your assessment is your ability to find these resources and use them as a guide to drafting your letter of advice.
Word Count
1750 words.
Letter of Advice questions
Betty is 82 years old and lives alone in a house in Battery Point in Tasmania. She invited her granddaughter Stephanie who lived in New York with her husband Niral who is a builder to live with her and now she wants them to move out. They are refusing saying that there is a contract between them and that she can?t have them removed. Please provide advice to Betty.
Facts: In June 2010 Betty emails Stephanie and invites Stephanie and Niral to move in with her in Battery Point.
Betty states that if Stephanie and Niral move in then she will provide free accommodation plus will leave the house to Stephanie upon her death, Betty also promises to reimburse Stephanie the costs of travelling to Tasmania.
Stephanie and Niral both decide to move to Tasmania and sell up all their belongings and Niral gives up his well paid job as a builder.
Stephanie and Niral live with Betty for 5 months. After this time Stephanie reminds Betty that she agreed to pay their costs associated with moving over to Tasmania and gives Betty the itemised account of $12 600.
Betty gets very annoyed by this and asks Niral and Stephanie to leave her house. Betty states she never intended to honour this agreement and that there is no legally binding contract between them because it was a social matter between family members.
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