This course provides administrative structure and functioning of familiarity with legal process, legal research and legal analysis within the context of socio-legal issues important to social work practice in Pakistan. This course will examine and provide familiarity with basic legal principles and topics, as well as their relationship to the social work profession. Focus will be on legal impacts of the court system and the legislative system. The relationship of ethics and the law will be explored within a variety of contexts. The course will also review the knowledge and skills social workers need in order to work within the legal system on behalf of clients. Specific topics will include child welfare, civil rights, crime, mental health and the regulation of social work practice.

Readings and Textbooks:

Report on Handicapped- Children, The Handicapped-Child by Social Welfare wing, ministry of health and social welfare. Government of Pakistan 1980.

Muhammad khalid,”Social Work Theory and Practice” Kifayat Academy, Urdu Bazar Lahore, 2015.

Convention on the Rights of the child-UNICEF.

U.N. Publications on Human Rights, Women Rights, Children Rights, UNHCR.

Friedrich. E. Bert Stiftung, 1997 “Women issues After Beijing”

Nazir Ahmed , “ A Basic Introduction of Muslim Law and Islamic Jurisprudence”, Islamia Book Agency, Afghan Market Qissa Khawani- Peshawar.

C.P. C Law Publication. (Civil Procedure Code) Pakistan.

Jennie Papaya, “Men- Gender Divisions and Welfare”, London and New York 2003.

Clare Unger son and marry “Women and social policy” Kember Mecmillan Press, Ltd. London, 1997

Law for Social Worker. 7th Edition. High Brayne….Oxford University Press, 2001.

Stephen P. Robbins,2005 “The Administrative Process”, prentice Hall Inc Englewood Cliff, New Jersey.

Khan, Alfred J. “Studies in Social Policy an Planning”, New York, Russell sage Foundation.

Robert L. Barker & Doulas M.Granson, “Forensic Social Work Legal Aspects of Professional Practice” 2nd Ed. Haworh Press Inch. London.2010.

Brammer, A. (2015). Social work law (4th ed.). London: Pearson Education Limited.

The Voluntary Social Welfare Agencies (Registration & Control) Ordinance, 1961., Pub. L. No. 547 (K)/62 (1962).

Suggested Readings

Charitable Endowments Act, 1890., Pub. L. No. 6 (1890). Saltzman, A., Furman, D. M., & Ohman, K. (2016). Law in Social Work Practice (3rd ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning. Societies registration Act, 1860., Pub. L. No. XXI (1860). The Companies ordinance, 1984., Pub. L. No. XLVII (1984). Trusts Act, 1882., Pub. L. No. 2 (1882). White, R., Broadbent, G., & Brown, K. (2010). Law and the Social Work Practitioner: A Manual for Practice. Southernhay East Exeter: Learning Matters Ltd.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA :
Mid-term: 30 %

Sessional: 20 %

Final exam: 50 %