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Risk Management and Insurance in Sport - LAWS3082
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 4
 
 
EFTSL: 0.08333 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

This course has been designed to give students an in depth understanding of the commercial issues which arise in the context of the conduct of sport and sporting events. Issues such as assessing potential liability of organisations and individuals in a sporting context, implementing risk management programs and processes and effectively dealing with insurance issues will be dealt with from a commercial perspective.


LLM Specialisations

Corporate and Commercial Law; Corporate, Commercial and Taxation Law.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

The objectives of the course are to equip postgraduates with the skills to identify and deal with risk in sporting organisations, and at sporting events. Those identified risks which cannot be reduced or eliminated may be transferred to insurers, participants or other third parties as appropriate.

Main Topics

  • Current issues of liability: what is risk?
  • Focus on civil liability amendments in sport and recreation
  • Australian Standard for risk management and its application to sport
  • Workshop on risk management
  • Risk management at major events: practical considerations and case studies
  • Negotiating insurance contracts
  • The insurance contract in practice: resolving common issues

Assessment

Essay 4,000 words 70%
Case note/report 30%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed
Law School Supplementary Materials.

Recommended

  • Australian Sports Commission, Governing Sport - the role of the Board
  • Australian Sports Commission, Risk Management for Directors and Board Members of National Sporting Organisations
  • CCH, Sports Law Reporter
  • Healey, Sport and the Law (3rd ed) 2005

Resources

Reading materials will be mailed to postgraduate students prior to the course so that students will be able to attend having completed pre-reading.

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