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Advanced Issues in Property Law - LAWS8062
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740 or 9230
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The Course will cover topics in property law that are directly relevant to legal practice but not typically covered in undergraduate law courses. They may include: commercial, retail and residential leases; freehold covenants; strata and community title; property rights in access to water; new and emerging forms of property consequent on technological and social change. There may also be some in-depth focus on the most important recent legislative developments and case law in general property law. The course will also examine how changes in legal rules bear on the concept of property. Students should not enrol in this course if they have not completed prior study in the area of property law.


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Recommended Prior Knowledge

Students should not enrol in this course if they have not completed prior study in the area of property law.

Course Objectives

A candidate who has successfully completed this course should be able to:
  • Incorporate into arguments about controversial issues in property law an understanding of the role that property law plays within the legal system
  • Understand the purpose of, and apply to factual scenarios, important property legislation, including the Retail Leases Act 1994, Residential Tenancies Act 1987, Strata Schemes (Freehold Development) Act 1973, Strata Schemes (Leasehold Development) Act 1986., Strata Schemes Management Act 1996
  • Engage in decates about the appropriate scope of property law (for example, the objects to which property concepts ought to be applicable)

Main Topics

  • theory of property law
  • technological change and the concept of property
  • social change and property rights
  • retail leases
  • residential leases
  • advanced issues in commercial leases
  • introduction to community and strata title
  • freehold convenants

Assessment

Class Participation                        20%
Research Essay 
80% (students will be required to prepare a synopsis prior to writing an essay, grading on this will be incorporated into the essay component)

Course Texts

Prescribed
Please refer to course outline.

Recommended
Peter Butt, Land Law (6th ed 2010);
Robert Chambers, An Introduction to Property Law in Australia (2nd ed, 2007)

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