Local Government and Planning Law - JURD7373
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.
Excluded: LAWS3273
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Course Objectives
- think critically about issues that govern Public Law generally;
- understand the relationship between the Council and its elected representatives, its staff and the community;
- analyse the ethical and conduct codes governing behaviour in Local Government;
- evaluate the role of the Law in dealing with political issues at the local level;
- appreciate the dynamic and evolving nature of this area of the Law, in particular the most recent Planning Reforms to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.
Main Topics
- The concept of a Council as a corporate entity, its charter and power.
- What Council's functions are, including service and regulatory and incidental functions.
- Powers of the Mayor, Councillors, General Manager and a basic outline of meetings practice and Council's power to contract.
- Fiduciary obligations, conflict of interest and code of conduct and the overlapping role of the ICAC and the Ombudsman.
- The Planning Hierarchy under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act.
- Planning and Development under the EP&A Act including existing use rights.
- The role of the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales in planning disputation and judicial review of planning decisions.
Assessment
Research essay (50%)
Problem solving paper (20%)
Study Levels
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