Torts - LAWS1061
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: LAWS1052 or LAWS1051; JURD7152
Excluded: JURD7161
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
View course information for previous years.
Description
Course Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate awareness of the place of tort law within law generally, and in a broader context;
- Navigate and apply the various sources of tort law within the common law and statute;
- Apply knowledge and understanding of the principles of tort law to hypothetical fact scenarios;
- Engage in critical analysis of tort law;
- Demonstrate effective written communication skills by articulating legal concepts and analysis clearly and persuasively;
- Demonstrate effective oral communication skills by discussing and debating course concepts in a scholarly, reflective and respectful manner.
Topics
- The role and function of tort law
- Negligence – the duty of care in general
- Negligence – duty – personal injury
- Negligence – duty – defective property
- Negligence – duty - pure economic loss
- Negligence – duty – special defendants including public authorities, medical, landlords, parents and children etc
- Breach of duty
- Causation and remoteness including eggshell skull rule and probabilistic causation
- Concurrent liability – vicarious liability
- Concurrent Liability - non-delegable duty
- Defences to negligence
- Assessment of Damages
- Assessing the law of negligence – does it operate as it should?
- Breach of Statutory Duty
Assessment
- Class participation - 20%
- Problem assignment - 40%
- Exam - 40%