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Course details
This first year course introduces students to the law of tort(s), one of four interactive categories of civil law obligations, of the common law: contract, tort, unjust enrichment and other causative events. Tort law has a distinctive bilateral structure and court litigation process: bilateral primary legal obligations which arise by unilateral operation of law, the violation of which by the tortfeasor generates new secondary obligations of reparation (the duty to repair, or damages) in favour of the right-holder, as crystallised by court enforcement. As an analytical framework, this course adopts the explanatory theory or view of 'the conceptual structure of tort practice' as encapsulating corrective justice: a person being held outcome-responsible for certain adverse transactional outcomes they inflict, ie wrongs to privileged legal rights of others. The course commences with an overview of tort law structure and theory. Topics which follow include the main cases of civil wrongs: intentional violation of the legal rights of individuals, personal and real property. The course concludes with consideration of remedial secondary obligations in tort which arise in favour of the legal right-holder against the tortfeasor: declaration ,injunctive relief and damages.
Course at a glance
| Career: | Undergraduate |
| Credit points: | 6 |
| Requisites: | This course has no pre/co-requisites |
| Student Contribution Band: | 3 |
| EFTSL: | 0.12500 |
Course availability
| Term | Campus |
|---|---|
| 2011 Term One | FLEX |
| 2011 Term Two | FLEX |
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