Course description
There are 5 units within this course: Units 1-3 are mandatory and you have the choice of whether to study unit 4 OR unit 5.
Unit 1: The Nature of Law and English Legal System
- Nature of law
- Nature of law: law and society
- Nature of law: law and morality
- Nature of law: law and justice
- The rule of law
- Law making: delegated legislation
- Law making: statutory interpretation
- Law making: judicial present
- Law making: law reform
- Law making: the European union
- The legal system: the civil courts and other forms of dispute resolution
- The legal system: the criminal courts and lay people
- The legal system: legal personnel and the judiciary
- The legal system: access to justice and funding
Unit 2: Criminal Law
- The rules of criminal law
- Theory in criminal law
- General elements of liability
- Fatal offenses against the person
- Non-fatal offences against the person
- Property offences
- Preliminary offence
- Defences: Capacity defences
- Defences: Necessity defences
Unit 3: Tort
- The rules of tort law
- Theory of tort law
- Liability in negligence for physical injury to people and damage to property
- Liability in negligence for economic loss and psychiatric injury
- Occupiers' liability
- Nuisance and the escape of dangerous things
- Vicarious liability
- Defences
- Remedies
Optional Units
Unit 4: Law of contract
- The rules of contract law
- Theory of contract law
- Essential requirements of contract
- Contract terms: general
- Contract terms: specific terms implied by statute law in relation to consumer contracts
- Contract terms: exclusion clauses
- Vitiating factors
- Discharge of a contract
- Remedies
Unit 5: Human Rights
- Rules in Human Rights law
- Theory in Human Rights
- Human Rights in international law
- Human Rights in the United Kingdom prior to the Human Rights Act 1998
- The European Convention on Human Rights 1953: Article 2
- The European Convention on Human Rights 1953: Article 5
- The European Convention on Human Rights 1953: Article 8
- The European Convention on Human Rights 1953: Article 10
- The European Convention on Human Rights 1953: Article 11
- Restrictions
- Enforcement
- Human Rights and English law
- Reform
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