LC1S145 - Tort and Transactional Learning 01 Sep 2020 - 31 Aug 2025 | Version 3

Associated Module Information

Module Code: LC1S145
Module Title: Tort and Transactional Learning
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Law
Faculty Sub Group: Law
Module Leader: Karen Counsell
Module Team: Sara Hale, Gemma Sweetman
First Intended Intake: SEP 2015 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 4
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100690 - torts
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 3
Valid From 01 Sep 2020
Valid To 31 Aug 2025

Module Aims

 

To identify and apply the constituents and

developments within the law of tort;

To consider and evaluate relevant remedies to breaches of tortious obligations;

To apply the law within a transactional based learning environment.

Content Summary

Students will examine and apply legal rules concerning the major areas within tortious obligations including negligence, occupier’s liability, vicarious liability and defences;

They will then move on to evaluate and apply appropriate remedies both common law and equity based;

The students will make use of an electronic simulation platform which will allow them to engage in a transactional based approach to learning.

Transactional based learning will underpin their course work allowing them to work in teams, dealing with a larger, more complex based series of transactions, thus allowing the students to simulate a more realistic approach to application and consideration of torts based obligations and remedies.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 26
Seminar 26
Practical classes and workshops 4
Independent Study 144
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Learning Outcome 1 - Explain and applythemajorelements of tortious obligations 
LO2 Learning outcome 2 - identify, locate and apply appropriate remedies for breaches of tortious obligations.
LO3 Learning Outcome 3 - Demonstrate appreciation of transacitonal context of tortious obligations.

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Written Assignment (CW) Time Constrained Assessment (CW) 1 Time Costrained Assessment 120 2400 60 No 40
Written Assignment (CW) Case Study (CW) 1 One piece of written course work taking the form of an online transactional scenario 0 2000 40 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3
Time Constrained Assessment (CW) 1
Case Study (CW) 1

Reading List

Horsey and Rackley, Tort Law OUP

Kidner, Casebook on Torts, OUP

Wier, A casebook on Torts, Sweet and Maxwell

Lunney and Oliphant, Tort Law: Text and materials, Oxford

Burrows, Remedies for Tort and Breaches of contract, Butterworth.