Module LAW3131: COMMERCIAL LAW - SALE OF GOODS

Department: LAW

LAW3131: COMMERCIAL LAW - SALE OF GOODS

Prerequisites

• The Law of Obligations (LAW1023).

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

Aims

• To build on foundations laid in Law of Obligations, with specific reference to sale & supply of goods.
• It is intended that students shall acquire sound and accurate knowledge of these areas, providing them with a useful resource both for future practice and their everyday lives.
• It seeks to develop students' facility in handling of 'black letter law' areas and, in particular, ability to comprehend and apply relevant statutes, analyse and reason from decided cases.
• It also seeks to identify areas of law appropriate for reform.

Content

• Sale of Goods:
• Introduction and definitions
• Passing of Property
• Transfer of title (nemo dat quod non habet and exceptions)
• Statutory implied terms
• Product liability
• performance of contract by buyer and seller
• Seller's remedies
• Buyer's remedies
• Agency:
• Legal basis and content of the principal-agent relationship

Learning Outcomes

• Students should be able to:
• Demonstrate a sound and accurate (but not necessarily comprehensive) knowledge of commercial law.

• Students should be able to:
• apply the existing law to given factual scenarios and advise accordingly
• Analyse and evaluate the existing law in terms of its legal and commercial context.

• Students should be able to:
• Demonstrate the skill of communicating complex ideas and arguments in clear written form

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• The core principles of the subject will be conveyed by lectures. Additional reading will be set to ensure that more complex aspects of the principles are investigated. Tutorials will be used to reinforce the lectures, to ensure that the reading has been understood, and to develop subject-knowledge and subject-skills as outlined above. Formative essays will be used to develop both subject-skills and communication skills.
• Summative assessment comprises one unseen examination of two hours fifteen minutes (including fifteen minutes reading time). Students are given a choice of questions to answer, but the paper is structured in such a way as to assess students on all the specific outcomes. In particular, students are required to answer both problem and essay type questions: the former primarily assessing knowledge and analysis of specific factual situations raising key legal issues; the latter primarily assess knowledge, evaluative capacity and an awareness of placing the analysis of law in wider contexts of enquiry.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

2 written essays, of about 1500 words each

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University