- Course Code
- LS 2025
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Mr G Gordon
Pre-requisites
Legal System; Legal Method
Overview
This course provides students with a knowledge and understanding of the key features of the law of unjustified enrichment and delict in Scots law. In particular, it considers the function and structure of the areas of law under discussion. The course will consider such topics as different forms of unjustified enrichment, the key principles of the law of negligence and breach of statutory duty, deliberate wrongs (including defamation and the intentional economic delicts), the law of damages and law of prescription and limitation as pertains to delict.
Structure
30 one-hour lectures (generally 3 per week) and a total of 4 one-hour tutorials.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 one-hour examination (75%) and one 1,500-word written damages quantification exercise and report to a client (25%, which mark carries forward to resit diets).
1 two-hour examination (75%) and one written damages quantification exercise carried forward (25%).
Formative Assessment
A tutorial problem question write-up.
Feedback
Written feedback will be on the students' formative problem question and a note on common errors will be provided.
Written feedback will be on the students' summative exercise and a note on common errors will be provided.
Students who fail the final exam have the option to go over their first paper prior to the resit.
Feedback will be provided on an ongoing basis in tutorials in the form of tutors' responses to students' contributions in class.