Module LAW2015C for 2021/2
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Undergraduate Module Descriptor
LAW2015C: The Law of Torts
This module descriptor refers to the 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:
- Introduction to tort law
- Personal torts
- The tort of negligence:
- Duty of care
- Omissions
- Psychiatric harm
- Public bodies
- Economic loss
- Breach of the duty of care
- Causation and remoteness of damage
- Defences
- Duty of care
- Occupiers’ liability
- Product liability
- Employers’ liability
- Land-related torts:
- Trespass to land
- Private and public nuisance
- Rylands v Fletcher
- Vicarious liability
Apart from these, the syllabus will also include a focus on the skills of argument.
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
---|---|---|
60 | 240 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 20 | 20 x 1-hour lectures |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 18 | 9 x 2-hour seminars |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 10 | Workshop activities |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 8 | Advocacy Week |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activity | 4 | Mock trial |
Guided Independent Study | 8 | 8 x 1-hour peer-led law firm meetings |
Guided Independent Study | 10 | 5 x 2-hour peer-led law firm meetings |
Guided Independent Study | 65 | Lecture preparation |
Guided Independent Study | 91 | Seminar and workshop preparation |
Guided Independent Study | 15 | Formative assessment preparation |
Guided Independent Study | 51 | Summative assessment preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
ELE – http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
Basic reading:
- Kirsty Horsey and Erika Rackley, Tort Law (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2019).
- Anthony Weston, A Rulebook for Arguments (5th edn, Hackett Publishing 2018).
- Peter Cane and James Goudkamp, Atiyah’s Accidents, Compensation and the Law (9th edn, Cambridge University Press 2018).