LAWS331-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018

Commercial Law I: Sales and Consumer Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 18 May 2018

Description

The course involves a detailed study of the law relating to sale of goods, consumer guarantees, fair trading and other consumer protection legislation.

This course involves a detailed examination of sale of goods. This type of transaction is fundamental to commerce and will be explored in its two most important forms: business to business and business to consumer. Most of the relevant law here is statutory and is found in the Contract and Commercial Law Act 2017. the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 and the Fair Trading Act 1986.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the completion of the course, students should be able to:
  • Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the law of sales of goods in New Zealand;
  • Apply the law of contract to complex factual situations;
  • Analyse sales of goods; and
  • Evaluate sales of goods rules in terms of principle, policy and/or practice.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110

Restrictions

LAWS311

Co-requisites

LAWS202-206

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Matthew Barber

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 07 May 2018 50%
Final Examination 50%


The assessment is likely to be exam 50%, assignment 50%.

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Textbooks / Resources

Will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $790.00

International fee $3,600.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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