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LA318

Comparative Legal Systems - RESOURCES

 

ASSIGNMENTS

 

CONTENTS

Assignment One Assignment Two

Assignment One

Solutions to legal problems can be found within the intellectual and institutional structures of a legal system

With reference to a foreign legal system studied on this course

1. Indicate the route you would take to locate a solution to the problem below
2. Show how this might different from or similar to the route you would take in your own legal system

Problem

A private construction company contracted by the Public Works Department of the government is engaged to dig a drainage ditch along the side of a public road. While digging an electric power cable is cut and power to the local brewery is cut off for twelve hours resulting in the loss of a day’s production and the ruin of three containers of beers. This leads to a shortage of beer available in the shops and consumers purchase a competitors brand to quench their thirst. This affects the share price of the company and leads to reduced quarterly dividends for its shareholders.

Does the brewery have a remedy?

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE TO BE HANDED IN WEEK SIX

This assignment is worth 20% of your final mark.

Notes regarding presentation of assignments

• Assignments should be typed in double spacing with type face of 12 or 14 pt.

• Please leave sufficient margins for writing comments.

• Footnotes or end notes should be used and numbered consecutively. All references must be fully acknowledged and the standard policy on plagiarism will apply.

• Pages must be numbered and indicate student name.

• Please fasten pages with a staple on the top left corner. No other forms of binding are acceptable.

• The work must include a bibliography setting out full details of texts, journals and other materials used including internet web site citations. Guidelines for style of citation etc can be found on the Law School Web site as well as reference to rules regarding late submission and plagiarism.

• Each assignment should have a cover page indicting student name and number, course name and number, and stating that it is Assignment One. Please do not waste time with elaborate covers.

• WORD LIMIT 3,000 excluding foot/en notes and bibliography.

Remember that excuses for late submission based on computer failure or IT problems are NOT accepted and that any medical excuse MUST be accompanied by a medical note covering the period up to and including the submission date. Self-certification is unacceptable.

Assignment Two: Week Fourteen

Student presentations: A comparative look at selected topics

For this assignment students are expected to select a topic and compare approaches to this topic in one of the legal systems they have studied and compare it to that of a Pacific legal system.

Suggested topics:

• Land registration systems

• Liability for pure economic loss

• Third Party rights to enforce obligations

• The Ombudsman

• Matrimonial Property Rights

• Liability in road accidents

• Unjust enrichment

• Frustration of contracts

• Formation of contracts

• Due Process

• Business structures and organizations

• Legal capacity

• Constitutional frameworks

• The meaning of Family

• Matrimonial fault

• Criminal Defences

• The treatment of legitimate and illegitimate children

• The role of natural justice

Please note that these are ONLY suggestions and that you are free to choose your own topic either from those covered in lectures or which you have a particular interest in.

Presentations should be ten minutes each and be supported by a written outline – not more than one page – and a paper of not more than 2,000 words. The presentation should summarise the main points of the paper and not simply amount to a reading out of the paper.

The paper must be handed in by the end of the week that presentations are given and no later than 4.00 p.m. Papers should be typed in double spacing, and fastened with a staple in the tope left corner. Papers must be cleared named on each page and pages must be numbered.

YOU ARE WARNED THAT IF YOUR PAPER HAS A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO ANOTHER PAPER BOTH WILL BE GIVEN ZERO

This assignment is worth 20% of your final mark. 10% will be given for your presentation and 10% for the written paper

 

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