Programme Specification and Regulations 2011-2012 - LLB and Diploma in Law (Revised Regulations)

Table of Contents

1. Programme Specification and Regulations for the LLB, Diploma in Law and related individual courses (Revised Regulations)
2. Important information regarding the Programme Specification and Regulations booklet
3. Programme Specification
4. Detailed Regulations
5. Individual Course Summary
6. Detailed Regulations for the provision of individual courses
7. Annex A - Structure
8. Annex B - Syllabuses
   1. Administrative law [LA3008]
   2. Civil and criminal procedure [LA3004]
   3. Commercial law [LA3017]
   4. Common law reasoning and institutions [LA1031]
   5. Company law [LA3021]
   6. Conflict of laws [LA3014]
   7. Criminal law [LA1010]
   8. Criminology [LA3025]
   9. Elements of the law of contract [LA1040]
   10. EU law [LA3024]
   11. Evidence [LA3007]
   12. Family law [LA3019]
   13. History of English law [LA3012]
   14. Intellectual property [LA3026]
   15. International protection of human rights [LA3029]
   16. Introduction to Islamic law [LA3028]
   17. Jurisprudence and legal theory [LA3005]
   18. Labour law [LA3018]
   19. Land law [LA3003]
   20. Law of tort [LA3001]
   21. Law of trusts [LA3002]
   22. Laws Dissertation course option [LA3200]
   23. Laws Skills Portfolio
   24. Public law [LA1020]
   25. Public international law [LA3013]
   26. Succession [LA3016]
9. Annex C - Transfers and Credits (within LLB and Diploma in Law)
10. Annex D - Scheme of Award
11. Annex E - Assessment Criteria
12. Annex F - Diploma teaching institutions
13. Glossary of terms
14. Related documents and other sources of information

Commercial law [LA3017]

(a) Agency

• define the term 'agent'
• explain how an agency is created
• discuss the scope of the agent's authority
• explain the rights and obligations owed by the principal and by the agent to the third party
• explain the rights and obligations owed by the third party to the principal and to the agent

(b) Sale of goods

• discuss the approach taken to interpretation of the Sale of Goods Act 1979
• analyse the components of the definition of a contract of sale
• explain the circumstances in which property in goods is passed
• identify how risk is passed
• understand the nemo dat rule
• discuss and illustrate the exceptions to nemo dat rule
• explain the duties of the seller to deliver and the buyer to accept goods
• discuss the implied terms in ss.12-15 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979
• discuss the relationship between the different implied terms
• outline the limits imposed on attempts by the seller to exclude or restrict liability for breach of the implied terms
• understand and discuss the rules on acceptance
• explain the remedies available to the buyer and the seller where there is a breach of the sale contract
• explain the use of retention of title clauses and the limits of such clauses.

(c) International sale contracts

• identify the key characteristics of cif and fob contracts
• analyse the distinctions between cif and fob contracts
• discuss the duties of the seller and buyer under cif and fob contracts
• explain the remedies available to the seller and buyer under cif and fob contracts
• understand the general issues involved in the use of electronic documentation and the effect of international agreements on the terms of international sale contracts

(d) Payment

• define and identify the characteristic features of a documentary credit
• explain the significance of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP)
• identify the different types of documentary credit
• explain the steps involved in the opening of a credit
• analyse the various contractual relationships
• discuss the strict compliance and autonomy of the credit rules
• explain the rights and obligations of the parties.

A student is permitted to bring into the examination room the following specified documents: one copy of each of the following: Factors Act 1889; Misrepresentation Act 1967; Supply of Goods (Implied Terms)Act 1973; Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977; Sale of Goods Act 1979; Supply of Goods and ServicesAct 1982; Consumer Protection Act 1987; Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994; Sale of Goods (Amendment) Act 1995 and one copy of Blackstone's Statutes on Commercial & Consumer Law (OUP).