2009 Course Handbook
LAW886: Advanced Torts
This unit tracks, predicts and analyses emerging trends in Tort law, focusing on developing areas in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, USA and New Zealand. Topics include: dignitary injuries (defamation, privacy, breach of confidence, infliction of emotional injury and Wilkinson v Downton, sexual harassment, nuisance); sexual abuse, battery, consent, breach of fiduciary duty, exploitation; school torts including educational malpractice, negligence, bullying; medicine and torts (wrongful life, wrongful birth, consent, preconception liability; ethical issues); toxic torts and class actions (DES cases, causation, tobacco litigation, addiction and volenti, asbestos, ethical issues); sports torts. One aim is to highlight the flexibility of tort law, by examining ways in which established torts may be re-framed to suit modern demands. The unit raises thought provoking and challenging questions about the nature of common law, and its evolution and capacity to respond to change in a dynamic environment.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | -- |
| When Offered: | 2010 - offered in 2010 |
| Staff Contact: | Ms Penelope Watson |
| Prerequisites: | LLB |
| Corequisites: | |
| NCCWs: | LAW522 |
| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Faculty of Arts |