1997 QUT Handbook

to protect consumers from misleading or deceptive conduct
and unfair marketing practices. Emphasis is given to the role
played by the Trade Practices Act in relation to conveyancing
and land transactions, banking transactions and advertising.
Unconscionable conduct is also considered. The second part
of the unit is concerned with statutory and common law actions
available when loss or damage is suffered as a result of
defective products. Remedies and defences are considered
throughout the course.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN052 LITIGATION – CIVIL PROCEDURE
Focus upon topics of current interest or difficulty in civil procedure.
Supreme and Federal Court rules and practice directions
are considered in the light of the theories of civil procedure
and tactics involved in dispute resolution. Some principles
of negotiation and alternative dispute resolution are also
addressed. Participants will acquire an appreciation of the
dynamics of the adversarial process and an understanding of
selected principles of interlocutory disputes in the light of the
tactics involved in an action as a whole. Offers an opportunity
for students to deepen and broaden their legal education in a
way related directly to professional practice.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN053 RESEARCH PROJECT 1B
See LWN025.
Courses: LW50, LW51 Prerequisites: LWN025
Credit Points: 12
■ LWN054 CONTEMPORARY COMMERCIAL
LEGAL ISSUES
This unit examines the law and practice of contemporary commercial
legal issues. Topics covered include: governmental
trade practices liability, native title implications for financiers
and landholders, third party securities (corporate and personal
guarantees and mortgages), Australian foreign investment
regulation, civil and criminal liability of directors and corporate
advisers, corporate risk management programs, transactions
and securities affecting personal property, international
sale of goods contracts, fundraising and capital markets, internationalisation
of Australian commercial law, civil and
criminal liability of the crown and crown employees, clientbased
research in commercial practice, and paradigm shifts
in Australian law and their impact on commercial practice.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN055 CIVIL RIGHTS
The central principles concerning the protection of human
rights and the impact of international human rights law on
domestic law. Other jurisdictions are compared with the relevant
areas of Australian law and practice.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN056 RESEARCH PROJECT 1C
See LWN025.
Courses: LW50, LW51 Prerequisites: LWN025, LWN053
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN057 RESEARCH PROJECT 1D
See LWN025.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Prerequisites: LWN025, LWN053, LWN056
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN058 RESEARCH PROJECT 2B
See LWN026.
Courses: LW50, LW51 Prerequisites: LWN026
Credit Points: 24
■ LWN059 REMEDIES
The theoretical bases of major common law and equitable remedies
and the substantive law relating to those remedies; the
operation of the law of remedies in Australia and the need for
reform of the law of remedies.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN060 ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SYSTEM
Analysis of the principles and concepts of environmental law
in Queensland; understanding of the law in Queensland for
the protection and conservation of the environment; examination
of the way in which the law accommodates private interests
and the public interest. Included are pollution control,
environmental impact assessment, environmental management,
conservation of the natural and cultural environments.
Courses: IF64, LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN061 NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
The principles and concepts of natural resources law in
Queensland dealing with the ownership and control of natural
resources, providing access to these resources, controlling
the operational side of the development of these resources,
and recognising commercial structures for achieving these
operational objectives; an assessment of a number of developed
and evolving mechanisms for achieving these objectives
such as policy objectives, management plans, incentives and
inducements, market instruments and property rights.
Courses: IF64, LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
Incompatible with: LWN014, LWN027
■ LWN062 FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
History of Commonwealth involvement in environmental
management; the Inter-Governmental Agreement of 1992;
relevant paragraphs of s. 51 of the Constitution; judicial interpretation
of the paragraphs; impact of ss 90, 92 and 109 of the
Constitution; federal legislation dealing with offshore development,
marine environment protection, environmental impact
assessment, national estate, wildlife conservation, Great
Barrier Reef, hazardous waste and industrial chemicals, world
heritage, ozone protection, ecologically sustainable development,
climate changes, and biological diversity.
Courses: LW50 , LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN063 COMPARATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
The principles of environmental regulation in other jurisdictions
and the range of policy and legal instruments being utilised
to achieve environmental objectives; jurisdictions include
European countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom,
the European Union, and countries in North America
and the Asia Pacific region.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN064 THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY
LEGAL CRITIQUE
The influence upon legal, political and institutional reform of
contemporary legal critiques, especially of race, gender, culture/ethnicity
and class.
Courses: LW50, LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN065 CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING LAW
Standard contracts used in the Australian construction and
engineering industries and the legal issues confronting users
of these documents; the law of contract and legislation as it
applies to the construction and engineering industries at an
advanced level; issues of drafting in relation to the relevant
standard forms.
Courses: LW50. LW51
Credit Points: 12 Contact Hours: 2 per week
■ LWN066 ADVANCED INSURANCE LAW
Detailed examination at an advanced level of the general principles
of law applicable to contracts of insurance as well as an
examination of the idiosyncratic rules and practices pertaining
to specific types of insurance. Topics include: Nature and
definition of insurance; insurable interest; third parties’ inter-
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