This course aims to encourage students to discover the nature and purpose of tort law, its origins, development and limitations and legal principles of major tort law issues. It will equip students with the following capabilities in relation to issues in tort law:

• analytical and problem-solving skills necessary to advise on issues of liability in tort;
• effective written and oral communication skills, which are of a international standard;
• research skills and ignite a passion and motivate to discover knowledge.

Continuous Assessment: 50%

Examination: 50%

Examination Duration: 2 hours

The use of Generative AI tools is not allowed.

Please note for this course assessment tasks are divided into examination (50%), Assignment (30%) and Presentation (20%). The motive of all the tasks used will be to motivate students to develop extensive knowledge base and sharpen their research and communication skills. These assessment tasks are formulated by the instructor to integrate learning as a part of teaching and initiate an informed and guided process to unravel knowledge from the collection of materials and information and own it as 'knowledge through discovery' and critical thinking.

Grading of Student Achievement: Standard (A+, A, A to F). Grading is based on student performance in assessment tasks / activities.

To pass this course, students must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 30% in written examination and in coursework activities i.e. tutorials and compulsory assignment. Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students will be assessed other than the end of session examination. Please note that end-of-course/semester examination would be an open book 2 hours written exam.

It must be noted that the final mark allocated to students will be based on the participation in interactive classroom activities during lectures and tutorials. It is therefore, strongly recommended that students must attend all of the lectures/tutorials and participate in class/tutorial activities that will be a part of a final assessment.

Assessment will be formative to enable students to demonstrate their capacity to understand, analyse and apply rules and principles of tort law. This aim will be assess the instructional method of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) that will be used throughout the semester. It will also be essential to assess summative ability of students to synthesise primary and secondary material with a view to solve novel tort law problems.