This course aims to

• Encourage students to discover the meaning and purpose of commercial law, its origins, development and limitations and some of its major issues;
• Equip students with a sound general knowledge and conceptual understanding of aspects of commercial law;
• Develop students' associated practical legal skills in the application of those principles to real life commercial problems;
• Allow students to reflect effective solutions or challenge current legal framework; and
• To develop a habit of research and mind for learning.

Continuous Assessment: 50%

Examination: 50%

Examination Duration: 2 hours

The use of Generative AI tools is not allowed.

To pass this course, students must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 30% in each of the coursework, class participation and the examination elements of the assessment. Coursework for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination.

The portion of the overall mark allocated to performance/participation in inter-active in class activities will be assessed on the quality of the participation. Assessment criteria for those activities, their nature and their timing will be set out in the study guide/course manual and will be further expanded upon by the course leader.

The duration of the examination may last for 2 hours and it will be at the discretion of the course leader. The course leader will announce the duration of the examination in the first week of the course. Similarly the course leader will announce whether the examination will be closed book or open book.

To enable the full benefit to be obtained from this course, students should attend all of the classes and activities.

Assessment will be formative to enable students to demonstrate their capacity to understand, analyse and apply rules and principles and summative to assess ability to synthesise primary and secondary material to solve novel problems.