School of Management, Unit Catalogue 2008/09 |
MN50090 Elements of English law |
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| Level: Masters |
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Aims: The aim of this unit is to familiarise students with the principles of law across a wide range of legal topics so as to inform and underpin their work in the translation and interpreting units.
Learning Outcomes: Students who complete the unit successfully will be able to demonstrate an appropriate knowledge and understanding of these topics in their translation and interpreting activities. Skills: The emphasis in this unit is on developing: * the intellectual skill required to assimilate a potentially complex and unfamiliar body of information; * the transferable key skills of listening, analysing information and relating this to data and materials that are likely to be encountered in other contexts; * the practical ability to deploy a functional knowledge of the English legal system as part of professional language work. Content: The main topics dealt with in the unit are as follows: * terminology and functions of the law, court structure and personnel, legal objectives and remedies; * property law, contract law, tort law; * commercial law: principles, companies and partnerships, employment contracts, banking and insurance, intellectual property and competition; * criminal law: general principles and defences, offences against the person, offences against property. Reference will be made throughout to areas of usage that are common with other legal systems, or where there is a substantial difference under English law to that which might be encountered elsewhere. Students are expected to do appropriate background reading. |