Program Director Contact Details:
Project Management
Name: Professor Vernon Ireland
Phone: +61 411 153 861
Email: vernon.ireland@adelaide.edu.au

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Teaching Staff:

Name: John Twyford

Short Bio:
Admitted as a solicitor after completing the Diploma of Law course at the Solicitors Admission Board in 1965
Completed the Master of Laws by course work at the University of Technology, Sydney
Awarded the Doctor of Juridical Science in 2002
Awarded the Master of Arts (Ancient History), Macquarie University in 2005

Employment history

2000–Now	Editor, Australian Construction Law Newsletter
1992–2008	Lecturer in the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building UTS
2001–2003	Director of the Project Management Program. This Program amalgamated the disciplines of Construction Management, Construction Economics and Project Management
1969–1992	Employed by the Master Builders Association of NSW as Legal Director. The duties of that position included: giving detailed advice to members of the Association on legal problems arising out of building contracts and the impact of legislation on the building industry; and 1980-1992 administered the system of commercial arbitration in the construction industry
1966–1969	Private legal practice

Miscellaneous matters
Member of Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia
Life Member Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology
Supervised four doctoral students who have been awarded degrees

Email: John.Twyford@uts.edu.au

Phone: +61 2 9660 7225

Opening intensive:
Tuesday 31st March & Wednesday 1st April 2015
9am-6pm
Nexus10 Basement UB34

Closing intensive:
Tuesday 28th & Wednesday 29th April 2015
9am-6pm
Nexus10 Basement UB34

1	To familiarize the students with the legal background to the procurement of goods and services.
2	To give the students an understanding of the common law and statutory obligations of vendor and purchaser in a typical situation.
3	To enable the students to understand how the common law and statutory obligations of the parties to a transaction might be varied by agreement
4	To give an overview of law relating to international transactions.
5	To give participants an overview of the law relating to corporations, intellectual property, negotiable instruments, employment contracts and project management contracts.
6	To have some knowledge of the Contracts Code of the People’s Republic of China
7	To give an understanding of the principles of modern dispute resolution.
8	To give students the appropriate skills to consult legal resources related to the solution of a particular legal problem. The resources needed to be understood by students are textbooks, statutes and reports of decided cases. This information is to be found in electronic databases, law reports, textbooks and periodical literature.
9	As most legal information is now available on electronic databases students should develop the ability to access, search and interpret this information.
10	Students should understand the true nature of a professional relationship and distinguish it from other commercial relationships. Here it is necessary to understand the way the ethical rules of professional bodies impact on commercial conduct.

The University’s preferred textbook supplier is Unibooks: http://www.unibooks.com.au/ 

Text book:
Turner, Clive (2010) Australian Commercial Law, 28th Edition (or later), Law Book Company.

G Moens& P Gillies International Trade and Business: Law, Policy and Ethics, 2nd Edition, Routledge& Cavendish (2006)

Australian Standard AS4915-2000

The New York Convention (1958)

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
<http://209.225.62.100/Documents/Manuals/Bidding_Documents/Prequalification/fidic-conditions-of-contract-for-construction.pdf>

Australasian Legal Information Institute website: http://www.austlii.edu.au 

Library Resources
The University of Adelaide’s Barr Smith Library provides a range of learning resources including texts, journals, periodicals, magazines, and access to online databases and information services. It also offers a virtual library which is accessible via the University’s website. The University Library web page is: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/ 
From this link, you are able to access the Library's electronic resources.

Other Resources
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MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning environment. It is used to support traditional face-to-face lectures, tutorials and workshops at the University. MyUni provides access to various features including announcements, course materials, discussion boards and assessments for each online course of study (see: https://myuni.adelaide.edu.au)

This course is offered in blended learning mode with the face-to-face component offered as intensives.

As a guide, a 3 unit course comprises a total of 156 hours work (this includes face-to-face contact, any online components, and self directed study).

This is a draft schedule and session dates are a guide only. The timetable may be changed during the course delivery if necessary.

Intensive	Content	Readings/Activities
1	1: Introduction, description of the common law process, theoretical basis of contracts (why certain promises are treated by the law as binding)	Course Notes Textbook Chapters 1-12
	2: Contract formation including the requirements for intention on the part of the contracting parties, agreement, formalities and consideration, contractual capacity, consent and legality
	3: Continuation of the matters referred to in session 2
	4: Operation of contracts including rules for interpretation of written documents, express term and implied terms
	5: Discharge of contracts by performance; express agreement, frustration, election after breach and operation of the law
	6: Remedies for breach of contract including injunctions, decrees for specific performance and damages – Assessment of damages
	7: Variation of existing contracts including a discussion of the principles of promissory estoppel, waiver, recent developments in the law relating to the doctrine of consideration, retention of title clauses and tendering contract
2	8: Statutory regulation of transactions for the provision of goods and services including a discussion of: Sale of Goods Act 1895 (NSW) and Contracts Review Act 1980 (NSW);	Course Notes Textbook Chapters 13-18, 28
	9: Introduction to the law of torts. Is there a law of tort or a law of torts?
	10: Historical development of the law relating to negligence
	11: Extension of the law of negligence into situations involving negligent misstatement.
	12: Discussion of exercise. The evolution of the concept of proximity and the likely future development in the law in this area
	13: Standard of care, remoteness of damage and defences to actions for negligence
	14: Actions for negligence based on a duty of care arising out of a contract
3	15: Comparative law, an overview of the contract laws of Europe and the Peoples’ Republic of China	Course Notes Textbook Chapters 23-27
	16: Legal personality, partnerships and corporations
	17: Negotiable instruments
	18: Intellectual property
	19: Insurance contracts
4	20: The legal relationship between principal and project manager 21: Dispute resolution including commercial arbitration, mediation and expert determination – International Arbitration	Course Notes Australian Standard AS4915-2000 The New York Convention (1958) United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) FIDIC Contract.

Prior to the formal lectures commencing students are advised to read carefully the lecture notes provided and the relevant material found in chapters 1 – 18 of the textbook.

An overview of the course assessment appears in the following Table. Details appear in the following section:

#	Assessment	Length	Weighting	Due Date	Learning Outcomes
1	Written assignment 1	1,000 words	20%	See MyUni	1, 2, 3
2	Written assignment 2	1,000 words	20%	See MyUni	7
3	Multiple choice test	2 hours	20%	See MyUni	1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9
4	Final written assignment 3	2,000 words	40%	See MyUni	10
	Total		100%

Students should attend all classes in order to pass the course. There is considerable experiential learning in workshops during the intensive classes that build your knowledge and thus enable you to be successful in this course.  

Course results are subject to moderation by the ECIC Board of Examiners

Appropriate use of the Internet in assignments

The purpose of this document is to assist students with appropriate use of the material they have accessed on the Internet in assignments. The Internet is a wonderful source of information and sometimes students are not aware of how to use it properly. For example, a recent case had over 70% of words copied from over 20 other sources. Furthermore, many students think this is the appropriate use of the Internet.

IT IS NOT.

Due to an increasing number of students infringing the University’s Academic Dishonesty Requirements within the Master of Applied Project Management, a more rigorous method of checking assignments is used.

There is a hierarchy of penalties, the lowest of which is the loss of some assignment marks and the student’s name being placed on the Faculty’s Academic Dishonesty Register for six months. This only occurs if I believe this occurred through error. The second level penalty is more significant which is loss of all marks for the assignment and being placed on the University’s Academic Dishonesty Register for the remainder of their time at the University. Even higher penalties can involve the University deciding the student should not graduate. This has occurred in the Master of Project Management.

Appropriate use of the Internet is to include all directly copying of sections of other reports in ‘inverted comas’, as a quotation, and note the source of the quote. To include a group of words without use of inverted commas and without noting where the words came from is an example of academic dishonesty.

Students may not be aware that the University has use of an international database called Turnitin in which all direct use of other material can be traced.

On a more positive note students need to understand the points made in any paper they access on the Internet and integrate these thoughts into their argument rather than just copying large passages. Of course this takes more work but this is what tertiary education requires and, in the end, make students into better thinkers and more able to express their ideas in their assignments.

Professor Vernon Ireland
Director of Project Management

Assessment 1: Written assignment 1
Weighting: 20%
Submission Details: Online through MyUni

Task:
Students are required to look up and read the following decisions of the Courts:
Perry v Dr Lennox [2012] NSWSC 207 (9 March 2012)
DPP v Starr [2012] NSWSC 315 (5 April 2012)
RSPCA NSW (Inspector Milton) v Elliott [2012] NSWSC 585 (1 June 2012)
R v. Cotter [2012] NSWSC 89 (17 Feb 2012)

Ryding v Miles & Ors [2012] NSWSC 153 (1 March 2012)

Streller v. Albury City Council [2012] NSWSC 729 (28 May 2012)

Each of these cases applies the law and students are required to write an essay describing the facts of one of the cases and the legal principle that were used for deciding the case. The transcripts of each of the judgments are to be found on the Australasian Legal Information Institute website: http://www.austlii.edu.au

Scope:
This assignment will assess your understanding of the structure of the common law.

Length and Presentation:
1,000 words

Criteria by which your assignment will be marked:
· Ability to identify and explain legal principles
· How the answer covers all issues
· Logical development of the legal arguments
· Citation of appropriate cases
· Original research
· Clarity of expression
· Appropriate referencing



Assessment 2: Research assignment
Weighting: 20%
Submission Details: Online through MyUni

Task:
At the end of the first intensive session students will have covered the basic principles of the law of contract in the Australian, English and Singapore jurisdictions. As has been explained these principles are derived in the main from the decided cases. There are jurisdictions in the world where the law has been proclaimed as a code. The Peoples Republic of China is such jurisdiction. Parts of the Peoples Republic contract code are reproduced in the course notes. The task is to read the code and compare it to the common law you have studied. Identify a number of rules from the code that you consider to be similar or identical to the common law. In addition identify examples that differ from common law principles. Add a short comment on the similarities or differences. In total eight examples will suffice.

Scope:
This assignment will assess your ability to compare legal principles from one legal system with those of another (comparative law).

Length and Presentation:
Should not exceed 1,000 words.

Criteria by which your assignment will be marked:
· Ability to identify and explain legal principles
· Clarity of expression
· Appropriate referencing



Assessment 3: Multiple choice test
Weighting: 20%
Submission Details: Open book, multiple choice test in class.

Task:
There will be forty questions taken from the lecture notes.

Scope:
This multiple choice class test will assess your familiarity with, and understanding of, the course material.

Length and Presentation:
Two-hour class test.

Criteria by which your assignment will be marked:
A correct answer will score half a mark. There may be more than one correct answer and if so, students will be required to identify all correct answers.



Assessment 4: Written assignment 3
Weighting: 40%
Submission Details: Online through MyUni

Task:
Jack Daniels is the owner of a Porsche motorcar. He had purchased it some weeks previously for $100,000. He is suddenly in urgent need of money and places an advertisement in the Adelaide Advertiser as follows:
‘For sale, an immaculate silver Porsche motorcar, bargain at $75,000. This is a genuine sale and the owner will not accept offers. The first person to deposit $5,000 to the credit of Jack Daniels at the Glenelg branch of the State Bank will be treated as the successful purchaser. The balance of the purchase price will be payable on delivery of the vehicle.’
Harry Smith deposited his cheque for the sum of $5,000 with the Glenelg branch of the State Bank and advised Jack of his acceptance of the offer. Paul Jones also saw the advertisement and wishing to buy the car but in error deposited $5,000 in cash with the Adelaide Bank City branch. Subsequently it was discovered that the Porsche had been in a serious accident and was valued at only $40,000. Neither Harry nor Paul are now willing to proceed with the transaction.

Jack suffered a serious loss as he had an opportunity to purchase shares with the proceeds of the sale of the car. The shares that could have been purchased for $75,000 have increased in value to $150,000. Explain the rights of the parties to this transaction.

Scope:
This assignment will test the students’ ability to construct a legal argument and carry out detailed legal research.

Length and Presentation:
Should not exceed 2,000 words.

Criteria by which your assignment will be marked:
The standards by which the assignment will be assessed include:
· Ability to identify and explain legal principles
· How the answer covers all issues
· Logical development of the legal arguments
· Citation of appropriate cases
· Original research
· Clarity of expression
· Appropriate referencing

All text based assignments must be submitted via MyUni.
Please refer to step by step instructions: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/myuni/tutorials/files/AssignmentStudentSubmission.pdf

There are a few points to note about the submission of assignments:

• Assignment Submission:  Assignments should not be emailed to the instructor; they must be lodged via the MyUni Course site (unless specified to do both). Note that assignments may be processed via TURNITIN, which is an online plagiarism prevention tool.
• Cover Sheet:  Please submit, separate to your assignment, the completed University of Adelaide Assessment Cover Sheet providing details of yourself and your team members (if applicable), your assignment, the course, date submitted, etc. as well as the declaration signed by you that this is your (your team’s) work.  Note that the declaration on any electronically submitted assignment will be deemed to have the same authority as a signed declaration.
• Backup Copy of Assignments:  You are advised to keep a copy of your assignments in case the submitted copy goes missing.  Please ensure that all assignment pages are numbered. If your assignment contains confidential information, you should discuss any concerns with the Course Lecturer prior to submission.
• Extensions of Time:  Any request for an extension of time for the submission of an assignment should be made well before the due date of the assignment to the Course Lecturer.  Normally, extensions will only be granted for a maximum of two weeks from the original assignment submission date.  Extensions will only be granted in cases of genuine extenuating circumstances and proof, such as a doctor’s certificate, may be required.
• Failure to submit: Failure to submit an assignment on time or by the agreed extension deadline may result in penalties and may incur a fail grade.  Note that a late penalty of 5% of the total available marks for that assessment item will be incurred each day an assignment is handed in late (Unless otherwise stated in 'Assessment Related Requirements' or 'Assessment Detail' above).  Assignments handed in after 14 days from the due submission date will fail even if a 100% mark is granted for the work.

Resubmission & Remarking
Resubmission of an assignment for remarking after reworking it to obtain a better mark will not normally be accepted.  Approval for resubmission will only be granted on medical or compassionate grounds.