LW2903Business and Law

What you will study

Course overview

• Introduce students to the Laws of Hong Kong, including the Legal System, Contract Law, Tort Law, Employment Law, Data Privacy Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. 2 LW2903: Business and Law • Develop a clear understanding of the fundamental principles underpinning the Legal System of Hong Kong, Contract Law, Tort Law, Employment Law, Data Privacy Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution. • Highlight the relevance of law to students’ major disciplines and professional contexts. • Enable students to undertake an in-depth study of selected contract and tort issues of particular significance to their major disciplines

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Course content

• General Introduction to the Hong Kong Legal System The legal system, sources of law, the Basic Law, civil and common law, civil obligations and criminal law and the court system • General Introduction to the Law of Contract Formation of contract, intention to create legal relations, offer, acceptance, consideration, vitiating factors (misrepresentation), exclusion clauses, discharge and remedies • General Introduction to the Law of Tort 6 LW2903: Business and Law Torts in general (strict liability, unintentional torts and intentional torts), including general negligence, negligent misstatement and vicarious liability. • General Introduction to Employment Law Employment contract, probation period, sick leave, rest days, holidays, wages, restrictive covenants and termination of an employment contract. • Brief Introduction to the Data Privacy Ordinance of Hong Kong • General Introduction to Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation and arbitration

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Intended learning outcomes

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CILOs                                              Weighting (if DEC-A1          DEC-A2          DEC-A3
                                                                  app.)
1              Describe and discuss the basic principles of law 35                x
2              Explain the legal principles from decided cases    25              x             x
3              Apply basic skills of interpreting legislation     15              x             x               x
4              Identify relevant legal issues which may arise in 10               x             x               x
               the context of the student’s future occupation
5              Apply relevant legal analysis to case study        15              x             x               x
               situations thereby developing problem solving
               and application skills

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Before you take this course

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Prerequisites

Nil

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Precursors

Nil

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Corequisites

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Additional course requirements

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Equivalent courses and conditions

Nil

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Exclusive courses and conditions

Nil

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Assessment and passing the course

Assessment

Continuous Assessment (%): 30; Examination (%): 70; Examination Duration (Hours): 2

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ATs                   CILO No.             Weighting (%)         Remarks ("-" for     Allow Use of
                                                                                      nil entry)           GenAI?
1                    Written               1, 2, 3, 4, 5        30                    -                    No
                     Assignment

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Passing requirements

Minimum Examination Passing Requirement (%): 30 Additional Information for ATs: Students are given one month to complete the assignment question. In answering the question, the students are expected to identify all the relevant legal issues and apply the legal principles from cases and legislation. The examination consists of several problem-based questions which will test students’ ability to identify the legal issues, describe the relevant legal principles as extracted from cases and apply the legal principles to the factual scenarios raised in the questions. The examination may also contain essay type questions which will test students’ understanding of the topic. The assessment tasks of this course will be a closed book examination (students can bring 2 sheets of A4 paper with their own notes ‒ typed or handwritten into the exam.) Both the take home assignment and closed book examination consist of essays and problem-based questions. The students’ performance will be assessed in accordance with their overall achievement of the intended learning outcomes. A student must obtain a minimum mark of 30 in the final examination and achieve an overall mark of 40% in order to pass this course.

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