| Educational guide Faculty of Legal Sciences |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Law (2009) |
 Subjects |
| DAMAGES LAW |
| Contents |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2023_24 |
| Subject | DAMAGES LAW | Code | 15214252 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 4 | Optional | 2Q |
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| Competences | Learning outcomes | Contents |
| Planning | Methodologies | Personalized attention |
| Assessment | Sources of information | Recommendations |
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| PART I. GENERAL ASPECTS OF TORT LAW | Lesson 1. General Introduction 1. Function of the Law of Torts 2. Relationship between Torts and Criminal Law 3. Relationship between Contractual and Unlawful or Tort Responsibility 4. Protected Interests Lesson 2. General Principles 1. The Requirements for Tort Liability: Damaging Behaviour, the Causal Link and The Damage. Unlawfulness and Fault 1.1. Causation 1.2. Causal Link 1.3. Damage and other Remedies 1.3.1. Concept and general aspects 1.3.2. Kinds of damages a) Individual and collective damages b) Direct and indirect c) Pecuniary and non-pecuniary losses d) Pure economic loss e) Actual and future damages f) Other costs g) Mitigation of damages 1.3.3. Assessment and compensation of damages 1.3.4. Personal injury and death 1.3.5. Other remedies 1.3.5.1 Restitution for unjust enrichment 1.3.5.2. Injunctive relief 1.3.5.3. Punitive damages 1.4. Unlawfulness 1.5. Fault and Duty of Care 2. Capacity 1. Infants and Minors 2. Mentally Handicapped 3. Defences and exception clauses 1. Limitation of action and other time issues 2. Grounds of justification 2.1. Consent 2.2. Necessity 2.3. Self-help and self-defence 2.4. Others 3. Victim’s exclusive fault and contributory fault 4. Exemption clauses Lesson 3. Insurances and Social Security 1. Insurances 2. Social Security |
| Part II. SPECIFIC CASES OF LIABILITY | Lesson 4. Specific Cases of Liability for one’s own acts 1. Liability of Professionals 1.1. In General 1.2. Medical Practitioners 1.2.1. Type of Obligation: Is a Certain Result Required? 1.2.2. The Proper Behaviour of Medical Practitioners 1.2.3. Who Can Be Liable for Medical Malpractice 1.2.4. ‘Wrongful Actions’ 1.2.5. Questions on Jurisdiction 1.3. Legal Practitioners 1.3.1. Practising Lawyers 1.3.2. Procurators 1.4. Builders and Architects 1.5. Liability of Notaries and Land Registrars 1.6. Liability of Advisers 1.6.1. In General 1.6.2. Auditors 1.6.3. Liability of Rating Agencies 1.6.4. Liability in Banking Services 1.6.5. Other Liberal Professionals 2. Abuse of rights 3. Injury to reputation and privacy 3.1. Natural persons 3.2. Juristic persons 4. Interference by a third person with contractual relations 5. Organization and practice of risky or high-risk activities 5.1. Sports 5.2. Bull fights 5.3. Fairs and leisure parks 5.4. Swimming pools and water leisure parks 5.5. Liability at discotheques 5.6. Falls 5.7. Firework exhibitions 6. Tort liability derived from package trips 7. Damages to intellectual and industrial property rights 8. Damages related to information society services Lesson 5. Specific Cases of Liability for acts of others 1. Employer/employee. Independent contractors 2. Liability of parents and tutors 3. Liability of educational centres 4. Liability for objects and animals 4.1. Objects 4.2. Animals Lesson 6. Forms of strict liability 1. Road and traffic accidents 1.1. Two types of liability 1.2. Subjective scope 1.3. Causes of exemption 1.4. System of Damage Assessment 1.5. Insurance: SOA and CCS 2. Product liability 3. Liability for service 4. Environmental liability 5. Liability of Public Authorities 5.1. The General Public Administration 5.2. Special consideration of the Liability of the Judiciary 5. Others 5.1. Hunting 5.2. Air transport 5.3. Nuclear energy |
