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LEGL505 Duty of Care

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Equivalent of 24 hours in mixed mode, including online and on-campus delivery.

Professionals in the human services sectors, especially leaders, aspirants to leadership and managers need to be increasingly aware of the importance of legal rights and obligations particularly as they relate to duty of care. The concept of duty of care and the situations in which that duty is owed is being increasingly enlarged through the Australian judicial system. This unit will provide an understanding of the development of the concept of duty of care and its historical origins as part of the wider area of law of negligence. With a foundation of basic legal principles, a series of case studies will illustrate duty of care issues relevant to the human services sector.

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