Key words
Civil liability
Objectives
- Students gain insight into civil liability: the concept and the various types of liability. They understand the relationship and coexistence of various types of liability.
- They know and are able to use the concepts of tort, accountability, force majeure, acceptance of the risk and exoneration clauses. They get acquainted with the theory of causality, the theory of equivalence and are able to recognize, analyse and apply it to concrete claims
- The students gain an insight into the various types of compound liability.
- The student know the concept and the various kinds of damage.
- They are able to use the various methods of capitalisation to work out the amount of compensation in concrete cases.
Topics
Part 1:
Liability, survey: objective liability, fault liability, civil liability, contractual and extra contractual liability, criminal liability, relationship and coexistent ion.
Part 2:
Single liability: tort, accountability, force majeure, acceptance of the risk and exoneration clauses
Part 3:
Compound or qualitative liability
Part 4:
Damage and indemnification
Prerequisites
Final Objectives
Materials used
Syllabus and copies off judgements.
Study costs
Standard Hogeschool Gent price.
Study guidance
Teaching Methods
Lecturing, alternated with interactive discussion.
Assessment
First exam session: written exam (100%)
Second exam session: written exam (100%)
Examination Board Flemish Community: (ditto regular student)
Lecturer(s)
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