Undergraduate Course: Succession and Trust Law (LAWS08130)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The aim of the course is to provide an introduction to the law of succession and the law of trusts under the law of Scotland. These two subjects have close connections, so that grouping them in a single course is makes sense. Both are necessary for admission to the legal profession in Scotland, so that the course is intended to play a part not only in the academic development of students but also in their professional formation. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | The same as for other students, but giving credit for comparable courses already taken in the home institution. |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
Summative Assessment Hours 1.5,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
70 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
80 %,
Coursework
20 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 1:30 | | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 1:30 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
(a) The law of liferent.
(b) The law of succession, including both testate and intestate succession (and thus including both legal rights and prior rights). The coverage of testate succession includes material on testaments, including home-made testaments. The course includes the basic principles of the law concerning the winding up of estates, including the law relating to executors, such as the nominate/dative distinction, decerniture (in dative cases) and confirmation. The course covers not only the effect of death in relation to married persons and civil partners, but also cohabitants.
The basic principles of private international law in relation to succession are covered. Students are made aware that great differences exist between different legal systems in the field of succession law.
(c) The law of trusts, including both private trusts and public trusts. The juridical nature of the trust is considered. The various different uses of trust are explained. The course covers the birth (creation), life (administration) and death (termination) of a trust.
The course, in both its parts, has numerous links with the law of persons, the law of property, and the law of obligations, thus enabling the LLB student to attain a sound grounding in the core of private law.
In both parts of the course the students are expected to use both primary and secondary sources. |
Assessment Information
80% unseen final examination lasting 1.5 hours, mainly using problem-type questions.
20% summative written exercise. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Having completed the course students should have, and be able to demonstrate, the following skills:
¿ Ability to think creatively by applying knowledge to multifaceted problems and provide accurate answers in written and oral form
¿ Ability to present arguments for or against a proposition in a dispassionate manner
¿ Complex evaluative and critical problem solving
¿ Numeracy skills. Succession law presupposes a basic level of numeracy: as in insolvency law, there is an estate to be distributed between a variety of potential claimants.
¿ The use of electronic and print resources
¿ Development of doctrinal and taxonomical reasoning skills
¿ Leading on from the foregoing, succession law calls for precise solutions. Its study encourages habits of accuracy. Mere waffle is exposed and penalised.
¿ The drafting exercise likewise assists the students to develop the ability to express themselves clearly and unambiguously
¿ Ability to weigh up the relative strengths that different arguments have in relation to one another
¿ Leading on from the foregoing, students should gain intellectual strength in reflecting on the competing policy arguments that exist within succession law, such as the interests of dependent children, non-dependent children, other relatives, dependent spouses, non-dependent spouses, cohabitants, society as represented by the state, the interest of the individual in relation to her or his autonomy (freedom of testation) |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
2 lectures per week, 5 tutorials |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Daniel Carr
Tel:
Email: dcarr2@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Susan Leask
Tel: (0131 6)50 2344
Email: susan.leask@ed.ac.uk |
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