Subject Code & Title :- LAWS5001 Torts Law
Assessment Type :- Assignment
Instructions :-
This assignment is a compulsory assessment worth 30% of your final mark. Students must make a satisfactory attempt to pass the subject. Please note that you are not permitted to work collaboratively on this assignment. Your answer is to be entirely your own work. Your assignment will be subject to analysis by software to detect similarities.To be clear: do not discuss the assignment topic with any other student and do not show your draft or final assignment to any other student until results are released.
LAWS5001 Torts Law Assignment – Australia.
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LAWS5001 Torts Law Assignment – Australia.
The aims of this assignment:
This is a problem-based assignment and not a research essay. It is designed to test your problem-solving ability i.e., your ability to identify and analyse legal issues in a hypothetical fact scenario. It aims to test your understanding of the cases and legislation set out in the Reading Guide and discussed in classes although the best answers may follow up issues by reference to recommended texts and other sources as appropriate. You should answer with reference mainly to primary sources (i.e., cases and legislation) and not to secondary sources. It is inappropriate to quote or cite lectures or the Reading Guide but reference to text books and other recommended texts may be acceptable in limited circumstances (e.g.an opinion on a contested point of law). You should support your answer with pin point citations to relevant paragraphs or page numbers of cases and other texts.
This assignment seeks to test your understanding of aspects of the material listed in the reading guide under topics 1-7 inclusive. Not all material in these topics will necessarily be relevant to the problem. The identification of relevant issues is a key skill being tested in this assessment.
Assignment question
Antony and his sister Beth were all employed in their parents’ family-run company Kwik constructions Pty Ltd as engineers along with a number of other colleagues including Carl.Carl worked at a desk, using an office chair. As a practical joke when Carl went to the toilet Antony would often run over and reach under the chair to loosen the knob that adjusted the height of the chair, so that when Carl returned from the toilet and sat down the seat would drop beneath him. Carl felt embarrassed by this and was starting to suffer lower back pain. He was seated nearest to Beth so suspected it to be Beth that was playing the prank but he was not sure.
LAWS5001 Torts Law Assignment – Australia.
On one occasion having reached the end of his tether Carl stood up and shouted across the whole room while staring at Beth “whoever is doing this had better bloody stop or they’ll live to regret it”. Beth knew she was innocent but felt anxious because of the way Carl looked at her while shouting.
The next day Carl arrived early to work and stuck razor blades on the height adjustment knob of the chair. The next time he went to the toilet Antony ran over and reached under the chair without looking tried to turn the knob and his hand was cut open by the razor blades. It was bleeding profusely and he suffered permanent nerve damage which prevented him from working as an engineer. Beth was horrified at the sight of her brother’s injury and developed a depressive disorder leaving her unable to work for two months.
A week after the incident with Antony Kwik constructions Pty Ltd decided to hold a Respect in the Workplace seminar on site. It issued a direction to all employees that attendance was mandatory for the duration of the seminar which the company said would take place between and on the following Friday. Carl was amongst the employees that attended the seminar the following Friday. At around that day Carl left the seminar room to use the bathroom in the building. While he was in the bathroom the seminar finished early and all employees of the company quickly went home. The security officers employed by Kwik constructions Pty Ltd then locked the building as is normal at the end of a regular working day and went home themselves.Carl came out of the bathroom at around to discover that he was locked inside the building and no one was around to let him out. Carl called one of the security officers who came back to the building at around and let him out.
LAWS5001 Torts Law Assignment – Australia
Advise Antony and Carl of their rights and/or liabilities in relation to the above facts assuming the events take place in New South Wales. Your advice should include a discussion of any available defences and damages. (Do not consider any issues of vicarious liability.)