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  • Level 5
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $675 NZ Domestic
    $1,772 NZ International
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This online course provides you with a broad introduction to the law including its creation, location, interpretation and selected basic applications.  

It includes the characteristics and components of our legal system, as well as the principles relating to specific areas of law such as the law of contract, tort, consumer law, property and agency.  

This understanding will enable you to apply principles of law to a given set of facts, and so resolve the legal aspects of business problems.

For more information watch the course introduction video below.

Students who successfully complete this online course will be able to

  • Discuss key features of the New Zealand legal system. 
  • Apply the basic principles of tort law including the tort of negligence.
  • Apply the basic principles of the law of contract. 
  • Apply the basic principles of consumer law. 
  • Apply basic legal principles to common commercial transactions.

Assessment

50% internally assessed

50% exam

For more information and a full list of exam times see our examinations page.

Assessment for this course includes an examination

Open Polytechnic will, subject to you meeting the entry requirements for this course/programme, enrol you in this course.

Your enrolment in the course means that you should expect to complete an in-person examination.

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Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.

How to apply

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