LAWS12066 - Land Law

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit Land Law LAWS12066 meets the LPAB requirements for property law. It has a specific focus on the law of real property in Queensland. It covers the following themes: The concept of land; land registration systems with an emphasis on the Torrens system and the impact of e-technology pursuant to the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld); the principles for resolving priority disputes in Torrens title land under the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld) with a focus on legal vs equitable interests; future interests and the rule against perpetuities under the Property Law Act 1974 (Qld) and the general law; concurrent ownership; leases; mortgages; easements; freehold covenants and profit a prendres. The unit also includes a discussion of native title; possession, seisin & title and enforcement of security interests in personal property under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth). Students are expected to have completed Foundations of Property Law - LAWS12065 first as the unit content assumes knowledge from that unit.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 2
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Pre-requisite: 24 credit points of law  

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024

Term 2 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 2 - 2025 Profile
Online

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Online Quiz(zes) 10%
2. Written Assessment 40%
3. Take Home Exam 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 81.48% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 32.53% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Unit Coordinator
Feedback
Assessment supports
Recommendation
To give more learning materials relating to the standard of written work expected in the exam earlier in the term.
Action Taken
Completed. Standard incorporated into mid-semester assessment, mid-semester feedback and all tutorials.
Source: Unit Coordinator
Feedback
Learning materials
Recommendation
To give students more learning materials so they rely on primary source material and prescribed textbooks.
Action Taken
Completed. All Study Guides updated and primary materials incorporated into all podcasts as well.
Source: Unit Evaluation Data
Feedback
Participation in live zoom workshops
Recommendation
To better explain to students best professional practice in keeping cameras on during live zoom meetings
Action Taken
Ongoing. Students have various tolerance levels for this due to privacy concerns.
Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
Research assessments - students of the impression that assessments are not research based (that is, only cover content already covered in lecture content).
Recommendation
Make clear in the Unit Outline and in the first week of lectures and tutorials that research skills are a fundamental component of Graduate Attributes that students are assessed on and that students are expected to be able to conduct (and will be assessed on) their ability to carry out independent research on a topic in Land Law.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
Abbreviations were used in slides/podcasts.
Recommendation
Make clear that abbreviations are part of professional delivery in industry/government. Refer students back to the Study Guide where all common abbreviations to relevant legislation (used in podcasts) are clearly referred to.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback
Feedback
Confusion regarding the need to use contract law and equity to understand Land Law
Recommendation
Make clear in week one that students will not be able to understand the nature of interests in land unless they understand (1) basic principles of contract law (2) basic principles of equity. Reiterate that completing the priestly 11 core is not about learning principles from previous subjects and then forgetting them. Rather, it is about building on each area/block of knowledge to develop a cromprehensive knowledge to be able to understand how all of the topics work together. Make clear that this basic development of knowledge/taxonomies of law applies to study in every Australian Law School.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Explain the conceptual characteristics of land under Australian land law.
  2. Examine the principles and concepts in native title, possession, seisin and title, and the rule against perpetuities.
  3. Analyse and apply the Torrens system of land registration and the impact of e-technology pursuant to the Land Title Act 1994 (Qld).
  4. Analyse and apply the rights in land relating to concurrent ownership, leases, mortgages, and security interests in personal property under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth)


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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4 - Information Literacy • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
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