Diploma in Legal Studies City Colleges
Price: USD 1,159
  • Duration: 10 Weeks

Course details

Overview

Know your rights and use the law as a sword and a shield.

  • What can I do about neighbours trespassing, blocking my light, or making too much noise?
  • What’s my comeback against a dodgy-builder, sneaky bank charges, or the travel agent who sold me a holiday from hell?
  • My wife thought nothing of a fall she had in a shop, but her ankle never healed right and now it’s a year later. Can we do anything?
  • Can’t I repost any gossip I like online about a foreign celebrity?
  • How do I go about copyrighting/patenting my work?

Litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and compliance will all be covered, as will access to legal advice and aid and how to consult legal resources.

The rich stories behind the headlines and the gossip.

  • What’s going on with the Quinn case and just what is “contempt of court”?
  • Why don’t convicts receive “tougher” sentences and why doesn’t “life” mean life?
  • What does all that legal Latin actually mean?
  • When the news says an accused cannot be named “for legal reasons”, what are those legal reasons?
  • Is an oral contract legally binding?
  • What’s going on behind closed doors in the family courts?

Outline

  • Week 1: Sources: Where law comes from.
  • Week 2: Systems: Tribunals, courts and the professions.
  • Week 3: Remedies. Timeline of a Litigation. Enforcement.
  • Week 4: Criminal Law: Murder, rape… AND the exciting stuff.
  • Week 5: Evidence and Sentencing: Technicalities and leniency.
  • Week 6: Consumer Protection and Contract Law.
  • Week 7: Business Law: Liability. Intellectual Property. Corporate Law.
  • Week 8: Tort Law: Neighbours, nuisance and personal injury.
  • Week 9: Law in the Headlines.
  • Week 10: Reform. Comparative and Constitutional Law
Updated on 08 November, 2015

About City Colleges

We_They represents a completely new approach to third-level professional education and examination preparation. Students are offered superb tuition, innovative and flexible study modes, the best and most up-to-date study materials and a relentless commitment to personal attention.

Some of Ireland’s leading lecturers in the areas of Professional Law and Professional Accountancy, Childcare, Business & Computing, and Psychology have come together to offer students a different kind of educational experience, one where the learner’s needs are paramount and his/her expectations are constantly surpassed.

The We_They Group delivers programmes from two venues in Dublin (City Centre and Templeogue), and online throughout the country.

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