LAWS6328: Contract Management

Early feeback task (0%) - This unit includes an Early Feedback Task that is designed to provide students with timely insights into their understanding and engagement with the unit content. The Early Feedback Task in this unit is multiple choice quiz. The task will be available on Canvas from 27 March 2026 6pm and due on 28 March 2026 at 11:59pm, Sydney Australia time. It will be tailored to reflect key concepts from the first day of classes. Students will be provided with immediate automated feedback upon completion of the task. 

Group structured class participation (25%) - Students are allocated to one of four groups and each group is assigned a recent case.  Each group is required to prepare to be on-call for 45 minutes during class: group 1 will be on-call on Day 1, group 2 on Day 2 etc.  Each group is expected to prepare their answers prior to attending class, and then in the class they will have 15 minutes to prepare as a group to respond to the questions.  Pre-class preparation will take several hours and students should start preparing well in advance of the allocated day. On the day, the entire group task will be 15 minutes group discussion, during which time students will be able to discuss with the others in the group the issues arising in the decision and the responses to the questions, and then 30 minutes of the group being asked questions by the unit co-ordinator (in addition to the pre-class preparation).  Each group will be allocated around 10 questions which they are required to answer. The case and associated questions will be available to students once they are allocated into their groups. The assessor may ask other questions in addition to the pre-assigned questions.  To obtain a pass mark or greater, students must participate in the class discussion to demonstrate having read the allocated decision and prepared responses to the questions.  Students will receive an individual mark based on marking rubrics published in Canvas.

2000 word short-release assignment (25%) - the assignment will be a problem-based question, based on the topics in the Reading Guide for Days 1 and 2. The question will be released to students on Canvas at 6pm (Sydney, Australia time) on 28 March 2026 and is due at 11:59pm (Sydney, Australia time) on 12 April 2026. 

4000 word final assignment (50%) – the assignment will be one problem-based question dealing with management of issues that arise under a contract. It will be released to students on Canvas at 6pm (Sydney, Australia time) on 2 May 2026 by 6pm, and due at 11:59pm (Sydney, Australia time) on 24 May 2026.

Note: The lecturer might request for the submission of your pre-submitted draft versions of the assignments. Please retain the draft documents on file.

Word limit penalty: A piece of assessment which exceeds the prescribed word limit will attract a penalty of 10% of the total marks available for the piece of assessment for every 100 words, or part thereof. The total word count for essay and other written assessments will exclude all footnotes and any bibliography (if required), and exclude acknowledgements of assistance from editors, automated writing tools or generative AI (where use is permitted). 

Referencing: The Sydney Law School expects you to use the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (4th edition, 2018) for your footnoting style, although you should confirm this with your lecturer. A link to the library website where this is set out comprehensively is available at Referencing and Citation Styles: AGLC4. 

Special consideration: Successful grants of Special Consideration may involve alternative tasks, as appropriate.  

Assessment requirements to pass a unit of study: A student must make a genuine attempt at all assessment tasks set out in this Unit of Study in order to obtain a Pass mark and grade (or above); otherwise an Absent Fail grade will be recorded as the student’s result for this Unit of Study. Please note that as the EFT is an early diagnostic tool, this task is not included in the final grade for the unit.