School Of Built EnvironmentProfessional Practice and Building LawWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 301104.3
Discipline: BUILDING SURVEYING
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in the Master or Graduate Diploma in Building Surveying; Master or Graduate Diploma in Bushfire Protection; Master or Graduate Diploma in Fire Safety Engineering or Master of Architecture (Urban Transformation).
Students enrolled in the Master or Graduate Diploma in Building Surveying must have successfully completed 40 credit points prior to enrolling in this unit
About this Unit
The basis of this unit is to ensure students become accustomed to reading and interpreting building and related laws. The unit provides students with background knowledge of the negligence, administrative law, life safety, proportional liability, contracts and statutory interpretation as it applies to architecture, building surveying, fire engineering and bushfire protection. The unit studies the codes of professional conduct, ethics, conflict of interest and the rules of evidence within the legal constraints when acting as certifiers and or experts. The jurisdictional requirements for certification are considered and assessed.
These professions can act as expert witnesses and consequently need to understand codes of professional conduct, ethics, conflict of interest and the rules of providing expert evidence. In doing so, they are potentially required to brief solicitors or other legal professionals and will ultimately have a duty to the court or tribunal.