Key words
Civil Liability - Social Legislation, IWETO-code: S130 Civil Law Individuals, S143 Social Law
Objectives
Section: Civil Liability:- Obtaining insight in civil liability
- Being able to distinguish the various types of liability and gaining insight in the concurrence and coexistence of them
- Get acquainted with and learn to apply the elements of the fault version
- Gaining insight in the causality between fault and damage, getting acquainted with the theory of equivalence and being able to apply it in concrete cases
- Gaining insight in the different sorts of compound liability
- Get acquainted with the concepts damage and the various sorts of damage
- Get acquainted with the various methods of capitalization and being able to use them in order to determine the compensation in concrete cases
Section: Social Legislation: - Making students familiar with the quickly evolving evolution and continuous adjustments in this branch of the law
- Obtaining knowledge, insight and job-related competencies in the social legislation
- Ability to interpret texts concerning subjects that are social lawfully, ability to formulate limited legal advices, ability to apply the theory in simple practical cases
- The education has to be aimed at lifelong learning
Topics
Section: Civil Liability:
The study of civil liability consists of four parts:- Part 1: types of liability: objective, fault-, civil, contractual, extra-contactual, criminal liability, concurrence and coexistence of different types of liability
- Part 2: simple liability: unlawful act, accountability, circumstances beyond one's control, acceptance of risks, conditions of indemnification, causality, science of equivalence.
- Part 3: compound liability: different types of compound liability, liable individuals, object of their liability and nature of the presumption
- Part 4: damage and compensation: different sorts of damage, compensation of the damage, methods of capitalisation
Section: Social Legislation:
Collective industrial relations
The employment contract:- Experimental stipulation
- Suspension of the performing of the employment contract
- Ending of the employment contract
- Temporary labour
- Employment contract for part-time labour
Legislation of labour
Social security: general organisation and overview of the various branches.
Prerequisites
No specific prescience required.
Final Objectives
Knowledge
Job-related (specific):- Knowledge of the social legislation
- Knowledge of the specific legislation and regulation on the offered products of insurance
- Knowledge of the professional fiscal, social, economic and legal literature
- Knowledge of the carriers of information and courts that collect information: libraries, multimedia
- Knowledge of the products of insurance, their possibilities and their limitations
- Knowledge of the evolutions in own fields of study
- Knowledge of the technical terminology
- Knowledge of the professional unions and organisations
Skills
General:- Thinking and reasoning power
- Being critical
- Work independently
- Updating knowledge
- Consulting sources· Acquiring and assimilating information
Job-related (general):- Organising (analysing, outlining and drawing up a hierarchy) of information
- Ability to interpret and apply job-related guidelines
- Ability to organise both one's own work as the work organisation
- Think logically
- Insight in complex situations
Job-related (specific):- Compare the products and give advice in compliance with the economic, legal, fiscal and social situation of the client
- Follow the quickly evolving legislation in the field of social law, insurances, tax law and law and check whether this information is correct, complete and up-to-date
- Translate texts of a law into ready-to-use information
- Collect, process, lay up and use relevant information
- Ability to mark out the liabilities of both private individuals as companies
- Have a thorough command of the basic principles of the social legislation
Attitudes
General:- Sense of responsibility
- Sense of cooperation
- Client-oriented
- Being critical
Job-related (general):- Coordination with others
- Result-oriented
- Working systematically
- Inquisitiveness, updating knowledge continuously
- Independence - ability to work independently
Job-related (specific):- Sense for initiative
- Ability to handle information in the field of economy and law
- Being selective in that information
- Keep up the professional literature
- Willingness to go deeply into a problem
- Willingness to gain advice yourself
- Being critical towards one's own conclusions
- Accuracy
Materials used
Civil Liability:
syllabus
Social Legislation:
handbook
Study costs
Civil Liability:
syllabus at unit price determined under Hogeschool rules (maximum of 20 euro)
Social Legislation:
handbook (about 25 euro)
Study guidance
The student can ask the lecturer individual questions.
Teaching Methods
- Lectures
- Question-and-answer
- Exercises
Assessment
Final judgement:- Section 1 Civil Liability: 50% of the total mark
- Section 2 Social Legislation: 50% of the total mark
Civil Liability:- First exam session: 100% written exam
- Second exam session: 100% written exam
Social Legislation- First exam session: 100% oral exam
- Second exam session: 100% oral exam
Students only enrolled for taking the exams:- First and second exam session: ditto regular students
Students who have not passed in the first exam session, but got a score of at least 10 on 20 for one of the parts, are not obliged to redo this part in the second exam session of the same year. They, however, have to take the exam on the parts where they had less than 10 on 20, if they do not do this they are listed as being absent for the whole course.
Lecturer(s)
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