Legal Rights and Responsibilities

Overview

With links to construction companies worldwide, the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment is key to supporting your progress to senior management.

You may have experience of construction legal processes, but can you apply appropriate legal decision making? A course in legal rights and responsibilities will prepare you for any challenge.

After successfully completing this course in Legal Rights and Responsibilities at Nottingham Trent University Online   you will be able to:

• critically review the key elements of the English legal system, including the identification and application of recognised legal sources and criminal and civil liability
• discuss, analyse, critically evaluate and apply key torts – including negligence, occupier’s liability and nuisance to construction projects

• discuss, analyse, critically evaluate and apply the key principles of dispute resolution, including court action, arbitration, adjudication, mediation and conciliation as they impact on construction disputes.

How you’re taught

Our eight-week CPD construction classes are 100% online, giving you the flexibility and convenience to study around your work schedule and personal commitments.

You’ll learn through ‘Engage’, which is our powerful, easy-to-use Learning Management System. This brings the course material to life, while offering you access to the same challenging curriculum, award-winning lecturers and support services as our campus-based degrees.

Best of all, because online learning is truly global, it brings you into close contact with a community of like-minded learners from all corners of the world.