Overview

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Offerings

FTLEARN-FTL3-MOL-2019-2020
MURDOCH-T1-INT-2021-2025

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in LLB is only available to students in their final 24 points of the LLB
Enrolment in a graduate-level course or enrolment in the LLB(Hons)

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Be able to identify and explain the general framework of Australian health law;

2.

Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss the principles and problems of medical liability;

3.

Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss major regulatory issues pertaining to practitioners in the area of health law, the problem of compulsion in health care in the context of certain treatments or the institutionalization of patients/clients (e.g. mental health); and

4.

Have gained an understanding of and the ability to critically discuss pertinent issues of the law of the regulation of drugs.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit will focus on three main areas of relevant topics in the area of Health Law:

(i) Medical Liability
(ii) Regulatory Issues, covering regulation of practitioners and regulation of pharmaceuticals.
(iii) Consent and compulsion in Health Care, covering issues of consent, where consent is set aside: Mental Health, Vaccinations/treatments/ notifications.