School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Sport and Leisure Law
  • Unit Code

    SPM3113
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Clare Jing Ni TAI

Description

This unit introduces students to legal concepts and processes and prepares them to identify and analyse a range of core legal problems of relevance to sport, recreation and event management. This preparation will allow students to conduct their affairs and professional dealings with due diligence in light of the legal obligations and requirements relevant to their sport, recreation and event activities.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed a minimum of 60 credit points.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SPM5600

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discern relevant legal issues and business ethics in sport, recreation and event management case studies.
  2. Assess the legal obligations and responsibilities, and business ethics considerations of a professional employed in the sport, recreation and event industries.
  3. Communicate legal and business ethics issues, relevant to the sport, recreation and event industries, clearly in both written and oral formats, using relevant technology.

Unit Content

  1. The Australian legal system.
  2. Legal nature of sporting organisations.
  3. Contract law and sport and leisure.
  4. Negligence in sport and leisure.
  5. Liquor and gaming.
  6. Sporting tribunals.
  7. Risk management, insurance and working with children.
  8. Criminal law and sport and leisure.
  9. Employment and restraint of trade.
  10. Integrity issues and ethics.
  11. Discrimination, athlete reputation and alternative dispute resolution.
  12. Marketing and intellectual property.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral Presentation 25%
Case StudyCase Study 35%
AssignmentMajor Assignment 40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationOral Presentation 25%
Case StudyCase Study 35%
AssignmentMajor Assignment 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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