Week 8 Session: Who pays
Working through three fictional strike scenarios to determine who plausibly pays, and on what basis.
12 April 2027
Before the session#
Read the three fictional cases (A, B and C) and the property-damage / personal-injury table in this week’s lecture.
In the session — “The Invoice Allocation Hearing”#
| Step | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 min | Recap the NSW s45 actual-knowledge standard and the property/injury table as a group. |
| 2 | 10 min | Small groups are each assigned one case (A, B or C) and determine who plausibly pays, citing the specific clause, scheme or legal standard that applies. |
| 3 | 10 min | Each group presents its reasoning to a group that worked a different case. |
| 4 | 10 min | Cross-examine: the listening group asks what additional evidence would change the presenting group’s answer. |
| 5 | 10 min | Cases are reassigned with the new complication raised in cross-examination added; groups re-answer quickly. |
| 6 | 5 min | Write the Invoice Allocation Memo (see below). |
Invoice Allocation Memo (formative, not a final-project attachment)#
One paragraph per case (A, B, C): who plausibly pays, the specific basis (clause, scheme, or standard), and your confidence in that answer given what evidence exists. This is a formative output for this week’s activity only.
Afterwards#
Keep your notes on what evidence each case actually turned on — that distinction between what happened and what could be proven to have happened is exactly what Week 9’s reporting-obligations material builds on.
Reminder: Assignment 1 (literature review and hotspot analysis, 40% of the unit, marked against two weighted criteria) is due today at 12:00, 2027-04-12. This session doesn’t change that deadline or add anything to its spec.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you can state how fault is typically assessed in a wildlife-strike claim, citing the specific clause or standard that applies
- you can explain why a rental agreement treats a strike differently from an owned-vehicle policy
Teaching team
- Desmond Okafor — tutor