Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.

This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.

Fit to Sit Model

Macquarie University operates under a ‘Fit to Sit’ model. This means that in sitting an exam and/or in-class test or otherwise submitting an assessment (including an online quiz), a student declares themselves fit to do so. Therefore, if a student is feeling unfit to sit the exam or test, or otherwise submit the assessment (as the case may be), they should not do so.

If a student sits an exam or test, or otherwise submits an assessment, knowing that they are unfit to do so, they will not be granted Special Consideration. It is the responsibility of the student to determine whether they are fit to sit an examination or test or otherwise submit an assessment, or whether a Special Consideration application should be submitted.

A student’s sitting an examination or test or otherwise submitting an assessment will not preclude the student from being granted Special Consideration if the student can demonstrate that:

• they were unfit to make reasonable judgement on their fitness to undertake the assessment, due to mental illness or other exceptional circumstances;

• they were taken ill during the assessment (in the case of an examination or test); or

• other exceptional circumstances beyond their control vitiated the Fit to Sit declaration.

Prescribed Texts 

J Gooley, P Radan & I Vickovich, Principles of Australian Contract Law, 5th ed, LexisNexis, Sydney, 2021 

J Gooley, P Radan & I Vickovich, Principles of Australian Contract Law: Cases & Materials, 5th ed, LexisNexis, Sydney, 2021

Notes and other additional materials available on iLearn and Leganto.

Recommended Texts

J W Carter, Contract Law in Australia, 7th ed, LexisNexis, 2018

N Seddon & R Bigwood, Cheshire & Fifoot Law of Contract, 11th ed, LexisNexis, 2017

J D Heydon, Heydon on Contract, Thompson Reuters, 2019

J Robertson & A Paterson, Principles of Contract Law, 6th ed, Thompson Reuters, 2020.

LECTURE SCHEDULE

Session 1, 2023