Introduction to law

Reflective Journal

            This module will provide students with an understanding of the Malaysia Legal System, and basic concepts of the common law including sources of law, public law, private law (torts, contract, and trusts), precedent and to the relationship between the common law and statute. The approach to
the various topics will be divided into theoretical issues and practice and procedure. The theoretical issues will include the study of an in depth substantive area of Law such as: the introduce to Malaysia legal system, the tort of tort, and law of contract.Students will become familiar with legal language and literature in addition to devoting considerable time to the background study of individual cases and examples.

            The most efficient way for students to understand the principle of law is provided a lot of cases which easy to understand to them and to do their research on this topic. The lecturer provided test after a certain period to test on our understanding on that certain topic. This is a module which need to memorize a lot of information. As a Malaysian, we need to know the system of law in our country. when we involved in breach contract, we can know clearly what rights we have and what damages should be claimed in a breach contract.

            Quantity surveying professional also need to know how to make and legal, binding contract. An illegal, unbinding contract cannot carry any legal action towards the breach parties in the contract. Thus, we need to have some awareness on it and to avoid something similar happened in future. We need to aware that the other parties can sue us on which area of law.