LLB020N204A Law of Property Assessment Coursework Brief 2026

Undergraduate Degree Assessment for students registered with the University of Roehampton

LLB020N204A Assessment Brief

Module code: LLB020N204A
Module title: Law of Property
Module tutor: Cynthia Opoku-Gyamfi
FHEQ Level: Level 5
Assessment release date: 13^th November 2025
Type of assessment: Coursework

Instructions to Candidates

Number of pages and documents

This document, comprising 7 pages, including this page sets out your instructions for the assessment referred to above.

Submission instructions

Assessment Task

(Answer all two parts A and B)
Coursework comprises 100% of the marks for this module.

Part A

In April 2024, Kyle purchased Greenacre from Kana. Greenacre consisted of a large house with a substantial garden and a swimming pool. Kyle sought the advice of a solicitor but felt the consultation fee was too expensive, so she decided to arrange the conveyance privately.

When she moved in, she realised that Kana removed the following items from Greenacre.

• A large observation balloon, which floated about 40 metres above the swimming pool. The balloon provided spectacular views over Greenacre as well as the surrounding countryside in all directions. The balloon had been accessed by a rope ladder and serviced by electricity and water supplies.
• The swimming pool diving board.
• All the carpets in the house, including carpet tiles which had been glued to the floor in the downstairs bathroom; and
• A 72-inch plasma TV which had rested on a tailor-made, wall-mounted bracket in the underground cinema room.

Last month, a local recreation (boxing) club approached Kyle to buy the garden and convert it to a boxing venue. They offered her £100,000 to Kyle which he agreed to. She and the head paint-baller, Kim, the solicitor representing the boxing club had shaken hands on the deal and to confirm their arrangement. Kim had written on the back of an old envelope:

‘This confirms what we agreed on 30th September 2024.’

Both Kyle and Kim both signed the back of the envelope. The paint-ballers have since spent £40,000 digging trenches and erecting shooting platforms but now Kyle has decided that he would rather not have a lot of noisy people running around and shouting on Sunday mornings.

Advise Kyle, critically analysing the legal issues raised by these events and referring to legal principles, case law and statute as appropriate.

Part B

Danielle owns a two-bedroom house in Woodley near West End College. She decides to help her son, Claude, out of his current financial difficulties by letting him use the house to raise income. She gives him a ten-year licence of the house. Claude advertises the house on the notice board in the College bookshop. Lauren and Ian, who are about to start the second year of their fashion degree, sign identical ‘licence’ agreements to occupy the house. The agreement, which is stated to be for ‘two years or until the completion of your degree programme’, contains the following provisions:

a) Half of the total monthly licence fee of £2,000 is payable on the first day of each month;

b) Claude’s son, Mick, may use the sofa bed in the lounge to stay overnight whenever he has to work late in the city.

c) Claude is to retain a set of keys to the house.

d) Claude will arrange for clean towels and bed linen to be delivered to the house once a week.

Claude does not realise that Lauren and Ian are a couple and assumes that they will occupy different bedrooms. In fact, they share the same room. Before signing the agreement, Lauren asks Claude how often Mick is likely to need to use the sofa bed and why he (Claude) needs to retain a set of keys. Claude says that on the rare occasions that Mick would need to stay he would always ask Lauren and Ian first. He also explains that he is retaining a set of keys for the house just in case there is some domestic emergency.

Critically analyse, giving reasons, whether Claude has created a lease or a licence in favour of Lauren and Ian?

REMINDER:

1. Students are expected to uphold the highest standards of academic integrity in the production of their work. This is both an academic and personal skill enabling socially acceptable conduct and aiding the ethical business readiness of a new graduate. They are required to comply with university regulations and codes of practice (available at: https://www.roehampton.ac.uk/current-students/studentregulations/).
2. Academic misconduct can be defined as “an attempt to obtain, obtaining, or assisting another person in obtaining an unfair advantage in an academic assessment.” (Student Code of Conduct, point 3.1.). Specifically, it involves: (a) plagiarism, (b) unauthorised resubmission of previous work (c) falsification, invention or alteration of facts, data, references, etc. (d) collusion with others to gain an unfair advantage (e) other act that undermine the security, integrity or fairness of an assessment. Penalties for breaches of academic integrity apply, most usually by recording a mark of zero.
3. In submitting work for marking the student guarantees it is their work, is original, authentic, fairly and correctly sourced and is plagiarism free. Contravening these rules may result in penalties, as per point 2. Students are allowed to resubmit their work to Turnitin before the assessment deadline to address any issues arising from the initial Turnitin similarity report.
4. The University and Business and Law Faculty encourages all students to seek advice and help in understanding the requirements regarding the assessment process and academic integrity requirements which it entails. The faculty office as well as personal tutors and module tutors may be consulted in this respect, in addition to the specialized student support services. The students for whom English is not their first language, as well as those facing other challenges (including disability) are especially encouraged to seek relevant support.

This Coursework comprises 100% of the marks for this module

Guidance

You are required to:

1. Reference the sources you rely on using the OSCOLA referencing convention.

2. You will be marked down if you refer to non-legal or non-academic sources in your submission. Examples of:
a. Appropriate sources include law text books available in the library and law journal articles from Westlaw and Lexis Nexis;
b. Inappropriate sources include wikipedia.

3. Poor structure, composition or grammar will affect the quality of submission and may even undermine the marker’s ability to comprehend your analysis.

Therefore, your should proof read your essay before you submit it for marking.

Format of your submission

• Include a title page with your submission. The title page must list the following:
• Module code
• Module title
• Module tutor
• Coursework title
• Number of pages submitted
• The word count.

Do not include your name or your student ID number

• Word limit: maximum 3000 words (excluding footnotes and bibliography). You may exceed NOT this word limit.

Footnotes must only be used to provide citations for authorities and for referencing texts and articles. Text included in footnotes in breach of this restriction will be added to the overall word count for the purposes of determining whether the upper limit of 3000 words has been broken.

• Font: Arial, text size 12, line spacing 1.5
• Each page should be numbered
• Referencing is required. You are required to use OSCOLA style citation for consistency

LLB020N204A  Assessment Criteria

1. You should read the assessment criteria that will be used to grade your assessment submission before you begin. The relevant criteria are:

RLS In-Course Assessment and End of Module Examination Criteria

The criteria may be downloaded from the Law Programme Moodle page. The relevant document is listed under the heading ‘Assessment & Feedback Information’.

2. The relative weighting of available marks between the three criteria are:

Total: 100%

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