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AI1523 Compulsory Purchase and Compensation Law 7.5 credits

Information per course offering

Termin

Information for Spring 2025 Start 14 Jan 2025 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
14 Jan 2025 - 16 Mar 2025
Periods
P3 (7.5 hp)
Pace of study

50%

Application code

60518

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

Swedish

Course memo
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Number of places

Places are not limited

Target group
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Planned modular schedule
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Contact

Examiner
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Course coordinator
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Teachers
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Contact

Jenny Paulsson, 08-790 6661, jenny.paulsson@abe.kth.se

Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus AI1523 (Spring 2021–)
Headings with content from the Course syllabus AI1523 (Spring 2021–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course deals with legal frameworks that give public institutions, and sometimes also private people, the right to acquire land through compulsory purchase in different situations. The following main aspects will be dealt with in the course.

  • Fundamental motives to permit compulsory purchase. Different situations where compulsory purchase can be realised. Value concepts and their relevance in cases of compensation. Profit sharing versus compensation for damage.
  • Principles for the permission process. Applicable legislation in different situations. Permission process in different systems of regulation.
  • Compensation rules in the Expropriation Act, Planning and Building Act, cadastral legislation, environmental and nature conservation legislation.
  • Valuation problems in different compensation situations. Methods for estimation of compensation for encroachment and compulsory purchase.

Intended learning outcomes

The overall aim of the course is to give understanding of rules for the permission process as well as which compensation that should be paid when compulsory purchase or other limitation of dispositions of land and real property is realised. At the end of the course the students are expected to be able to:

  • Explain why compulsory purchase can be legitimised.
  • Describe the contents of and in what situations different types of law shall be used.
  • Explain different value concepts for real property.
  • Describe the legislation's different compensation principles.
  • Apply different compensation rules and principles in practical cases.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

Completed courses:

AI1520 Planning, Building and Environmental Law in Property Development, and
AI1519 Land Law 

Equipment

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Literature

Sjödin, E., Ekbäck, P., Kalbro, T. & Norell, L. Markåtkomst och ersättning (Norstedts juridik, latest edition).

Additional course literature to be announced when the course starts.

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examination

  • TEN2 - Exam, 4.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
  • ÖVN1 - Exercises, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Other requirements for final grade

Pass written examination and excercises.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

Main field of study

Technology

Education cycle

First cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Jenny Paulsson, 08-790 6661, jenny.paulsson@abe.kth.se