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Unit Summary
Pre-requisites
Must have completed or be currently enrolled in LAW00131 Business Law OR LEGL1003 - Introduction to Business Law OR LEGL2007 - Principles of Contract Law
Anti-requisites
Not available for students admitted to an LLB course.
Unit aim
Provides the opportunity to research and analyse the legal and regulatory framework governing partnerships and companies in the Australian context. Key legal principles will be explored with particular reference to such topics as the development of company and partnership law, types of companies, rights of members, responsibilities and duties of company officers, takeovers, and corporate insolvency.
Unit content
Topic 1: Partnership
Topic 2: The Australian Constitution and corporate law and the administration of corporate law
Topic 3: The creation of a company: Types of companies, promotion, formation and the company’s constitution
Topic 4: The capacity of the company and its agents and the rights of its members
Topic 5: Management
Topic 6: Financing and corporation
Topic 7: Takeovers
Topic 8: External administration
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of the underlying themes and issues and the key legal principles relating to partnership law and/or corporate law |
| 2 | demonstrate the capacity to apply legal reasoning and research to generate appropriate responses to legal problems in the partnership and/or corporate law contexts |
| 3 | demonstrate the capacity to apply critical judgment including analysis, reasoning, and appropriate directed research to partnership and/or corporate law topics |
| 4 | demonstrate an ability to learn and work independently including the capacity to access, manage and evaluate sources of information relevant to partnership and corporate legal issues and to communicate appropriately and effectively, expressed in well-written, clear and logical language that is supported with appropriate references. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the underlying themes and issues and the key legal principles relating to partnership law and/or corporate law
- demonstrate the capacity to apply legal reasoning and research to generate appropriate responses to legal problems in the partnership and/or corporate law contexts
- demonstrate the capacity to apply critical judgment including analysis, reasoning, and appropriate directed research to partnership and/or corporate law topics
- demonstrate an ability to learn and work independently including the capacity to access, manage and evaluate sources of information relevant to partnership and corporate legal issues and to communicate appropriately and effectively, expressed in well-written, clear and logical language that is supported with appropriate references.
Prescribed texts
- Students must acquire or have regular and reliable access to: Lawbook Co., 2020, Corporations Legislation, Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9780455501581.
- Students must acquire or have regular and reliable access to: Yogaratnam, J & Xynas, L, 2016, Corporations Law in Principle, 10th edn, Thomson Reuters, Sydney, NSW. ISBN: 9780455237961.