Course results for RMIT University Postgraduate Business law Subjects

Immerse yourself in the Competition and Consumer Law Act, Australian consumer law and the role, powers and functions of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Evaluate various legal remedies available for breaches of the legislation. 

Consider the principles of insolvency on both corporate and personal levels. Immerse yourself in the Corporations Act and the Bankruptcy Act. Determine the role of trustees and administrators. Look for areas where legal reform might be required.

Delve into the law of corporations. Understand the difference between businesses and companies, and study regulations, incorporation and its implications, governance, shareholders' rights and remedies, directors’ rights and duties and insolvency. 

Be introduced to the fundamental common law principles and statutory provisions of assessable income and allowable deductions in relation to personal income and business affairs. Analyse at length capital gains tax and fringe benefits tax.

Examines what ‘property’ is and what rights property ‘ownership’ creates. Interrogate the concepts of possession and title, proprietary interests, legal and equitable interests, servitudes and security interests, co-ownership rules and remedies. 

Add to your contract law knowledge with your study of vitiating factors including misinformation, abuse of power and illegality, and the related concepts of equitable estoppel and restitution. Then explore ways contracts may be legally discharged.

Absorb the fundamental principles of contract law by examining contracts (agreement, form or consideration, formalities, privity and capacity), contents and construction, express and implied terms, and excluding or limiting terms.