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Australian Company Law
Postgraduate | RMI-OJD210 | 2019
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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.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- Subject may require attendance
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
FEE-HELP available
Australian Company Law
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject you will be able to:
- demonstrate an advanced and integrated understanding of corporate law
- analyse and research complex problems relating to corporate law and make reasoned and appropriate choices amongst alternatives
- demonstrate sophisticated cognitive and creative skills in approaching legal issues relating to corporate law and generate appropriate responses
- show effective, appropriate and persuasive communication skills for a professional audience.
- Introduction
- Partnerships & Fiduciaries
- Company History, Theory and CSR: Political and Ethical Dimensions
- Corporate Personality, Regulatory Framework
- Management of Companies
- Directors
- Directors and director's duty
- Members Rights and Remedies
- Company finance
- Fund-raising
- Administration
This subject is an examination of the law of corporations. It begins with an overview of various business organisations and then focuses exclusively on companies. The subject covers the corporate regulatory system, incorporation and its implications, corporate organs and corporate governance, directors’ rights and duties, shareholders’ rights and remedies, and insolvency.
- Case Brief (10%)
- Open Book Invigilated Exam (50%)
- Memorandum of Law (40%)
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Entry requirements
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Prior study
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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