LAW7277 - Advanced corporations law
6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate Faculty of Law
Leader(s): Carmel Mulhern
Offered
City (Melbourne) Trimester 2 2009 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 3 2009 (Day)
Synopsis
Internal governance:
- Company organs and division of power
- board of directors and the general meeting. Duties and liabilities of officers:
- Overview of directors' duties; duties of care, skill and diligence and the statutory duty to prevent insolvent trading
- Duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company as a whole
5.Duty to exercise powers for proper purposes and to retain discretions
6.Duty to avoid a conflict between personal interest and duty to the company: 7. Consequences of breach of duty and relief from liability
Members' Remedies: 8.Overview of shareholders' remedies; shareholders' derivative actions 9.Shareholders' personal actions 10.Winding up and oppression
Objectives
Students who successfully complete this course will have:
- knowledge and understanding of the internal governance of corporations, directors' duties and members' remedies;
- knowledge and understanding of legislation and policy in these areas of corporate law;
- an ability to think critically about the impact of these concepts, principles, legislation and policy on the social and economic context in which they operate;
- an ability to apply these concepts principles, legislation and policy to hypothetical fact situations; and
- the opportunity to conduct independent research in corporate law and for the results of that research to form a substantial proportion of the assessment for the subject.
Assessment
Assignment: 40%
Examination: 60%
Contact hours
2 hour seminar per week x 12 weeks
13 October 2017
25 August 2024