units

LAW7277

Faculty of Law

Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Law
OfferedCity (Melbourne) Trimester 1 2012 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 2 2012 (Day)
City (Melbourne) Trimester 3 2012 (Day)

Notes

For postgraduate Law discontinuation dates, please see http://www.law.monash.edu.au/current-students/postgraduate/pg-disc-dates.html

Synopsis

Internal governance:

  1. Company organs and division of power
  2. Board of directors and the general meeting.
Duties and liabilities of officers:
  1. Overview of directors' duties; duties of care, skill and diligence and the statutory duty to prevent insolvent trading
  2. Duty to act bona fide in the interests of the company as a whole
  3. Duty to exercise powers for proper purposes and to retain discretions
  4. Duty to avoid a conflict between personal interest and duty to the company
  5. Consequences of breach of duty and relief from liability
Members' Remedies:
  1. Overview of shareholders' remedies; shareholders' derivative actions 9.Shareholders' personal actions 10.Winding up and oppression

Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will have:

  1. knowledge and understanding of the internal governance of corporations, directors' duties and members' remedies
  2. knowledge and understanding of legislation and policy in these areas of corporate law
  3. 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
  4. an ability to apply these concepts principles, legislation and policy to hypothetical fact situations
  5. 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%

Chief examiner(s)

Ms Lisa Robinson

Contact hours

2.5 hours per week x 12 weeks

Prerequisites

LAW7212 or LAW7470, LAW7265 or LAW7428 and LAW7429, LAW7267, and LAW7269

Co-requisites

LAW7275