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LA3106 - Company and Partnership Law
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2021 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
4 |
Administered by: |
College of Business, Law & Governance |
This subject provides students with the knowledge of partnership and corporations
law that is required for admission to practice as a legal practitioner in Australia.
Coverage includes the nature and existence of partnerships; partners' duties; partnership
property; relations with outsiders; assignment, retirement, expulsion and dissolution;
and limited partnerships. It also provides detailed treatment of the types and formation
of corporations; the concept of separate legal entity; share capital and membership;
lifting of the corporate veil; basic principles of debt and equity finance (securing
debt and raising capital); replaceable rules, corporate constitution and the statutory
contract; altering the corporate constitution; powers of the board and the general
meeting; meetings and statutory validation; directors' duties; capital maintenance
and insolvent trading; members' remedies; corporate authority and the indoor management
rule; voluntary administration, receivership and liquidations.
Learning Outcomes
- define the formation and operation of partnerships and companies (including limited
partnerships) including the rights, duties and liabilities of partners and those who
deal with them;
- apply knowledge of corporate membership, the process for raising capital, capital
maintenance, insolvent trading, voluntary administration, receivership and liquidation;
- critically explain the relationship between the general meeting, the board and corporate
management (including director's duties and member's remedies);
- evaluate the significance of separate legal entity, authority, the indoor management
rule and situations in which the corporate veil may be lifted.
Subject Assessment
- Written > Examination (centrally administered) - (60%) - Individual
- Oral > Presentation 1 - (10%) - Individual
- Written > Research report - (30%) - Individual.
Prerequisites: |
(LA1105 or LA2011) and (LA1106 or LA2012) |
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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BU2112 BX2112 LA3002 LA3015 LA3016 |
Availabilities
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Cairns,
Study Period 1,
Internal
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Census Date 25-Mar-2021 |
Coordinator: |
Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd |
Lecturers:
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Mr Benjamin Schierhuber, Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd. |
Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this
3
credit point subject is approximately
130 hours.
- 26 hours lectures (didactic or interactive)
- 12 hours tutorials
- assessment and self-directed study
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Townsville,
Study Period 1,
Internal
|
Census Date 25-Mar-2021 |
Coord/Lect: |
Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd. |
Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this
3
credit point subject is approximately
130 hours.
- 26 hours lectures (didactic or interactive)
- 12 hours tutorials
- assessment and self-directed study
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Study Period 1,
External
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Census Date 25-Mar-2021 |
Coord/Lect: |
Assoc. Professor Louise Floyd. |
Workload expectations: |
The student workload for this
3
credit point subject is approximately
130 hours.
- 38 hours online collaboration sessions - Online lectures/tutorials
- assessment and self-directed study
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Method of Delivery: |
WWW - LearnJCU |
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Note:
Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process,
and in case
of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest
official information.