Overview
LAWS13009 Corporations Law examines the various business structures available under Australian law, with a particular focus on companies. Topics include partnerships, corporate personality; the incorporation process; the corporate constitution; company contracts; administration of companies and management of the business of companies; duties and liabilities of directors and officers; share capital and membership; members’ remedies; company credit and security arrangements; and winding up of companies. This unit meets the LPAB requirements for company law.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: 48 credit points of law including LAWS11057.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Based on student feedback during tutorials during semester.
Use tutorials to learn note taking and exam technique.
Continue to develop and use problem questions to develop students' capacity to prepare notes for and to sit examinations.
Feedback from SUTE data and email feedback from students.
No other specific feedback - the SUTE data/feedback reflected students' satisfaction with the current format and approach taken in the subject.
Will continue to engage with students to ensure they are happy with the approach during next iteration of the subject in 2026.
Feedback from SUTE data.
Feedback regarding difficulty of providing a legal opinion on content not already covered.
Ensure more announcements (more than three next time) on the fact that the assignment is a research assignment, intended to test students' ability to research a topic in the subject area as part of external accreditation body's requirements. As such, the assignment will necessarily have to cover matters not covered in classes before the due date for the assessment.