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LAWS20059 Corporations and Business Structures
Corporations and Business Structures
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General Information

Overview

This unit will provide you with a comprehensive study of the law of business structures, with a particular focus on company and securities industry law. Topics include partnerships, trusts and other organisational structures, the effects of incorporation, the corporate constitution, registration requirements, prospectuses and share issues, administration of companies, raising finance, directors, shareholders, meetings, external administration and winding up, takeovers, special types of companies, and market regulation. If you have successfully completed the unit LAWS20029 you should not enrol in this unit.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate
Unit Level: Level 9
Credit Points: 6
Student Contribution Band: 10
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: LAWS20058

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 - 2025

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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).

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Class and Assessment Overview

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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

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Improve the unit expectations and requirements

Recommendation

Unit expectations and requirements will be made clearer using Moodle, live workshops and overall design of the unit.

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Improve student feedback on the assessments

Recommendation

Feedback on the assessments to the students will be improved and more comprehensive feedback to be given to them.

Feedback from Student Feedback

Feedback

unit to be more organised and improving the quality of the quiz questions.

Recommendation

Feedback considered to further improve the learning content of the unit. This feedback will be considered and unit learning materials to be improved from T1 2024.

Unit Learning Outcomes

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Textbooks and Resources

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