LAWS305-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016

Company Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 22 May 2016

Description

The course aims to provide a sound academic grounding in key areas of company law. It will examine the key topics of company incorporation, separate corporate personality, company constitutions and shareholder agreements, company capacity, legal relationships with third parties, company liability for criminal and civil wrongs, allocation of power within a company, shareholders in general meeting, the board of directors, duties of directors, equity financing, accounts and disclosure, and enforcement.

Learning Outcomes

  • The objectives of the course are to enable students to:
  •  Explain the meaning and significance of selected principles of company and partnership law;
  •  Apply those principles to difficult and controversial issues; and
  •  Consider critically issues of principle and policy issues raised by the present law and its operation in practice.

Prerequisites

(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110

Restrictions

LAWS312

Co-requisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Lynne Taylor

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Compulsory Essay 04 May 2016 30% Essay
Final Examination 70%


The course may be assessed by way of one compulsory essay and a compulsory final examination.

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $759.00

International fee $3,450.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS305 Occurrences

  • LAWS305-16S1 (C) Semester One 2016