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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.
The objectives of the company law course are to enable you to:Explain the meaning and significance of selected company law principlesIdentify and articulate issues arising in a multi-issue company law problemApply legal reasoning to generate suitable responses to issues arising in a multi-issue company law problem and, if appropriate, make a reasoned choice amongst alternative responses and/or exercise some professional judgment.Locate, evaluate and synthesise information from a range of primary and secondary sources relevant to a given research topic.Critically examine issues of principle and policy raised by New Zealand’s company law framework and its operation in practice.Produce a written opinion that follows the conventions set out in the New Zealand Law Style Guide.Reflect on the use of the limited liability company as a Māori organisational structure.Identify and reflect on global influences on New Zealand company law.Work independently and manage your time in order to meet course deadlines.
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:
Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award
Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110
LAWS312
LAWS202-LAWS206
Lynne Taylor
Assessment details of this course have yet to be finalised, but may include a compulsory assignment, an online quiz and a final examination.
Watson, S & Taylor, L; Corporations Law in New Zealand ; Thomson Reuters, 2018.
Companies Act 1993
Domestic fee $806.00
International fee $3,775.00
* 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 .