LAWS305-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015

Company Law

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 13 July 2015
End Date: Sunday, 15 November 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 24 July 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 9 October 2015

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 17 Aug 2015 30% Essay
Optional Essay 21 Sep 2015 30%
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 $737.00

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

  • LAWS305-15S2 (C) Semester Two 2015