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This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

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AREA:

Curtin Law School

CREDITS:

25.0

CONTACT HOURS:

3.0

TUITION

The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide

PATTERNS:

only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.

LECTURE:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

TUTORIAL:

1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly

EQUIVALENT(S):

300676 (v.4) BLW21 Company Law for Business or any previous version

ANTI

2844 (v.6) Law (Corporation) 224 or any previous version

REQUISITE(S):
PREREQUISITE(S):

11011 (v.5) Business Law 100 or any previous version

UNIT

The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit

REFERENCES,

outline.

TEXTS,
OUTCOMES AND
ASSESSMENT
DETAILS:
SYLLABUS:

The unit aims to provide students with a solid foundation of fundamental principles of company law. Topics
include: the context of company law, the role and functions of the Australian Securities and Investments
Commission, types of business structures, incorporation and registration, the doctrine of legal personality,
corporate fund raising and share capital, legal rules relating to shares and dividends, the internal
management of companies, powers and duties of various stakeholders, rights and remedies of members,
company insolvency and deregistration.

FIELD OF

090900 Law (Narrow Grouping)

EDUCATION:
RESULT TYPE:

Grade/Mark

Availability
YEAR

LOCATION

PERIOD

INTERNAL

PARTIALLY

AREA

CENTRAL

FULLY

ONLINE

EXTERNAL

EXTERNAL

ONLINE

INTERNAL
2014

Bentley Campus

Summer School

2014

Bentley Campus

Semester 1

2014

Bentley Campus

Semester 1

2014

Bentley Campus

Semester 2

2014

Bentley Campus

Semester 2

2014

Sydney Campus

Trimester 1A

2014

Sydney Campus

Trimester 2A

2014

Sydney Campus

Trimester 3A

2014

Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius

Semester 1

2014

Miri Sarawak Campus

Summer School

2014

Miri Sarawak Campus

Semester 1

2014

Miri Sarawak Campus

Semester 2

2014

Singapore Campus

Trimester 1A

2014

Singapore Campus

Trimester 2A

2014

Singapore Campus

Trimester 3A

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regula
participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
External
Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the
course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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