Comprehensive Study Notes for Corporations Law (LAWS2014)

Description

Comprehensive and well-organised notes based on lectures, textbook and readings. Received a Distinction grade for the course. The content of the notes are as follows: -Class 1: Introduction: history and theory; regulatory overview -Class 2: Company formation; business structures and types of companies -Class 3: Corporate fundraising: debt and equity -Class 4: Corporate insolvency: overview of Ch 5; winding up and statutory demands -Class 5: Corporate personality and limited liability -Class 6: Corporate personality and limited liability -Class 7: The Corporate constitution -Class 8: Corporate decision-making organs -Class 9: Member’s meetings -Class 10: General law liability in contract and tort -Class 11: Statutory civil liability -Class 12: Corporate criminal liability -Class 13: Directors’ and officers’ duties I: duty of good faith and for a proper purpose -Class 14: Directors’ and officers’ duties II: conflicts and secret profits -Class 15: Directors’ and officers’ duties III: conflicts (continued); statutory regulation of conflicts; related-party transactions -Class 16: Directors’ and officers’ duties IV: the duty of care, skill and diligence -Class 17: The duty to avoid insolvent trading -Class 18: Members’ rights and remedies 1 -Class 19: Members’ rights and remedies 2