HD 2024 Corporations Law Scaffold (Comprehensive, easy to follow)

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High quality Corporations law (LAWS2014/LAWS5014) notes for the University of Sydney. I used these notes to achieve a High Distinction 86 overall. These notes cover the substantive topics in the course (as they existed in 2024): 0: Formation of a company : Ways of doing business : Business Structures : Registration of Companies (Chapter 2A) : Powers of a company : Types of Companies 1: Consequences : What courts have jurisdiction : Civil and Criminal sanctions under Corporations Act : Civil Penalties : ASIC/wronged parties’ powers wrt to civil penalties : Asic powers 2A: Corporate fundraising Generally : Debt and Equity : Debt : Equity 2B: Corporate Fundraising PQ Start here! : Is the security regulated or unregulated? : Regulated Fundraising (Chapter 6D) : Unregulated Fundraising (Chapter 7) 3: Corporate Personality and Limited Liability : Separate Legal Entity and Limited Liability : Shifting Liability/veil piercing 4A: Corporate Constitution : Creation : Contents : Amending : Effect 4B: Corporate Decision Making : Separation of decision-making organs : Board of Directors : Members in a general meeting : Duomatic/unanimous assent principle (general law) : Circulating resolutions (without meetings) 5: Company Meetings : Directors’ Meetings (Board Meetings) : Members’ Meetings 5B: Directors & Officers : Directors : Officers 6: Corporate Attribution and Liability : Liability in Contract Indoor management rule : Liability in Tort : Liability in Criminal Law : Directors’ and Officers’ Duties : Duty of Care, Skill, and Diligence : Opening sentences : General law : Defences : Consequences : Duty to Act in Good Faith for the Benefit of the Company as a Whole, and for a Proper Purpose : Statute : Test (both general law and statute) : Defences : Consequences : No Conflict and No Profit Rules : Statute : Equity : Consequences : Related Party Transactions : Insolvent Trading : Test : Defences : Consequences 9: Members’ Remedies : Minority Oppression : Just and Equitable Winding Up : Statutory Derivative Action