Latest HD Corporations Notes (incl. latest 2026 cases)

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These are my Corporations Law notes, fully updated for 2026 course What’s in them All 12 lectures, in the same order as the 2026 Learning Guide (list below) Each topic follows the same flow: the section, what it means, the leading cases with pinpoints, then how it applies on the facts. Good for an open-book exam where you need to find things fast The required cases are covered, including the newer ones older notes on here won’t have What’s been updated - ASIC v Bekier [2026] FCA 196 (the Star Entertainment case): why the CEO and General Counsel breached s 180(1) but the non-executive directors didn’t, and who bears the onus under the business judgment rule - Rukhadze v Recovery Partners [2025] UKSC 10 on the no-profit rule Virtual and hybrid meetings and electronic notice (the 2022 amendments), plus electronic and split execution under s 127 - Current small proprietary company thresholds (many older notes still have the pre-2019 figures) - 2019 maximum civil penalties, the s 254T dividend test, and the limits on ratification (Forge, Furs v Tomkies) Colour coded so you can find things fast in the exam Plum italics = case names Navy = legislation Teal = key principles Red = the things you can’t afford to get wrong Topics 1. Introduction to Company Law 2. Incorporation, Corporate Personality and Veil Piercing 3. The Constitution and Allocation of Power 4. Meetings and Decision-Making 5. Directors and Officers (incl. de facto and shadow directors) 6. Corporate Contracting and Agency (ss 127–129) 7 .Corporate Liability and Attribution 8. Duty of Care and the Business Judgment Rule 9. Conflicts, Profits and Related Party Transactions 10. Good Faith and Proper Purpose 11. Insolvent Trading and Consequences of Breach 12. Minority Shareholder Remedies