ASSIGNMENT TWO CASE STUDY
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Unit study package code: BLAW1004 Mode of study: Internal
Tuition pattern summary: Note: For any specific variations to this tuition pattern and for precise information refer to the Learning Activities section.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
This unit does not have a fieldwork component.
Credit Value: 25.0
Pre-requisite units: Nil
Co-requisite units: Nil
Anti-requisite units: Nil
Result type: Grade/Mark
Approved incidental fees: Information about approved incidental fees can be obtained from our website. Visit fees.curtin.edu.au/incidental_fees.cfm for details.
Unit coordinator:
Title: Dr Name: Christian Duperouzel Phone: +618 9266 7105 Email: [email protected] Location: Building: 407 - Room: 325 Consultation times: Monday 10-11am
Teaching Staff:
Administrative contact:
Name: Christian Duperouzel Phone: 08 9266 7105 Email: [email protected]
Unit Outline
BLAW1004 Business Law Trimester 1A, 2018
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Acknowledgement of Country We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous Elders, custodians, their descendants and kin of this land past and present. The Centre for Aboriginal Studies aspires to contribute to positive social change for Indigenous Australians through higher education and research.
Syllabus An introduction to law with a business focus. Students examine the nature and sources of law in Australia. Key aspects of civil law as they relate to business are explored with a particular emphasis on contract law.
Introduction Welcome to Business Law Singapore Campus.
Please read this unit outline carefully as it contains important information.
This unit aims to provide students with an introduction to the legal system and an understanding of how law is relevant in business. In fact, no business transaction can occur without contemplation of the applicable law. The focus of the unit will be on a number of specific areas of the law that arise for consideration in most commercial transactions, whether in Australia or internationally. This unit also teaches students how to construct a coherent and logical legal argument when analysing and solving case studies. We hope you find the unit useful and rewarding.
Unit Learning Outcomes All graduates of Curtin University achieve a set of nine Graduate Attributes during their course of study. These inform an employer that, through your studies, you have acquired discipline knowledge and a range of other skills and attributes which employers would value in a professional setting. Each unit in your course addresses the Graduate Attributes through a clearly identified set of learning outcomes. They form a vital part in the process referred to as assurance of learning. The learning outcomes notify you of what you are expected to know, understand or be able to do in order to be successful in this unit. Each assessment for this unit is carefully designed to test your knowledge of one or more of the unit learning outcomes. On successfully completing all of the assessments you will have achieved all of these learning outcomes.
Your course has been designed so that on graduating you will have achieved all of Curtin's Graduate Attributes through the assurance of learning processes in each unit.
Location: Building: 407 - Room: 325
Learning Management System: Blackboard (lms.curtin.edu.au)
On successful completion of this unit students can: Graduate Attributes addressed
1 Interpret and apply the basic legal rules and principles arising in the Australian legal system
2 Demonstrate an understanding of the principal concepts and sources of law in Australia to identify and analyse legal issues
3 Construct a coherent and logical legal argument using the four step process approach
4 Apply relevant legal concepts and principles to analyse and solve case studies
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Curtin's Graduate Attributes
Learning Activities The tuition pattern is a two hour weekly lecture, supported by a one hour weekly tutorial. The lecture, in which relevant legal concepts and cases will be outlined, also incorporates a 20 minute revision quiz. In the tutorial, students will be required to work through case studies with the assistance of their tutor. This structure gives students the opportunity to learn how to apply relevant legal concepts and principles to analyse and solve case studies and receive feedback from the teaching staff.
Important to note: Tutorials will start in Week 2, and deal with the material covered in the previous week's lecture. Students who wish to receive additional assistance and feedback on the weekly topics covered can email their lecturer or tutor, or alternately, they can post their query to the discussion board on blackboard which will be staffed by tutors. Please allow for up to 48 hours for a response to any discussion board query that you post, although the response time will be shorter around the time that assessments are due.
Learning Resources Essential texts
The required textbook(s) for this unit are:
l Understanding Business Law 3rd Edition (Custom publication for Curtin University: Business Law), 2017, Chatswood: LexisNexis Butterworths. New copies are available from the Co-op Bookshop website. Second hand versions of the text may be available for purchase at the Second Hand Bookshop on campus, or via some resale websites e.g. Gumtree. The weekly E-learning materials that students are to complete in their own time at their convenience are an accompaniment to this textbook. These E-learning materials are located on the Business Law blackboard site (in the relevant week's topic file) and can be completed on a university computer if a student does not have a private internet connection.
(ISBN/ISSN: 9780409343861)
Recommended texts
You do not have to purchase the following textbooks but you may like to refer to them.
l Lambiris, Michael and Griffin, Laura. 2017. First Principles of Business Law. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
(ISBN/ISSN: 9780190304485)
Apply discipline knowledge Thinking skills (use analytical skills to solve problems)
Information skills (confidence to investigate new ideas)
Communication skills Technology skills Learning how to learn (apply principles learnt to new situations) (confidence to tackle unfamiliar problems)
International perspective (value the perspectives of others)
Cultural understanding (value the perspectives of others)
Professional Skills (work independently and as a team) (plan own work)
Find out more about Curtin's Graduate attributes at the Office of Teaching & Learning website: ctl.curtin.edu.au
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Assessment Assessment schedule
Detailed information on assessment tasks
1. Assignment One: Media Report Analysis (20 marks)
Students are required to select a media report from the three reports provided on Blackboard under the assessment folder. Students are required to identify and analyse the legal issues arising in their chosen report through answering a series of questions. Students need to apply a similar approach to that used in the Topic 1 tutorial case study, ‘The Swimming Stadium’, to their chosen media report. Therefore, students will need to use their issue identifying skills to assess and analyse the legal issues that arise in their chosen article.
Word Limit
The assignment should be a minimum of 500 words and not exceed 2000 words. Please provide a word count on your cover sheet. A penalty of 10% will be imposed for every 100 words that exceeds the word limit. The assignment will not be assessed if it exceeds 3000 words and will result in a ZERO mark.
Assignment One must be submitted by 1pm WST on Monday of Week 5 (26 March 2018).
Students' grades and feedback will be provided by way of an audio voice file available on My Grades on Blackboard.
2. Assignment Two: Case study (30 marks)
Students will be provided with a case study and be required to address two legal questions using the four step process. The assignment will require students to solve the legal issues arising in the case study by explaining and applying their knowledge of the legal principles and rules arising in the Australian legal system. A vodcast explaining the four step process has been posted to blackboard (under the 'Assessment' tag) to assist students in completing this assignment.
Please note that the information contained in the course materials (the text book, lecture materials and case summaries on blackboard) are sufficient when completing your assignment. It is not necessary to research beyond these materials for the purpose of completing the assignment.
Word Limit
The assignment should be a minimum of 500 words and not exceed 2500 words. Please provide a word count on your cover sheet. A penalty of 10% will be imposed for every 100 words that exceed
Task Value % Date Due Unit Learning Outcome(s)
Assessed
1
Assignment One 20 percent Week: 5 Day: Monday 26 March Time: 1pm WST
1,2
2 Assignment Two 30 percent Week: 11
Day: Monday 7 May Time: 1pm WST
1,2,3
3
Final Examination 50 percent Week: During the Examination Period Day: TBA Time: TBA
2,3,4
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the word limit. The assignment will not be assessed if it exceeds 3500 words and will result in a ZERO mark.
Assignment Two must be submitted by 1pm WST on the Monday of Week 11 (7 May 2018).
Students' grades and feedback will be provided by way of a rubric available on My Grades on Blackboard.
3. Final Examination (50 marks)
The final examination is a closed book three hour examination. The examination builds on students’ critical thinking skills and discipline specific knowledge learnt in the lectures and tutorials. Students are required to apply relevant legal concepts and principles to analyse and solve case studies.
The final examination is comprised of three parts. Part A: Four step process question (15 marks) Part B: Applied case study (20 marks) Part C: Short answer questions (15 marks)
Students will be provided with further guidance for their preparation for the final examination throughout the semester and during the revision week. In particular, students will be advised of the specific topics each question draws upon prior to the final examination.
Pass requirements
The marks are cumulative, so students do not need to pass each assessment task, but must achieve a total of 50 or more to pass this unit. Detailed information on each assessment item is available on Blackboard in the 'Assessment' folder.
Fair assessment through moderation
Moderation describes a quality assurance process to ensure that assessments are appropriate to the learning outcomes, and that students work is evaluated consistently by assessors. Minimum standards for the moderation of assessments are described in the Assessment and Student Progression Manual, available from policies.curtin.edu.au/findapolicy/
Late assessment policy
This ensures that the requirements for submission of assignments and other work to be assessed are fair, transparent, equitable and that penalties are consistently applied.
1. All student assessments are required to have a due date and time specified on this Unit Outline. 2. Students will be penalised by a deduction of ten percent per calendar day for a late assessment submission
(e.g. a mark equivalent to 10% of the total allocated for the assessment will be deducted from the marked value for every day that the assessment is late). This means that an assessment worth 20 marks will have two marks deducted per calendar day late. Hence if it was handed in three calendar days late and given a mark of 16/20, the student would receive 10/20. An assessment more than seven calendar days overdue will not be marked and will receive a mark of 0.
Assessment extension
A student unable to complete an assessment task by/on the original published date/time (e.g. examinations, tests) or due date/time (e.g. assignments) must apply for an assessment extension using the Assessment Extension form (available from the Forms page at students.curtin.edu.au/administration/) as prescribed by the Academic Registrar. It is the responsibility of the student to demonstrate and provide evidence for exceptional circumstances beyond the student's control that prevent them from completing/submitting the assessment task.
The student will be expected to lodge the form and supporting documentation with the unit coordinator before the assessment date/time or due date/time. An application may be accepted up to five working days after the date or
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due date of the assessment task where the student is able to provide an acceptable explanation as to why he or she was not able to submit the application prior to the assessment date. An application for an assessment extension will not be accepted after the date of the Board of Examiners' meeting.
Extensions of assessment are only granted in unforeseeable extenuating circumstances. The granting of an extension or modification of assessment in accordance with University policy requires appropriate supporting documentation. Extenuating circumstances do NOT include holidays, family celebrations such as weddings, moving house or poor time management. These are not valid reasons and are not accepted as grounds for an extension. The extension period will be a maximum of seven calendar days from the due date and time. The application form for an extension is available through your Oasis account and must be sent to the unit coordinator with supporting documentation e.g. hospital record, statutory declaration etc. Details of any extension granted must be attached to the relevant assignment upon submission. Please contact the unit coordinator regarding an application for extension. It is your responsibility to check due dates.
Deferred assessments
Supplementary assessments
Supplementary assessments, if granted by the Board of Examiners, will have a due date or be held between 16/07/2018 and 27/07/2018 . Notification to students will be made after the Board of Examiners’ meeting via the Official Communications Channel (OCC) in OASIS.
It is the responsibility of students to be available to complete the requirements of a supplementary assessment. If your results show that you have been granted a supplementary assessment you should immediately check OASIS for details.
Reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities/health circumstances likely to impact on studies
A Curtin Access Plan (CAP) is a document that outlines the type and level of support required by a student with a disability or health condition to have equitable access to their studies at Curtin. This support can include alternative exam or test arrangements, study materials in accessible formats, access to Curtin’s facilities and services or other support as discussed with an advisor from Disability Services (disability.curtin.edu.au). Documentation is required from your treating Health Professional to confirm your health circumstances.
If you think you may be eligible for a CAP, please contact Disability Services. If you already have a CAP please provide it to the Unit Coordinator at the beginning of each study period.
Referencing style
The referencing style for this unit is Chicago.
More information can be found on this style from the Library web site: http://libguides.library.curtin.edu.au/referencing.
If your results show that you have been granted a deferred assessment you should immediately check OASIS for details.
Deferred examinations/tests will be held from 16/07/2018 to 27/07/2018 . Notification to students will be made after the Board of Examiners’ meeting via the Official Communications Channel (OCC) in OASIS.
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Privacy As part of a learning or assessment activity, or class participation, your image or voice may be recorded or transmitted by equipment and systems operated by Curtin University. Transmission may be to other venues on campus or to others both in Australia and overseas.
Your image or voice may also be recorded by students on personal equipment for individual or group study or assessment purposes. Such recordings may not be reproduced or uploaded to a publically accessible web environment. If you wish to make such recordings for study purposes as a courtesy you should always seek the permission of those who are impacted by the recording.
Recording of classes or course materials may not be exchanged or distributed for commercial purposes, for compensation, or for any other purpose other than personal study for the enrolled students in the unit. Breach of this may subject a student to disciplinary action under Statute No 10 – Student Disciplinary Statute.
If you wish to discuss this please talk to your Unit Coordinator.
Copyright The course material for this unit is provided to you for your own research and study only. It is subject to copyright. It is a copyright infringement to make this material available on third party websites.
Academic Integrity (including plagiarism and cheating) Any conduct by a student that is dishonest or unfair in connection with any academic work is considered to be academic misconduct. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offences that will be investigated and may result in penalties such as reduced or zero grades, annulled units or even termination from the course. Assessments under investigation will not be given a mark until the matter is concluded. This may result in the unit grade being withheld or a grade of Fail Incomplete (F-IN) until a decision has been made by the Student Disciplinary Panel. This may impact on enrolment in further units/study periods.
Plagiarism occurs when work or property of another person is presented as one's own, without appropriate acknowledgement or referencing. Submitting work which has been produced by someone else (e.g. allowing or contracting another person to do the work for which you claim authorship) is also plagiarism. Submitted work is subjected to a plagiarism detection process, which may include the use of text matching systems or interviews with students to determine authorship.
Cheating includes (but is not limited to) asking or paying someone to complete an assessment task for you or any use of unauthorised materials or assistance during an examination or test.
From Semester 1, 2016, all incoming coursework students are required to complete Curtin’s Academic Integrity Program (AIP). If a student does not pass the program by the end of their first study period of enrolment at Curtin, their marks will be withheld until they pass. More information about the AIP can be found at: https://academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au/students/AIP.cfm
Refer to the Academic Integrity tab in Blackboard or academicintegrity.curtin.edu.au for more information, including student guidelines for avoiding plagiarism.
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Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Expectations Curtin students are expected to have reliable internet access in order to connect to OASIS email and learning systems such as Blackboard and Library Services.
You may also require a computer or mobile device for preparing and submitting your work.
For general ICT assistance, in the first instance please contact OASIS Student Support: oasisapps.curtin.edu.au/help/general/support.cfm
For specific assistance with any of the items listed below, please contact The Learning Centre: life.curtin.edu.au/learning-support/learning_centre.htm
l Using Blackboard, the I Drive and Back-Up files l Introduction to PowerPoint, Word and Excel
Additional information
Guidelines for assignment submission
Students will be required to submit their assignments through the Business Law Blackboard site, which utilises the plagiarism detection program, Turnitin. Instructions on the submission process will be posted to Blackboard at the beginning of semester, including the appropriate way to save your file.
Format of assignments
Assignments cannot be handwritten and must comply with the following format requirements. Assignments which do not conform to these requirements without prior agreement of the unit coordinator, will either be returned to the student unmarked or will have marks deducted:
Document type: Word or pdf (pdf preferred)
Font: Arial or similar font - no smaller than 12 point in size
Pages: Numbered in top or bottom margin
Spacing: Appropriate line spacing and paragraph spacing
Margins: At least 2.5 cm top, left, right & bottom
The document must be checked for spelling and grammar before submission.
Investigating academic misconduct The unit coordinator may require a student to provide an oral justification of, or to answer questions about, any piece of written work submitted in this unit.
Enrolment
It is your responsibility to ensure that your enrolment is correct - you can check your enrolment through the eStudent option on OASIS, where you can also print an Enrolment Advice.
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Student Rights and Responsibilities It is the responsibility of every student to be aware of all relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to their rights and responsibilities as a student. These include:
l the Student Charter l Values and Signature Behaviours l the University's policy and statements on plagiarism and academic integrity l copyright principles and responsibilities l the University's policies on appropriate use of software and computer facilities
Information on all of the above is available through the University's "Student Rights and Responsibilities" website at: students.curtin.edu.au/rights.
Student Equity There are a number of factors that might disadvantage some students from participating in their studies or assessments to the best of their ability, under standard conditions. These factors may include a disability or medical condition (e.g. mental illness, chronic illness, physical or sensory disability, learning disability), significant family responsibilities, pregnancy, religious practices, living in a remote location or another reason. If you believe you may be unfairly disadvantaged on these or other grounds please contact Student Equity at [email protected] or go to http://eesj.curtin.edu.au/student_equity/index.cfm for more information
You can also contact Counselling and Disability services: http://www.disability.curtin.edu.au or the Multi-faith services: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/about_multifaith_services.htm for further information.
It is important to note that the staff of the university may not be able to meet your needs if they are not informed of your individual circumstances so please get in touch with the appropriate service if you require assistance. For general wellbeing concerns or advice please contact Curtin's Student Wellbeing Advisory Service at: http://life.curtin.edu.au/health-and-wellbeing/student_wellbeing_service.htm
Recent unit changes Students are encouraged to provide unit feedback through eVALUate, Curtin's online student feedback system. For more information about eVALUate, please refer to evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/.
Recent changes to this unit include:
Adoption of a customised textbook and supporting materials that allow for a more integrated learning experience for students. A reduction in class sizes to ensure that more individual attention and assistance can be offered to each student.
Continual renewal of the unit materials and curriculum to ensure materials are up to date with significant changes to the law whilst remaining commercially focused.
Changing the tuition pattern from a weekly three hour seminar to a two hour lecture and a one hour tutorial.
Use of audio feedback files and rubrics for assessment tasks have been employed to improve the quality and detail of feedback given.
To view previous student feedback about this unit, search for the Unit Summary Report at https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/student/unit_search.cfm. See https://evaluate.curtin.edu.au/info/dates.cfm to find out when you can eVALUate this unit.
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Program calendar
Week Begin Date
Lecture Pre-readings Tutorial Assessment Due
Orientation 19 February
1. 26 February Introduction: The nature and function of the law
Chapter 1 No tutorial
2. 5 March Sources of law: Legislation and case law
Chapter 2 Introduction: The nature and function of the law
3. 12 March Making a contract Chapter 3 Sources of law: Legislation and case law
4. 19 March Contents of a contract: Expressed terms
Chapter 4 Making a contract
5. 26 March Contents of a contract: Exclusion clauses and implied terms
Chapters 4 & 7 Contents of a contract: Expressed terms
Assignment 1
Monday 26 March 2018 1pm (WST)
6. 2 April Tuition Free Week
7. 9 April Performance and breach of contract
Chapter 6 Contents of a contract: Exclusion clauses and implied terms
8. 16 April Remedies for breach of contract
Chapter 6 Performance and breach of contract
9. 23 April Tuition Free Week
10. 30 April International legal systems
Supplementary materials
Remedies for breach of contract
11.
7 May Liability in negligence
Chapters 14 & 15
International legal systems
Assignment 2
Monday 7 May 2018 1pm (WST)
12. 14 May Business organisations
Chapters 10 & 11 Liability in negligence
13. 21 May Business organisations
Chapters 12 & 13 Business organisations
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14. 28 May Revision Business organisations
15.
4 June Study Week
16 & 17. 11 - 22 June
Examination Period
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