Course overview
The course aims to equip students with a fundamental knowledge of how the law impacts business decision-making and operations, and awareness of the range of obligations placed on business. In addition to meeting professional body and legislative requirements, learners are equipped with the knowledge and practical skills they need to ensure that they are able to comply with Australia’s legal and regulatory regimes. The course achieves these outcomes by examining a number of fundamental legal principles that facilitate yet impinge upon business and professional activities and facilitating critical reflection upon the strengths and weaknesses of Australia’s legal and regulatory regimes.
- Introduction, Competition and Consumer Law and Tort
- Contracts and Business legal Compliance Obligations
- Business Organisations and Operations
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the key features of the Australian legal system including major institutions and sources of law and regulation.
- Apply case law to interpret legislation
- Identify and explain the major aspects of property, consumer protection, competition, privacy, and anti-money laundering laws introduced in the course
- Compare and contrast the significant features of how different business organisations are formed and operate.
- Apply commercial and business law introduced in this course to hypothetical scenarios.
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