Assoc Professor Christopher Symes

Christopher.f.symes@adelaide.edu.au

Phone 83134452

Ligertwood Building Lecture theatre L1

Second floor

Wednesday 5pm-8pm


Lectures will be held each week.

 Whilst most lectures will be recorded in this course, it is a decision of individual lecturers as to whether or not, and which parts of lectures, they record. Recording of lectures is not provided as a replacement for attendance at lectures generally, and students should not arrange their timetable or other commitments on the basis that any or all lectures in this course will be recorded wholly or in part. If there any queries about this, please contact the Course Coordinator.

• To further the student’s knowledge and understanding of business law and regulation
• To further the student’s ability to understand, analyse and solve practical issues and problems associated with the business law
• To evaluate selected Australian business law issues in the global context
• To gain awareness of international developments in selected business law issues

Students are required to purchase the following:

Latimer P, Australian Business Law, 34th ed, OUP/CCH, 2015

Lectures will generally take the form of an outline of the topic and its key issues followed by an in class discussion of problems. Students are expected to keep up with the corresponding reading in Latimer, or as otherwise indicated by the lecturer. It is important to emphasise that lectures are the class contact hours only, and it is therefore necessary for students to allocate study time outside of class.

Some lecturers may provide outlines, slides or additional material.

Week	Lectures
Week 1 May 27	Introduction to Business Law
Week 2 June 3	Crime in the business world
Week 3 June 10	Formation of contract
Week 4 June 17	Contract - Genuine consent, capacity and legality of objects
Week 5 June 24	Contract- contents (terms), discharge and remedies for breach
Week 6 July 1	Property including intellectual property
Week 7 July 8	Competition Law
Week 8 July 15	Consumer Law
Week 9 July 22	Employment Law
Week 10 July 29	Law of Business Structures
Week 11 August 5	Electronic Commerce Law
Week 12 August 12	Revision Lecture

Assessment item	%of final mark	Dates	Length	Redeemable	Learning Objectives
Group Case Study	30%	Due: Friday 26 June 2pm	2000 words	No	1-9,14-16,19-21,23-26
Final Take Home Exam	70%	Released: Friday August 14 Due Monday 17 August 2 2pm	2000 words	No	3-26

The Group Case Study will be based on material covered in Weeks 1-5 of lectures. The Take home Examination will directly examine material covered in Weeks 5-11 of lectures.

Further details about the Group Case Study format and guidelines will be issued at the start of the course.

Assignments must be handed in electronically through turnitin. Students must ensure their student number appears on all written work submitted for assessment.

Students must keep a copy of all items of assessment.

Extensions

Extensions are granted at the discretion of Course Coordinators. Extensions beyond the due date are usually only granted in the case of significant unforeseen incapacity.

Students who wish to apply, should apply for an extension by completing the online Application for Extension form found at (http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/student/forms/). The application must give details of the extent and length of the student’s incapacity, and the length of extension that is requested. The Course Coordinator will email students with the outcome of their request as soon as possible after it is received. If an extension is granted, it is only provisional until formal evidence of the incapacity is received. Students must attach this evidence as well as the email granting the extension to the assignment when it is submitted. The evidence submitted must be consistent with details provided in the email requesting the extension. If the details of the request for an extension, and the medical or other evidence verifying the reason for the extension are not consistent in all respects, the extension may be nullified, and the Course Coordinator may in their discretion decide not to accept the assignment, or impose a penalty for late submission.

You can apply for an extension at any time before the due date for an assignment. However, you are strongly advised to make your application as soon as the need becomes apparent. Delay in making an application obviously involves the risk that there will be insufficient time to complete the assignment (with consequential loss of marks) if the application for extension is refused.

If an application is made within two days of the due date, or after the due date has expired, it will not be granted unless the Course Co-ordinator is satisfied:

• that the circumstances warrant an extension; and
• there was no unreasonable delay in making the application.

If your request for an extension is rejected, you can appeal in writing to the Student Appeals Committee, via the Secretary to the Student Appeals Committee, within seven days of notification of rejection by the Course Co-ordinator.

Penalties for Late Submission

Where an assignment is submitted after the due date, and without an extension, 5% of the total mark possible will be deducted for every day or part thereof that it is late, including each day on a weekend. This penalty may be increased where the assignment is to be completed in a period of less than a week.

Penalties for Exceeding Stipulated Word Length

5% of the total mark possible for a written assignment will be deducted for every 10% (or part thereof) by which it exceeds a stipulated word limit. Word limits include all words in the text, in headings, and in footnotes, though not in any separate bibliography or list of sources. If the word limit is seriously misstated, this may be regarded as academic dishonesty.