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Law of Banking - LAWS3133
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LAWS1001 and LAWS1011 and Corequisite: LAWS2311; Prerequisite: JURD7101 and JURD7111 and Corequisite: JURD7211
 
 
Excluded: JURD7333
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The Law of Banking provides an introduction to relevant legal principles and to aspects of the practice of banking. The course is concerned directly with the relationship between banker and customer and with contemporary transactional techniques.

This course will address bills of exchange, as a foundational financial instrument, but not cheques which are declining in importance. It also addresses contemporary banking instruments and transactions, such as syndicated lending, derivatives, project finance and asset securitisation.


Recommended Prior Knowledge

No expertise is required beyond that in compulsory law subjects. Contracts and Torts will be found to be of particular relevance.

Course Objectives

The objectives of the course are to acquaint students with the rationale for banking law, give them an understanding of key statutory provisions and case law and provide practical understanding of banking law and policy.
Students will be required to develop sufficient working understanding of banking law to be able to advise in the resolution of problems and the planning of strategies.

Main Topics

  • The Australian Banking System, Prudential Supervision and Capital Adequacy
  • The Constitutional Basis of Federal Banking Regulation
  • Types of Lending
  • The Concept of Security and Common Forms of Security: Pledge, Lien, Legal Mortgage, Equitable Charge, etc, plus the law of legal and equitable assignment
  • Bills of exchange
  • Banker-Customer Duties
  • The Current Account
  • Syndicated Loans, with a focus on the conflicts in the role of the Agent Bank
  • Loan sales: the law of novation, assignment and participation
  • Project Finance
  • Asset securitization
  • Derivatives
  • Letter of Credit Law: commercial and standby credits and the Uniform Customs & Practice for Documentary Credits, and the Fraud Rule in Commercial and Standby Credits
  • High Finance

Assessment

Class participation - 10%

Research essay - 40%

Final examination - 50%

Students will be given the option of not submitting a research essay and sitting a final examination which counts towards 90% of the assessment.

Course Texts

McCracken & Everett, Banking and Financial Institutions Law, 7th edn, Thomson, 2009

Recommended
Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

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