Framework of Commercial Law - ATAX0004
Faculty: Australian School of Business
School: Australian School of Taxation and Business Law
Course Outline: ATAX0004 Course Outline
Campus: ATAX Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
Excluded: ATAX0104
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate a basic understanding of the legal aspects of commercial transactions and relationships
- Discuss in detail the elements of an agreement and identify, from a given fact situation, whether a contract has been entered into
- Identify the terms of a contract, including the law relating to implied terms both at common law and under selected statutes
- Differentiate between a breach of a condition and a breach of a warranty and the remedies which apply in respect of each
- Analyse the legal situation and identify what rights the parties have when there has been a breach of contract, or a contract has been frustrated
- Explain the concept of damages and apply the principles to factual situations
- Analyse problems arising in questions of agency and support your analysis with reasons supported by reference to principles and case law
- Analyse what is meant by misrepresentation in forming a contract and solve practical problems involving this concept
- Apply provisions of the Sale of Goods Acts and Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cwlth) in solving practical legal problems involving selected statutory provisions
- Explain the concept of negotiable instruments and solve simple problems based on this concept.
Main Topics
- Protection by legislation
- Contracts - the agreement
- Contracts - termination, breach and ancilliary matters
- Agency
- Negotiable instruments
Course Texts
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