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Corporations Law Guidebook

David Wishart


The Law Guidebook Series links the key concepts from lectures, tutorials and textbooks, guiding students through the essential points of individual law subjects. The Corporations Law Guidebook provides a clear statement of important areas of contemporary corporations law and encourages students to apply the law to a number of scenarios using a variety of definitions, key cases, suggestions for revision, test questions and problem-solving tools. It deals with the crucial aspects of the subject in an easily “digestible” way to help students achieve good learning outcomes for what is a complex and challenging area of law.
  • Students are provided with a strong learning framework to approach problem-based tutorial questions and encourage further reading.
  • 'Active Learning' exercises provide interesting tasks through which topics can be more thoroughly understood and explored.
  • 'Think About It' exercises offer avenues to deeper learning by pointing to readings of cases, providing a hypothesis with which to approach judgements.

 

How to Learn from this Book

How to Write Essays

How to Solve Problems

Part 1:   Corporations Law in Context

1. The Law

2. The Constitution

3. Administration

Part 2: External Matters

4. The Entity

5. Capacities and Powers

6. As Debtor

7. Companies In Trouble

8. Liquidation

9. Paying in Order

10. Protecting Stakeholders and Society Generally

Part 3: Internal Matters

11. The Decision-Making Structure

12. Information

13. Control of Decisions

Part 4:   The Securities Market

14. Regulation of the Industry

Table of Cases

Table of Statutes

Index

David Wishart – Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, La Trobe University

History

Introduction
Students rarely have to write essays about the history of corporations law. Indeed, there are few scholars who write on the subject, and just one or two who are concerned with the history of Australian corporations law. Nevertheless, the events of the past in sequence and in context can be vital to any student’s understanding of the subject.

Essays on current topics are frequently required and they are much enhanced by knowledge of how things came to be as they are. The context of old cases and past legislation also illuminates their meanings.

The Corporations Law Timeline presents events with small contextualising essays for specific periods. Sources for further exploration of the subject are provided at the end.

Corporations Law Timeline

Corporations Law Issues

Corporations Law Theory