Corporations Law Notes

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Detailed notes of the entire course NOT an exam summary. Introduction to Corporations - Key business structures (sole trader, partnership, company) Consequences of Incorporation - Separate Legal Entity , Exceptions to SLE principle, Groups and the SLE doctrine What is the Corporate Constitution? - Altering the Constitution , Alteration of rights attaching to shares, Variation of Class Rights How do companies deal with money? - Agency (Actual, Apparent, S128 and S129) How do companies enter transactions? - Share and Debt Capital (Maintenance of Share Capital), Dividends Division on Power - Shareholder powers, Corporate Governance Directors Duties - Duty of Care, Duty of Good Faith, Fiduciary Duties, S182 and S183, S191-S196, S588G Remedies - Statutory Civil + Criminal Provisions, Relief Shareholders Rights and Remedies - Oppression , Statutory Derivative Action, Injunction, Winding Up How do companies come to an end? - Liquidation, Voluntary administration Voidable transactions - Unfair preference, Uncommerical transactions, unfair loans, unreasonable director related transactions