HD notes - MLL331 Corporate Law

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Week 1 - What is a company? - The regularly framework for corporate law in Australia - Registration and its effects Week 2 - The difference types of companies and their regulation - Internal governance rules, company constitutions & replaceable rules Week 3 - The company’s relations withoutsides, including formation of contracts and authority to act on behalf of a company - Promoters and pre-registration contracts - Fundraising by issue of securities Week 4 - Share Capital - Membership - Dividends Week 5 - Debentures and personal property securities - Officers, including directors and secretaries - Ceasing to be a director - Introduction to employees’ and officers’ duties Week 6 - Corporate governance - Directors’ duty of care, skill and diligence Week 7 - Directors’ duties of good faith and proper purpose - Directors’ conflicts of interest duties (Part 1) Week 8 - Directors’ conflicts of interest duties (Part 2) Related Party Transactions (Ch 2E) - Duty to prevent insolvent trading (s 588G) - Remedies and penalties for breach of duty - Exoneration and relief for directors’ breach of duty Week 9 - Shareholders’ meetings - Members’ remedies Statutory Derivative Action s 236 Oppressive or Unfair Conduct s 232 Statutory Injunction s 1324 Members’ right to inspect books s 247A Members’ personal right of action Winding Up s 461 - ASIC investigation powers Week 10 - Receivership - Voluntary administration and deed of company agreement - Liquidation Week 11 - Revision