HOLMES INSTITUTE FACULTY OF HIGHER EDUCATION HA3021 Corporations Law Group Assignment 2020 Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines Trimester T1 2020 Unit Code HA3021 Unit Title Corporations Law Assessment Type Group Assignment Assessment Title HA3021 Group Assignment Purpose of the assessment (with ULO Mapping) The purpose of the Group Assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment in solving two case problems by citing the relevant legal rules and cases and applying these to the facts of the case. In this Group Assignment, students are required to: 4. Demonstrate the legal principles for managing a company in particular the company’s relationship with others. 5. Critically analyse the concept of corporate internal rules and management. 6. Analyse the role and responsibility of directors and members in the management of the company. 7. Analyse the interaction between members’ rights, directors’ duties and corporate governance. Weight 25% of the total assessment marks Total Marks 25 (15% for the Group Report and 10% for the Presentation) Word limit Group Written Report of maximum 2,000 words and a 10 minute presentation Due Date Week 10 Submission Guidelines • All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date along with a completed Assignment Cover Page. • The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt Arial font and 2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate section headings and page numbers. • Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and listed appropriately at the end in a reference list using the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC). NOTE: DO NOT USE Harvard Method. The Assignment MUST be in AGLC/Oxford Protocol. 5 marks WILL BE DEDUCTED if Harvard Method is used. Page 2 of 11 HA3021 Corporations Law Group Assignment T1 2020 Assignment Specifications Purpose: The Group Assignment aims to provide students with an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment in reporting on a recent Australian Corporations Law case relating to Directors Duties and breaches of Directors Duties. You would need to form your own groups of between 3 and 5 students per group. You had been provided an instruction manual on how to create your groups via BB. Once a group has been created, please ensure you elect a leader in your group. The assignment consists of 2 parts: a 2,000 word written report and a 10 minute (maximum) in-class or video presentation. Holmes is aware of the issues that some students are facing in forming groups for the Group Assignment. If there are extenuating circumstances which prevent you from forming a group for the Group Assignment then please contact your Unit Coordinator. Instructions: Please read and re-read carefully to avoid mistakes. General instructions: Read the following scenario and.

1. HOLMES INSTITUTE
FACULTY OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
HA3021 Corporations Law Group Assignment 2020
Assessment Details and Submission Guidelines
Trimester T1 2020
Unit Code HA3021
Unit Title Corporations Law
Assessment Type Group Assignment
Assessment Title HA3021 Group Assignment
Purpose of the
assessment (with
ULO Mapping)
The purpose of the Group Assignment is to provide students
with an opportunity
to work in a collaborative environment in solving two case
problems by citing the

2. relevant legal rules and cases and applying these to the facts of
the case.
In this Group Assignment, students are required to:
4. Demonstrate the legal principles for managing a company in
particular the
company’s relationship with others.
5. Critically analyse the concept of corporate internal rules and
management.
6. Analyse the role and responsibility of directors and members
in the
management of the company.
7. Analyse the interaction between members’ rights, directors’
duties and
corporate governance.
Weight 25% of the total assessment marks
Total Marks 25 (15% for the Group Report and 10% for the
Presentation)
Word limit Group Written Report of maximum 2,000 words and
a 10 minute presentation

3. Due Date Week 10
Submission
Guidelines
• All work must be submitted on Blackboard by the due date
along with a
completed Assignment Cover Page.
• The assignment must be in MS Word format, no spacing, 12-pt
Arial font and
2 cm margins on all four sides of your page with appropriate
section headings
and page numbers.
• Reference sources must be cited in the text of the report, and
listed
appropriately at the end in a reference list using the Australian
Guide to Legal
Citation (AGLC).
NOTE: DO NOT USE Harvard Method. The Assignment MUST
be in
AGLC/Oxford Protocol. 5 marks WILL BE DEDUCTED if
Harvard Method
is used.
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4. Assignment Specifications
Purpose: The Group Assignment aims to provide students with
an opportunity to work in a
collaborative environment in reporting on a recent Australian
Corporations Law case relating
to Directors Duties and breaches of Directors Duties.
You would need to form your own groups of between 3 and 5
students per group. You
had been provided an instruction manual on how to create your
groups via BB. Once
a group has been created, please ensure you elect a leader in
your group. The assignment
consists of 2 parts: a 2,000 word written report and a 10 minute
(maximum) in-class or video
presentation.
Holmes is aware of the issues that some students are facing in
forming groups for the Group
Assignment. If there are extenuating circumstances which
prevent you from forming a group
for the Group Assignment then please contact your Unit
Coordinator.
Instructions: Please read and re-read carefully to avoid
mistakes.
General instructions: Read the following scenario and answer

5. the questions that follow.
There are three questions that requires to be answered.
James Burden is considering buying shares in a company,
Saturday Night Live Ltd (SNL).
After purchasing 1,000 shares of SNL, James received a letter
(via email) from the company
secretary advising him of a forthcoming annual general meeting
(AGM). As a new
shareholder of SNL, James has plenty of questions to SNL’s
company secretary.
James rings and asks SNL’s company secretary to explain to
him what is meant by the terms
‘member’ and ‘shareholder’, and the different ways in which a
person may become a member.
He also asks to explain who may be eligible to become a
member, and how many members
a company is permitted to have. Finally, James asks: how does
a person cease to be a
member of a company?
1. Pretend that you are the company secretary and provide
advice to James
regarding his questions above. Use relevant sections of the
Corporations Act
2001 and/or case laws to support your answer (5 marks)
At the company’s annual general meeting, James bumps into the
company secretary. James
had observed that the notice he had received advising him of his

6. company’s annual general
meeting had stated that it would commence ‘at 1 pm’. Yet, on
the day, the annual general
meeting had not commenced until 1.10 pm because the chair had
been delayed in traffic
while trying to reach the meeting’s venue. James surmised that
this delay in starting the
meeting could constitute a procedural irregularity that could
only be rectified by his company
conducting the whole annual general meeting again.
2. Pretend that you are the company secretary and provide
advice to James
regarding his question on procedural irregularity. Use relevant
sections of the
Corporations Act 2001 and/or case laws to support your answer
(3 marks).
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Alan, who is the Chief Financial Officer of SNL, has become
aware that the company is
seeking to tender for some major renovation work needed by the
company. Alan’s cousin is
in the renovation business so Alan tells him of the possibility of
work at SNL. Alan tells his
cousin the price range that SNL will consider and something
about other companies that are

7. tendering. Alan attends the meeting where they consider who
will get the tender for the repair
work, but does not disclose his connection with his cousin, who
has put in a tender and
actually wins the contract.
3. Does Alan have any potential liability for what he has done
or not done? (7
marks)
Group report (15%)
1. The Group is required to write a commentary regarding the
scenario above.
2. The Group report must be submitted via SafeAssign on
Blackboard. Only the Group
Leader will upload.
3. The word count for the report is strictly up to 2,000 words
ONLY. Please write the
total word count for your report on the assignment cover sheet.
4. A minimum of eight (8) scholarly and academic references
must be cited. One of
these sources must be the case that is the topic of the report.
The references must
be cited both in-text and in a reference list at the end of the

8. report.
Group presentation (10%)
1. Present the report as a video recording.
a. In the video presentation, groups must show to the
satisfaction of the lecturer
that all group members made a reasonable contribution to the
group work.
b. Non-compliance with this requirement may result in a failing
mark for the
entire group.
2. Your video link must be uploaded to a publicly-viewable
video sharing platform (ex.
Youtube, Dropbox, Google drive) and the video link uploaded
on Blackboard.
3. The video presentation must be a minimum presentation
length of 10 minutes and
should not exceed 15 minutes.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS:
• All group report submissions must be de done online and run

9. through SafeAssign.
No hard copies are to be submitted. Only one group member
needs to submit for the
whole group.
• Please fill in the “Rubric Group Report” sheet (available in
Blackboard under
“Assignments and Due dates) and attach as a cover sheet to your
group report and
upload on Blackboard.
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• Each team member also must also submit to their lecturer a
“Peer Evaluation of
Individual Participation in Group Assignment” sheet (available
in Blackboard under
“Assignments and Due dates) with their video.
• No submission of either the group report or video presentation
link on Blackboard /
SafeAssign is equivalent to non-submission, which will merit a
mark of 0 (zero) for
the whole group for this assessment.
• Late submissions will be subject to Holmes Institute policy on

10. student assessment
submission and late penalties (please refer to subject outline
and Student
handbook).
• All reports are expected to observe proper referencing in
accordance with the
Australian Guide to Legal Citation (AGLC). A copy of the
AGLC may be read online
for free via this link:
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/
data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2877782/AGLC3.pdf
• Refer to the following: 2019 Holmes Institute Student
Handbook:
4. Faculty of Higher Education Study Skills p.22 onwards
4.1 Guide to Academic Referencing
Referencing is a convention of academic writing that students
must follow for several
reasons,
including:
acknowledging the ideas, information, and words of others;
enabling readers to judge your understanding and use of
existing knowledge;
avoiding accusations of plagiarism.

11. 4.2 Legal Referencing p.25
4.2.1 Legal Citation
Correct legal citation is essential. Something as simple as the
incorrect use of a
bracket can change the meaning of the citation. In general terms
the law comes from
two sources; the decisions of courts in cases (‘case law’ or
‘common law’) and the
legislation made by parliament (‘statute law’).
4.2.2 Citing Case Law
4.2.3 Citing Legislation
4.3 Guide to Academic Integrity p.27-28
Holmes Institute places strong emphasis on Academic Integrity
and views any forms
of academic misconduct such as cheating, contract cheating and
plagiarism as serious
offences. Academic misconduct in any form for any form of
assessment is not
tolerated.
4.3.1 Cheating
https://law.unimelb.edu.au/%20data/assets/pdf_file/0005/28777
82/AGLC3.pdf
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4.3.2 Plagiarism p.27
Plagiarism is any act to steal or pass off (the ideas or words of
another) as one’s
own, use (another’s production) without crediting the source,
and commit literary
theft, present as new and original an idea or product derived
from an existing source.
Plagiarism also includes self-plagiarism, which is using your
own previous work to
satisfy a requirement for a new piece of work. It is the
responsibility of the student
who is submitting the work, to ensure that the work is in fact
her/his own work.
Incorporating another’s work or ideas into one’s own work
without appropriate
acknowledgment is an academic offence. Students should
submit all
assignments for plagiarism checking on Blackboard before final
submission in
the unit.
Plagiarism includes but is not limited to:
presentation of the work, ideas, statements or words of another
as one’s own;
paraphrasing without acknowledging the authorship and source
through proper
citation;
direct quotation of any source material without proper citation;
submitting papers written by another person as your own;
offering false, fabricated or fictitious sources or data for
papers, reports, and other

13. reference material;
this includes but is not limited to the submission of a work, in
part or in whole,
completed by another.
4.3.3 Consequences of Academic Misconduct
Holmes Institute does not tolerate academic misconduct.
Different forms of academic
misconduct attract different consequences depending on the
severity of the breach of
academic integrity and the student’s experience in higher
education, including but not
limited to whether a student has previously been in breach of
academic integrity.
Depending on the act of academic misconduct, the consequence
may be determined
by the lecturer/faculty member or representative, the Board of
Examiners and/or the
Academic Board.
4.3.3.1 Consequences of Cheating
4.3.3.2 Consequences of Plagiarism and Contract Cheating
Marking criteria
Marking criteria Weighting (%)
Group Report (see detailed marking rubric below) 15%
Presentation (see detailed marking rubric below) 10%
TOTAL Weight 25%

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Marking Rubric
Written Report (15 marks)
MARKING CRITERIA Excellent Good Fair Poor
ORIGINALITY (Whether
the answer is original, in
the sense that the
answers are the group’s
own written work
ISSUES (Whether relevant
legal issues covered in
the subject have been
identified and discussed)

15. AUTHORITIES (Whether
relevant authorities –
case law and legislation -
have been identified in
relation to a proposition
of law)
PRINCIPLES (Whether a
correct representation
and interpretation of
applicable legal principles
is provided)
APPLICATION (Whether
an evaluation of the
preferable course of
action to take – if
required – has been
undertaken)
CONCLUSION (Whether a
reasoned conclusion has
been drawn)

16. EXPRESSION (How well
expressed and
comprehensible the
answer is)
ANALYSIS (The depth of
insight and observations)
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CLARITY (Clarity and
logical cogency of the
reasoning)
APPEARANCE AND
CITATIONS (Whether
appropriate writing
conventions and style of
writing have been

17. followed)
Video Presentation (10 marks)
MARKING CRITERIA Excellent Good Fair Poor
Group member
participation and division
of parts
Depth of analysis and
evidence of
understanding of the
issues presented and
critical thinking in
answers
Level of professionalism
of presentation (including
members in appropriate
business attire; and use
of visual aids)
Overall clarity of
presentation

18. List of suggested Corporations law cases
Note: these cases are only suggestions. Students are encouraged
to do their own
research and find other cases dealing with directors’ breaches of
duties under the
Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). Students may show their chosen
case to their lecturer
for confirmation prior to commencing their group report.
1. Gore v ASIC [2017] FCAFC 13
2. Asden Developments Pty Ltd (in liq) v Dinoris (No 3) [2016]
FCA 788
3. ASIC v Cassimatis (No. 8) [2016] FCA 1023
4. ASIC v Flugge (No 2) [2017] VSC 117 (sequel to ASIC v
Flugge & Geary [2016] VSC
779)
5. ASIC v Padbury Mining Limited [2016] FCA 990
6. ASIC v Sino Australia Oil and Gas Limited (in liq) (2016)
7. ASIC v Mariner Corporation Limited [2015] FCA 589
8. Forty Two International Pty Limited v Barnes [2014] FCA 85
– delete this case as not
really on directors’ duties
9. ASIC v Australian Property Custodian Holdings Limited (No
3) [2013] FCA 1342
10. ASIC v Hobbs [2012] NSWSC 1276

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11. Fodare Pty Ltd v Shearn [2011] NSWSC 479
12. ASIC v Fortescue Metals Group Ltd [2011] FCAFC 19
13. Groeneveld Australia Pty Ltd & Ors v Nolten & Ors (No 3)
[2010] VSC 533
14. Jubilee Mines NL v Riley [2009] WASCA 62
15. ASIC v Narain [2008] FCAFC 120
16. ASIC v Maxwell & Ors [2006] NSWSC 1052
17. ASIC v Edwards (No. 3) [2006] 57 ACSR 209
18. ASIC v Stephen William Vizard [2005] FCA 1037
19. ASIC v Plymin [2003] 175 FLR 124 (affirmed on appeal in
Elliott v ASIC [2004] 10
VR 369)
20. ASIC v Parker r [2003] 21 ACLC 888; [2003] FCA 262
21. ASIC v Southcorp Limited (No 2) [2003] FCA 1369 (27
November 2003); 203 ALR
627; 22 ACLC 1
22. ASIC v Whitlam [2002] NSWSC 591
23. R v Rivkin [2002] NSWSC 1182; 198 ALR 400; 45 ACSR
366
24. R v Firns 51 NSWLR 548; 38 ACSR 223; [2001] NSWCCA
191
25. Kokotovich Constructions Pty Ltd v Wallington (1995) 13
ACLC 1113 (NSW Court of
Appeal)
26. R v Byrnes and Hopwood (1995) 183 CLR 501; (1995) 130
ALR 529
27. AWA Ltd v Daniels (1992) 10 ACLC 933; on appeal Daniels
v Anderson (1995)

20. 37 NSWLR 438
28. Vrisakis v Australian Securities Commission [1993] 9 WAR
395
29. Whitehouse v Carlton Hotel Pty Ltd [1987] 162 CLR 285
30. Aberdeen Railway Co v Blaikie Bros (1854) 1 Macq 461
31. Furs Ltd v Tonkies (1936) 54 CLR 583;
32. State of South Australia v Marcus Clark (1996) 14 ACLC
1019
33. North West Transportation Co Ltd v Beatty (1887) 12 App
Cas 589
34. Regal (Hastings) Ltd v Gulliver [1942] 1 All ER 378
35. Queensland Mines Ltd v Hudson (1978) 18 ALR 1
36. Kinsela v Russell Kinsela Pty Ltd (in liq) (1986) 4 NSWLR
722
37. Roden v International Gas Applications (1995) 125 FLR 396
38. Camelot Resources Ltd v MacDonald (1994) 14 ASCR 437
39. McGellin v Mount King Mining NL (1998) 144 FLR 228
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