Ulo critically discuss and apply contract and tort law business circumstances

Assignment Specifications	Page 2 of 7

Instructions: Please read and re-read carefully to avoid mistakes.

Group Report
1. This group assignment consists of 2 parts. Part A is a question on Contract Law, and Part B is a question involving Business Structures. Both questions must be answered.

• You must form your groups by self-enrolment in Blackboard. Please refer to the document “Group Assessment Self Enrolment Tutorial”, that has been posted in Blackboard (under announcements and also in “Assessments” folder). This document will assist you with the process of self-enrolling in a group to undertake an assessment task in Blackboard Ultra.

• All group report submissions must be de done online and run through SafeAssign. No hard copies are to be submitted. Only one group member needs to submit for the whole group.

HI6027 Business and Corporate Law Group Assignment 2020

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•	In general, for written reports, a SafeAssign similarity percentage of 25% or below is acceptable. Regardless of the similarity figure, all group reports must use in-text citation and observe proper referencing rules.

Marking criteria

	6%
- Identification of legal issues / legal question and relevant law

	4%
- Professional quality

Part A: Contracts Law Question
•

	Your answer must be supported by relevant law and cases decided by Australian courts
(preferably the High Court) and/or scholarly articles. A minimum of 3 genuine and relevant references are required for this part of the report.

“We’re very impressed by your work, Joey. We’d like you to join us permanently—we’re sure you’ll be happy with the deal we can offer you.”

The document was a contract of employment which contained the following clauses:

Advise Great Games whether it can prevent Joey from working for CAN.

In answering this question, you are expected to draw on legal rules, principles and cases discussed in the lectures from Weeks 1 to 4 and the corresponding chapters from the prescribed textbook.



•	In 1,000 words (+/- 10% is allowed), answer the chosen given question.


	Your references must be listed in a Reference list at the end of the Part B question.

You have graduated from Holmes Institute with a Master’s Degree in Professional Accounting,

Harry has always been an employee and now he would like to know what type of business structure he should have for his bakery.

Your task is to write a report to Harry about the types of business structures that you consider would be suitable for Harry to consider.

(6 marks)

5.5 to 6 marks

Identifies the
basic relevant
facts of the case but misses other relevant facts

Below 3 marks
Does not identify
relevant facts of case

Correctly identifies relevant and
appropriate legal rules and case law, and states them in the form of
statements

6 to 7 marks

Legal rules and case law not
correctly
identified.

Below 4 marks

7.5 to 8 marks

Correctly identifies facts; well-
reasoned
discussion relating facts to the rules
and case law.

Facts not correctly identified.

Analysis
incoherent.

Correctly cites
minimum of 6
references, in-text and in reference
list.

3 to 3.5 marks

No referencing either in-text or in reference list; or cites
inappropriate
references; or all
references not cited in the correct format.

HI6027 Business and Corporate Law Group Assignment 2020