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Business Law is fundamental in creating reliable standarts for companies to follow. This course provides students with fundamental elements of company law , by focusing on the following topics of SA companies and limited liability companies : basic principles of company law, separate legal personality, formation – registration- articles of association, Board of directors, appointment and removal of members of Board of directors, directors duties and liability, share issues- share capital- shareholders, resolutions and meetings, termination of company. The course also presents basic regulation on negotiable instruments as payment systems (banking cheques – bills of exchange), and an introduction to competition law and unfair business practices law . By the end of this course the student will have acquired the skill to apprehend :
By the end of this course the student will furthermore be able to understand:
Lectures (3 hours per week)
Activity |
Semester workload |
Lectures |
50 hours |
Exersices |
25 hours |
Private study |
75 hours |
Total number of hours for the Course (25 hours of work-load per ECTS credit) |
150 (total student workload) |
Final exam with Multiple choice questionnaires and developing questions
Communication with students using the campus LMS (eclass)