SBM3310: Corporations Law – Case Study – Law Assignment

Corporations Law Case Study

In doing this case study, you will observe the judges legal reasoning and the application of the doctrine of precedent that you would have studied in Business law. In addition to this, you would have studied terms like ‘ratio decidendi’ and ‘obiter dictum’ and again you may observe the judgement applying these principles.

‘Ratio decidendi’ means the reason why a case was decided

‘Obiter dictum’ means (obiter –by the way, dictum-something which has been said) the other observations which are made by the judge in deciding the case but which were not necessary to decide it. Before completing this case study:

Read the case as many times as you feel necessary to be enable you to identify the following:
(a) Legal terms and their meanings relevant to the case
(b) The major legal issues- areas of law in dispute
(c) The relevant law (cases and statutes) relied on by the judge in making his/her decision
(d) The actual decision of the case.

Task:
(a) Relevant facts of the case
(b) The major legal issues
(e) The relevant law relied on by the judge(s) in making their decision
(c) The actual decision of the case