Business Law Research Assignment
Overview of the task – Task: Research Assignment (Essay)
Details of the task
The research assignment is to be completed individually and requires students to undertake their own research of academic materials outside of those prescribed or provided in the unit as a basis for their completed assignment (e.g., legal journal articles, case summaries, other texts).
Students must read and follow all instructions carefully and familiarise themselves with the VU Academic Integrity and Plagiarism policies.
The assignment should be written in the style of an essay. All assertions should be supported with appropriate references to Australian law (cases) and relevant articles/journals. Students should be wary of using internet sources that are not of acceptable academic standard.
Footnotes and bibliography (Australian Guide to Legal Citation format) are required. Other referencing styles (e.g., Harvard style) are not to be used for this assignment.
Preparation
The essay topic may not be fully covered in lectures and tutorials prior to the due date.
Students are nonetheless expected to review the topic (i.e., lecture slides and relevant chapters of prescribed text) as well as to conduct more in-depth research into the topic using a variety of reputable academic resources. VU library resources and databases are recommended for this purpose.
It is recommended that students begin researching the assignment as early as possible.
Assignment Topic:
Topic: Consideration need not be adequate or commercially realistic. It merely needs to be ‘sufficient’.
Discuss what the term ‘sufficient’ means in this context and whether the statement is accurate in regards to Australian contract law.
Purpose: to study and understand the relevant rules of consideration and the development of common law in regards to consideration.
In your essay you are to address the following issues:
Explain the role of consideration in formation of a contract
Discuss what is meant by the key words in the assignment topic
Explain the development of the relevant law with regards to the assignment topic.
Refer to the appropriate law/cases in your explanation
Make appropriate observations on whether there areany existing problems or issues.
Note: Extensive summaries of facts of cases are not desirable. Students should focus on identifying and explaining the decision and reasoning of the court and the relevance with regard to the assignment topic.
Assignment – https://www.dropbox.com/s/umvrl9fdvminacc/Law%20Assignment.rar?dl=0
