This course is about dealings, and for the most part, business dealings, in personal property, i.e. all forms of property other than real estate, whether tangible or intangible. The earlier modules concern transactions. The later modules involve dispute resolution, finance and risk management associated with those transactions. Its objectives are:

(a)    to teach students some of the law relating to some common commercial transactions;
(b)    to ensure they are able to use that law to solve problems arising from those transactions; and
(c)    to train them to advise clients about those problems in a straightforward, business-like manner.

PLEASE NOTE that this subject guide has been substantially revised over the last couple of semesters. Students should be careful when reading texts and prior exam questions. They may not be in line with current course content.

The major areas of revision result from:

The new Australian Consumer Law 2010 (which commenced 1 January 2011), which consolidates many provisions similar to those previously spread between the Trade Practices Act, and state Fair Trading Acts, as well as introducing new provisions concerning unfair contracts.

The new Commonwealth Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (scheduled to commence February 2012), introduces some entirely new concepts.

Increased coverage of certain aspects of electronic commerce and commercial dispute resolution.

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