business law

Part A – Media report analysis

Students are required to select a media report from the choice of reports enclosed. Students are
required to identify and analyse the legal issues arising in their chosen report. Students need to apply
the same criterion that was used in the topic one case study,The Coffee Shop, to their chosen
media report.

Part B – Case analysis

After reading and examining the extract reported decision provided on Blackboard under the
Assessment folder, students are required to answer a series of questions demonstrating their ability
to comprehend and apply their knowledge of topic two in the analysis of the reported decision.

Presentation

· Cover sheet (located on Blackboard under the ‘Assessment’ folder)
· Introduction to answers, content of body and concluding comments
· Appropriate sentence structure
· Correct grammar, spelling and punctuation
· Paragraph size and breaks appropriate
· Consistent format
· Appropriate use of headings and sub-headings
· Within acceptable word limit
· Appropriate referencing and acknowledgment of sources

Word Limit

The assignment should be a minimum of 500 words and not exceed 2000 words inclusive of both
questions (i.e. 2000 maximum in total). Please provide a word count on your cover sheet. A penalty
of 10% will be imposed on assignments that exceed the word limit. Markers have discretion as to
whether to apply the penalty for an additional 100 words, provided the discussion remains relevant.

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PART A Media report analysis (8 marks)

1. Identify aspects of your chosen media report that relate to the law with reference to the areas of
law listed in Chapter 1 of the FPBL Source Book. Not all of these areas of law will be relevant,
but each article involves at least three areas of law. Students should not just provide a bare
conclusion, but also explain why that particular area of law is relevant.
(2 marks)

2. The law has various functions. It:
· Allows people to organise and plan;
· Encourages or discourages particular activities;
· Creates rights and duties that can be enforced; and

· Provides remedies when right are interfered with or duties are not discharged.

Demonstrate how the law functions in these various ways with reference to specific examples
within your chosen media report and the areas of law you identified in Part A, question 1. You
need only provide one example per point. However, you must discuss all four of these functions.
Where possible, each point should use a different area of law as illustration. Be sure to explain
specifically how and why you came to this conclusion.
(3 marks)

3. With reference to the legal issues reported on in the chosen media report describe why it is
important to know the law in these circumstances?
(3 marks)

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Media article 1
Source: The Western Australian
Date: Friday, 2 December 2011
Page: 6

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Media article 2
Source: The Western Australian
Date: Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Page: 10

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Media article 3
Source: The Western Australian
Date: Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Page: 1

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PART B Case summary (8 marks)

Some of the answers to these questions will be quite straight forward and short. Others will require
more thought and will be longer.

Students should refer to the material that was covered in the seminar for topic two and the prescribed
readings and computer based tutorial. Students can also find further guidance by reviewing how the
case summaries are set out at the back of the First Principles of Law Source Book.

1. In which court was the reported case decided?
(0.5 marks)

2. Will this decision be treated as either binding or persuasive by a Western Australian State
Supreme Court and why?
(1 mark)

3. What were the names of the judges who heard the case?
(0.5 marks)

4. What were the full names of the parties? What are those parties called and why?
(1 mark)

5. What were the material facts of the reported case?
(1.5 marks)

6. What was the main legal issue to be decided?
(1 mark)

7. What was the decision of the Court?
(1 mark)

8. Concentrating on the judgement of how would you express the ratio decided  of the reported
case (the reason)?
(2.5 marks)

9. How many precedents can you identify in the decided case? How important are the decisions
from courts of other jurisdictions?
(1 mark)

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