BTF5903 Law and business decisions
Faculty of Business and Economics
BTF5903 Law and business decisions is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Business and Economics. It isn't offered in 2025. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Not offered
- Assessment
- Exam 50%
- and 1 other task
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before BTF5903
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After BTF5903
No unit lists BTF5903 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Overview
This unit examines business law and legal negotiation in practice, including applying contract law, the law of negligence, statutory consumer protections and agency, and managing legal risks in business contexts. The unit also introduces the key business forms of corporations, partnerships and and sole traders, including their key legal requirements and factors affecting the choice of appropriate business form.
Offerings in 2025
The 2025 handbook lists no offerings for BTF5903.
Assessment
- Within semester assessment50%
- Examination50%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
investigate the legal risks faced by businesses in relation contracts, negligence and consumer protection laws, and formulate appropriate strategies and business processes to avoid or minimise those legal risks and to exceed mere legal compliance
- 2
demonstrate communication skills and analytical skills involving legal reasoning
- 3
critically distinguish between the key business entity types with reference to their benefits and legal problems, and integrate these with factual scenarios.
Workload and teaching
- Seminars36 hours
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
- Teaching approachCase-based teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. You are expected to complete all pre-class activities prior to your scheduled class, and post-class activities should be completed after your scheduled class. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed, peer directed and online engagement activities.
This unit engages you in actively applying your knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
This unit includes case-based teaching, where you apply your knowledge and engage in analytical and reflective thinking to solve complex contextual scenarios. Activities are often designed so that there is not one clear answer, but you need to work together to examine, analyse and make decisions to resolve the situation.
Learning resources
Required resources
Coleman, A. et al, "Law in Commerce" (7th ed.). LexisNexis, 2020
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for BTF5903?
BTF5903 has no prerequisites.
When is BTF5903 offered?
BTF5903 has no offerings listed in the 2025 handbook.
How much work is BTF5903?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does BTF5903 have an exam?
Yes. The exam is worth 50% of the final mark, alongside 1 other task.