200909 Enterprise Law

Tutorial Questions: Module 1 - Australian Legal System and

Academic Integrity

Tutorial 1: Introduction to Enterprise Law

Before class: Students should read the Learning Guide, familiarise themselves with
the vUWS site and other course materials. Listen to the Week 1 podcasts. Read the
relevant pages of the textbook. Prepare answers to the questions below.

In class:

1. Introduction to Enterprise Law, where blended learning will be explained, and the
assessment tasks discussed.

2. Why is it important for business people to know about the law? Can you think of
any recent events (from the news or current affairs) of a business having legal
problems?

3. Academic skills:

(a) Note taking is important. On vUWS there was a video on the 5 best methods
used. Students are to choose one of the note-taking methods discussed, and
summarise ‘What are the major types of laws found in the Australian Legal System?
on pages 9, 10, and 11 of Week 1 readings from your textbook.

Which technique did you choose? Was it effective? Why/why not?

(b) A student overheard the following comment made by a tutor:

The first years are revolting.

What did the tutor mean?

(c) If you wrote a book and dedicated it to “my parents, George Clooney and
Madonna”.
How is this dedication to be interpreted?
(d) Referencing: Acknowledging sources is an important part of good written
communication skills. At university, in this unit, students who do not reference
properly will be investigated for academic misconduct.

You are being asked to use the Harvard/WesternSydU style. This requires a
reference in-text and a Reference List at the end.

For the in-text citation, for a direct quotation, it would be:

‘The standard of care required in a particular case is a question of law for the judge
to determine’ (Gibson & Osborne 2020, p. 362).

Indirect quotations are used to paraphrase or summarise another author’s ideas. The
information from an outside source is rephrased in the writer’s own words without
changing the meaning. To paraphrase well you need to understand the ideas and
concepts of the text before you can change its structure and vocabulary.

When you summarise the general idea of a source in your own words, you must cite
the author and year of publication of the work as shown below. Harvard
WesternSydU style does not require you to provide the page number. However, if
you paraphrase or summarise a specific paragraph or section you should consider
including the page number.

Eg. Gibson & Osborne (2020, p. 360) maintain that ‘….’.

If you are looking for synonyms do not change legal terms. Just changing a few
words is not valid paraphrasing.

The Reference List is arranged alphabetically according to the author’s last name.
Using the above example the entry for that book would be:

Gibson, A & Osborne, S 2020, Commercial and enterprise law, custom 2 nd

edn, Pearson Australia, Melbourne, compiled by Thilla Rajaretnam & Pamela
Devery.

(e) The reference below is missing the following aspects:

Location; date; family name.
Place the correct details into the citation:

(i), B, O’Reilly, J & (ii), A (iii), Law in Commerce, 6th edn, LexisNexis, (iv).

(f) Fill in the blanks:

Sweeney, O’Reilly and Coleman (i) observe that "[T]here are many other examples
of parliaments intervening to regulate social and economic life." (ii).

(g) How do you cite a case?

(h) How do you cite a statute?

After class: Go through your notes and ensure you understand the answer to each
of the questions asked.
##There is an Academic Integrity Module accessed through vUWS. Students
are expected to complete it and undertake the quiz.