This week’s topics
Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
- Drafting against the criteria
- Tutor and peer feedback
- Improving the final submission
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Analyse the characteristics of: o the sole trader o partnership o public and private companies
- 1.2 Evaluate different functions of EU companies.
- 1.3 Evaluate regulatory frameworks of incorporation of UK and EU companies.
- 1.4 Evaluate the articles of association and how these can be enforced.
- 1.5 Analyse the effect of the corporate veil and how this can be lifted.
- 2.1 Evaluate the legal nature, roles, powers and liabilities of shareholders and directors towards the company.
- 2.2 Assess the consequences of a breach in directors’ duties in company law.
- 2.3 Analyse the directors’ responsibilities to creditors of the company in financial distress.
- 2.4 Analyse the mechanisms for disqualifications of directors.
- 3.1 Analyse the rights of shareholders in public and private limited companies.
- 3.2 Explain the rights of members in voting
- 3.3 Analyse minority shareholder protection.
- 4.1 Evaluate the role of the auditor.
- 4.2 Analyse the winding up process and dissolution including powers and duties of the liquidator.
- 4.3 Assess the priority of creditors in a winding up process.
- 4.4 Evaluate the role of licensed Insolvency Practitioners.
Activity
Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.
Study materials
Further resources
- Writing Guide with Handbook, ch. 7.3: Criteria, evidence, evaluation · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 214–216 · for registered students
- Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
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