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Instructions

Assignment Specifications

Purpose:

The Group Assignment aims to provide students with an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment in solving three case problems by citing the relevant legal rules and cases and applying these to the facts of the case. Additionally, there is one short essay question where you have to cite a relevant legal case related to legislation.

Please note the following information regarding the formation of groups.

•  Assignment Groups are to be campus-specific.

•  All group assignments are based on 4 students per group (rule of 4) unless otherwise specified. [There may be allowable exceptions to the rule of 4, i.e. in some instances, a group maybe 3 or 2, as approved by CCs and UCs]

•   For cases where students are NOT a member of a group and their submission is thus 'solo', a 20% penalty will be applied.

The assignment consists of a 2,100-word written report.

Instructions: Please read and re-read carefully to avoid mistakes.

Group Report

1.        This group assignment consists of 3 parts. Part A is a question on Contract Law, Part B is on Australia Consumer Law, and Part C include one question on Business Structures and one question on Corporations Law.

2.        Each question is worth 10 marks each.

3.        The total word limit for the group report is 2,100 words (+/- 10% allowed)

●       Word limit for Part A – 500 words

●       Word limit for Part B – 500 words

●       Word limit for Part C (Q1) – 600 words

●       Word limit for Part C (Q2) – 500 words

4.        It is recommended that students use the IRAC method to answer each case study question.

5.        The group report is worth 40% of the total marks in this unit.

Important Reminders:

●       You must form your groups by self-enrolment in Blackboard. Please refer to the document "Group Assessment Self Enrolment Tutorial" that has been posted on Blackboard (under announcements and also in the "Assessments" folder). This document will assist you with self-enrolling in a group to undertake an assessment task in Blackboard Ultra.

●       All group report submissions must be done online and run through SafeAssign. No hard copies are to be submitted. Only one group member needs to submit for the whole group.

●       You must attach the official Holmes Institute cover sheet to your group report and upload it on Blackboard.

●       The Group report must be submitted via SafeAssign on Blackboard and show a similarity percentage figure. Any group report that does not show a SafeAssign similarity percentage will not be marked and must be resubmitted.

●       Late submissions will be subject to Holmes Institute policy on student assessment submission and late penalties (please refer to subject outline and Student handbook).

●       All reports are expected to observe proper referencing in accordance with the Adapted Harvard Referencing style.

●       Generally, a SafeAssign similarity percentage of 25% or below is acceptable for written reports. Regardless of the similarity figure, all group reports must use in-text citations and observe proper referencing rules.

●       All assignments are expected to strictly follow Holmes ' 'Institute's Academic Conduct and Integrity Policy and Procedures. A copy of the policy is available on the Holmes Institute home page. (About Holmes > Policies) This policy is also explained in your Student Handbook.

●       Plagiarism and contract cheating will not be tolerated. It will have severe consequences for the groups found committing the same, including receiving zero (0) for the entire assignment and possible failure in the unit.

●       IMPORTANT: Identification of individual work. To ensure that all students participate equitably in the group assignment and that students are responsible for the academic integrity of all components of the assignment, each group must complete the following table, which identifies which student/students are responsible for the various sections of the assignment:

This table needs to be completed and submitted with the assignment as it is a compulsory component required before any grading is undertaken.

Adapted Harvard Referencing

Holmes has implemented a revised Harvard approach to referencing. The following rules apply:

1.        Reference sources in assignments are limited to sources that provide full-text access to the

source’s content for lecturers and markers.

2.        The reference list must be located on a separate page at the end of the essay and titled:

“References”.

3.        The reference list must include the details of all the in-text citations, arranged A-Z alphabetically by author surname with each reference numbered (1 to 10, etc.) and each reference MUST include a hyperlink to the full text of the cited reference source. For example:

4.        All assignments must include in-text citations to the listed references. These must include the surname of the author/s or name of the authoring body, year of publication, page number of the content, and paragraph where the content can be found. For example, “The company decided to implement an enterprise-wide data warehouse business intelligence strategies (Hawking et al., 2004, p3(4)).”

Further referencing for Acts/Statues and case law – students require to use the following example. These examples apply to law-related units only.

Referencing legislation and Cases: Examples