Business Law BTBM_LAW
The aim of this course is to help students to develop the knowledge of law needed in business and gain understanding to interpret business situations and how specific cases would likely be interpreted based on business law. The emphasis of this study is on what can be achieved – not what minimum skills are required for an entry level job, but how to establish a career in business.
Business transactions require an understanding of the legal environment to ensure a proper foundation for the manner in which business is conducted, from compliance with rules and regulations, to collections and dealing with evidence to support your ability to collect. The objective of this training is to establish a point of reference with “generic tools and techniques” that help you to adapt to (or adopt) tools and procedures used in a workplace or to embrace any changes that occur within that workplace over time to make sure that they have a solid legal foundation. This can be extremely important for project managers that often deal with conflict.
The course will incorporate a practical example based on a “Real Estate Agreement for Purchase & Sale” that people hopefully will at some point become familiar with. We will refer back to the agreement and discuss relevant principles, potential disputes and resolution, the commitments on buyers and sellers, consequences of failing to meet those commitments, how to be prepared before you enter into such a commitment, and how to ensure your rights are protected from a buyer and from a seller perspective. In business dealings you will find similar (albeit not identical) contracts that you must negotiate and pursue in a similar manner using the same principles discussed in a Real Estate contract.
To provide a solid foundation, the following topics will be reflected in this training course:
- Introduction: Evolution of Law, What are Torts, Remedies and damages
- Contracts: What are contracts? Forms of a contract, Breach of contract, Forms of Business Organization
- Property: Real Property (Excel™ model – Simulation: agreement of Purchase and Sale, compare and analyze property values, determine financing options), Intellectual Property, Sale of Goods
Evolution of Law
- What is “law” and what types of laws are in Canada
- The differences between ‘common law’ and ‘civil law’
- The origins and sources of Canadian law
- Understand constitutional law and the division of powers
- Gain an understanding of the rights Canadians have under the Canadian Constitution, Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Human Rights Legislation
What are Torts
- To understand the meaning of ‘Torts’
- To examine intentional torts….assault, battery, trespass, private nuisance, defamation, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment
- To understand the tort of ‘Negligence’ and all its implications in business
The legal concept of ‘Duty of Care’ and in when it is owed
- The significance of ‘Breach of Standard of Care’ and how it is determined
- The concept of ‘Causation’, physical and legal
- Negligence in business concerns and the significance of ‘Vicarious Liability’
Remedies and damages
- To understand the various remedies and damages to tort actions
- To realize the various defenses to tort actions including negligence
- Manufacturer’s and Product Liability
- To understand the liability of Professionals
- To understand different types of Insurance
What are contracts?
- Understand the significance and implications of contracts in business
- Identify the requirements of a valid contract
- “Offer” and “Acceptance” – the necessary conditions
- “Consideration” – an essential element in a valid contract
- When a contract requires a “seal”
- Understand that in some situations capacity to contract may be limited
- Illegal contracts and contracts against public policy
Forms of a contract
- Forms of a contract
- When contracts must be in writing
- To understand the nature and effect of a mistake in a contract
- Define ‘Misrepresentation’ and its consequences on a contract
- The implications of ‘duress’ and ‘undue influence’ in contract issues
- To have an understanding of the rules governing ‘privity’ and ‘assignment’ in contractual relationships
- To understand how a contract may come to an end
- The concept of ‘Frustration’
- The implications of ‘breach of contract’
- Discharge by agreement
Breach of contract
- Remedies for a breach of contract
- To understand the differences between employees, agents and independent contractors.
- To realize how common law rights and employment relationships affect each other.
- Legislation affecting employment.
- To become familiar with collective bargaining and labour unions legislation.
- To understand the agency relationship
Forms of Business Organization
- To define Sole Proprietorship, Partnership and their advantages and disadvantages
- The process of incorporation
- The concept of a ‘separate legal entity’ or corporation
- Funding a corporation
- To realize the duties and responsibilities of corporate officers
- Advantages and disadvantages of incorporation
- Dissolution of a corporation
- To realize the distinctions of personal and real property
- The rights and obligations associated with bailment
Real Property
- Real property and the ownership of land
- Landlord and tenant relationships
- Mortgages and their effect on real property
- Excel™ model – Simulation: how to create an realty agreement of Purchase and Sale
- Excel™ model – Simulation: how to compare and analyze property values using numerical analysis
- Excel™ model – Simulation: how to determine financing options.
Intellectual Property
- To identify the different types of intellectual property
- The legal protection of intellectual property
- To understand the effects of electronic technology on business and commerce
- The ever increasing regulation of the internet
- Legislation affecting electronic commerce
- To examine the various Torts and Crimes commonly committed online
- To consider the steps that businesses should take to protect intellectual property online
Sale of Goods
- Understand the legal implications when goods and services are bought and sold
- To realize the importance of the Sale of Goods Act
- To understand the concept of ‘negotiable instruments’
- Realize the legal significance of consumer protection legislation
- To see the reasoning for the Competition Act
Learning Formats BTBM_LAW
This course is currently available in a classroom setting (public or company private) with approximately 30 contact hours.
PDF – Certificate Of Completion
This course offers a certificate of completion that identifies the course, the student, and a brief description of the course. To receive a certificate the student must have attended at least 80% of the course sessions. This personalized certificate is forwarded to the student by Email.
PDF – Course Notebook
This course includes a notebook in PDF format that provides the minimum knowledge the student must master in order to obtain the certificate. In the notebook you will find references to other study materials. Students receive the notebook by Email when their registration is confirmed.
PDF – Program Overview
An overview of this study program can be downloaded from the website by right-clicking on the program link on the enquiry page.
PDF – Current Training Schedule
A list of upcoming training sessions can be downloaded from the website by right-clicking on the schedule link on the enquiry page.
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