Undergraduate modules

Second year

Consumer protection 220 (VBB 220)

For LLB and BCom specialising in law

-  Basic principles of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005

-  Aspects regarding the law applicable to credit agreements

-  Basic principles of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008

 

Specific contracts 220 (KTH 220)

For LLB, BA and BCom specialising in law

-  Law of purchase and sale

-  Law of letting and hiring of things

-  Law of agency

-  Law of suretyship

-  Law of letting and hiring of work.

 

Third Year

Entrepreneurial Law 320 (ODR 320)

For LLB and BCom specialising in law

-  Company law

-  Law relating to close corporations

-  Partnership law

Insolvency Law 310 (ISR 310)

For LLB and BCom specialising in law

-  General introduction and historical background

-  The process of sequestration

-  Effects of sequestration

-  Voidable and void dispositions

-  Overview of administration of insolvent estates

-  Composition, rehabilitation and offences

-  Liquidation of insolvent companies and close corporations

Payment methods 320 (VHD 320)

For LLB and BCom specialising in law

-  Elements of negotiability, the bill of exchange, cheques and promissory notes;  parties to bills; cheques and notes

-  Requirements for validity, negotiation, holdership and acceptance

-  The banker-client relationship, crossing and additions to crossings, the legal position of the drawee and collecting

-  Electronic payment methods

Tax law 310 (BLR 310)

For LLB

-  Foundations of income tax

-  Calculatiuon of income tax payable

-  Capital gains tax

 

Fourth year

Labour law 410 (ABR 410)

For LLB

-  Individual labour law

-  Collective labour law

-  Resolution of labour disputes

 

Elective modules in fourth year

 

Information and Communications Technology Law 420 (KUB 420)

-  Introduction to the study of information and communications technology law:

The place of information and communications technology law in the legal system

The nature and scope of information and communications technology law

Inception and influence of the internet

-  Regulation of the internet

National/international

Jurisdiction

-  Aspects of intellectual property law and the internet

-  E-commerce activities and the internet

Aspects of jurisdiction and signing of contracts

Data protection and encryption

Liability of internet service providers

-  Advertising and the internet

-  Criminal liability in information and communications technology law

-  Constitutional aspects in information and communications technology law:

The right to privacy/freedom of expression and information

Law of banking and financial institutions 410 (LBF 410)

-  Law pertaining to selected financial institutions

-  Banking law

-  Insurance law

Law of securties 410 (LOC 410)

-  Legal principles in respect of the regulation of the primary security markets

-  Legal principles in respect of secondary security markets

Tax practice 420 (BLP 420)

-  Transfer duty

-  Value-added tax

-  Diverse tax matters

Transnational Business Law 420 (TBR 420)

-  International contracts of sale

-  International contracts of carriage

-  Insurance contracts in international transactions.

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