Business English for Lawyers I - HP1401

• Title: Právnická angličtina v ekonomickém kontextu I.
• Guaranteed by: Department of Foreign Languages (22-KJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Law
• Actual: from 2019
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: cancelled
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D.
• Class: cizí jazyky pro právníky
• Classification: Law > Foreign Languages for Lawyers
• Is incompatible with: HP3622

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D. (13.09.2018)

The course focuses on the language required to discuss the topics related to company law as listed in the syllabus. It introduces the most important concepts of the branch and enables the students to practice using the language in various assignments including reading comprehension, listening, spoken interaction and writing. The course is designed primarily for students having at least basic knowledge of Czech company law.
The course is completed with examination in the form of written test.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D. (22.09.2015)

Optional:

• Alan Dignam, John Lowry . Company Law. 8. Oxford. 2014. 978-0-19-870413-3.
• Marcella Chartrand, Catherine Millary, Edward Wiltshire. English for Contract and Company Law. 2. London. 2003. 04217987X.
• Gillian D. Brown, Sally Rise. Professional Englishin Use: Law. 1. Cambridge. 2007. 978-0-521-68542-9.
• Helen Callanan, Lynda Edwards. Absolute Legal English. 1. England. 2010. 978-1-905085-51-4.
• Catherine Mason. The Lawyer's English Language Coursebook. 978-0-9540714-6-2.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D. (13.09.2018)

The course is completed with examination in the form of written test. 

Only students who comply with the following requirements will be allowed to take the written test: 

• 70% attendance regardless of the date when they officially register, and
• Two written assignments handed in before taking the written test (the two assignments represent 25% of the final grade)

Examination in the form of written test represents 75% of the final grade. 

 

 

 

 

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D. (13.09.2018)

1. Forms of business organisation
- The sole trader
- The partnership
- The company (public and private companies)

 2. Company formation
- Corporate personality and limited liability
- The formation process
- The memorandum and constitution
- Members, shareholders and the ownership of the corporation
- Corporate management and director’s duties

 3. Raising capital: equity
- Public and private companies
- Methods of raising money from the public
- Regulation of listed companies, a prospectus
- Classes of shares and class rights

 4. Raising capital: debentures
- Debentures
- Fixed and floating charges

 5. Corporate rescue and liquidations
- Administration; Company Voluntary Arrangement; Liquidations
- Insolvency practitioners
- Mergers and acquisitions

 

 

 

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Adéla Bahenská, Ph.D. (13.09.2018)

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