Weekly Distribution:
- Lecture: 3 Hours
- Seminar: 1 Hour
- Total: 4 Hours
Lectures, assignments, anaylsis of legal issues, discussion of legal cases, and/or group activities.
- Sources of Canadian and British Columbia law
- Law of Torts
- general principles including liability insurance and vicarious liability
- intentional torts
- strict liability torts
- the tort of negligence
- Law of Contracts
- nature of a contract
- elements of a contract
- terms of a contract
- factors affecting the contractual relationship (ex. misrepresentation, illegality, undue influence)
- discharge and breach of contract
- contractual remedies
- Law of Agency
- Business Organizations
- sole proprietorships
- partnerships and limited partnerships
- corporations
- Consumer Transactions, including Sale of Goods
- Real Property Law and Environmental Protection
- Personal Property Law
- Negotiable Instruments
- Secured Transactions and Creditor's Rights
- Bankruptcy Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- trade-marks
- copyright
- patents, trade secrets and confidential information
Upon completing this course, successful students will be able to:
- describe the structure of the Canadian legal system;
- recognize the main aspects of the Canadian judicial system including the sources of law, and the levels and roles of courts in the judicial system;
- set out the difference between common law, statute law, administrative law, and criminal law;
- demonstrate a basic understanding of the law of contracts;
- describe fundamental principles of tort law and identify some of the important common law torts;
- distinguish between the main forms of business organizations;
- identify the important legal aspects pertaining to corporate governance;
- recognize key principles of the law of intellectual property, personal property, and real property (including environmental protection);
- summarize the rights and priorities that arise in a secured transaction;
- set out the main features of bankruptcy proceedings;
- recognize general characteristics of the law of negotiable instruments; and
- describe basic sources of consumer protection, including sale of goods legislation.
| Term examinations (2-3) | 55-60%* |
| Final examination | 30-35% |
| Class participation and/or assignments and/or quizzes | 5-10% |
| 100% |
*No one examination may be worth more than 40%
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Yates, Richard, T. Bereznicki-Korol, and T. Clarke, Business Law in Canada. Latest editon (Toronto: Pearson Education Canada), or
Duplessis, Dorothy, S. O'Byrne, P. King, L. Adams, and S. Enman, Canadian Business and the Law. Latest edition (Toronto: Nelson), or
Other textbook(s) as approved by the Business Law Department, and
Additional cases and/or readings as per the Instructor's discretion.