Apply Legal Principles in Contract and Consumer Law

Assessment Information - Overview

This is assessment task 1 of 3 assessment tasks. You must successfully complete all 3 tasks to achieve competency.

You must be able to show evidence of the ability to research legislation in relation to contract and consumer law and apply that knowledge to a specific situation.

This assessment is competency based and a CAG (competent) must be achieved for this assessment. The assessment will be graded (once competency is achieved) according to the grading policy for assessments those being, CAG (competent), CC (credit), CDI (Distinction) or CHD (High distinction).

Assessment Task -

For this task you will assume that you are employed by a large accounting firm, and are working in the legal department within that firm, reporting to one of the organisation's senior managers.

You are required to work in pairs to research the function of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). You must report to your senior manager on how the Act has been enforced by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in the last six (6) months. You are to do this by drawing on a recent example (of not more than six months ago) of the ACCC enforcing the consumer protection provisions found in Schedule 2 of the Act. You are to research, analyse and explain a specific example of conduct that would be found to be in contravention of Schedule 2, and summarise what action the ACCC took against the offending corporation.

The presentation: You are required to prepare your report in the form of a PowerPoint or Prezzi..You may use a combination of content forms, such as text, audio, images, animations, video or interactive content. The presentation should be designed in a manner that would be suitable in the workplace. Your presentation should cover the main points of your findings, and must be submitted on the Blackboard. You must prepare a minimum of eight (8) slides and a maximum of twelve (12).