Urban Development Law

Please refer to the documents attached.Subject area is Law, in particular Urban Development Law and Business/Commerce.Essay in Report format.Assignment GuidelinesThe purpose of the Task is to provide a report to advise your client, a fictional private company, regarding three specific questions.Please: Do not quote whole sections of any Act in the body of your Report and do not include these as an attachment.Please write in third person.The word limit is 3,000 words in total as an absolute maximum.Required Format Answers must be typewritten, should be in connected prose and must be in a Report style format. To be clear – for this Task bullet points are not appropriate. The submission must: a) Advise the client as directed in a logical and concise manner and in a report style format; Do not repeat the scenario in your Report.b) Demonstrate an understanding of legal citation by use of APA in-text referencing style. c) Clearly communicate your ideas and arguments, and use correct grammar and spelling. Marks are allocated for correct referencing, evidence of research and communication.d) Be typed in 12-point font (Times New Roman or Arial), with 1.5 line spacing and margins of at least 2cm; e) Be on A4 size white paper;f) Have a page number on each page;g) Be 10 x A4 pages approximately (not including any cover page);h) Not exceed 3,000 words. This is an absolute. The word limit includes all material including in text referencing. Quotes also are included in the word count, as well as words like ‘a’ and ‘the.’ Material exceeding the word limit will not be read or marked. Only the Reference List (and any cover page) is not included in the word count.ReferencingAll submissions should be appropriately referenced. This means that if you are quoting or paraphrasing a principle from a case, Act, standard, industry code or other primary source, or taking an idea from something you have read you should provide a reference indicating the source. Google or Wikipedia or other types of websites are not appropriate reference sources. References must be provided and you must be consistent in the style used. Footnotes and or Endnotes must not be used. Please: do not quote whole sections of any Act in the body of your Report, or as an attachment.LinksThese may be useful:Partnership Act 1981 (Qld) https://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/LEGISLTN/CURRENT/P/PartnerA1891.pdfCorporations Act 2001 (Cth) https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00199Business Names Registration Act 2011 (Cth)https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2016C00723Australian Government https://www.business.gov.auThe Textbook: Law in Commerce 6th Edition.  B. Sweeney, J. O’Reilly, A. Coleman.LexisNexis ButterworthsThese are provided as suggested resources and are not the limit of what either is relevant or what you may wish to research or review.Research Assignment Scenario and QuestionSubject: Urban Development LawOld Tafford Consulting Pty Ltd (‘OTC’) is a long established private company operating in the state of Queensland, Australia. It has 15 shareholders, five (5) of whom form the Board of Directors.In 2016 its Chief Executive Officer (‘CEO’) Wayne Fergusson convinces the Board that they need to expand their operations in order to grow. The Board of Directors of OTC decide to establish a new business, which will provide I.T. support specifically to small construction companies in Brisbane. The new business will be called ‘Tafford Tech’. The Board, however, cannot agree as to what the best structure for the new business should be.The proposal at this stage is that Tafford Tech: – will employ 25 full time staff; o José, one of the more vocal shareholders, thinks it would be better to engage these people as contractors instead; – be based in offices in a new commercial building in Brisbane’s CBD;- have a manager who is responsible for day to day operations;- be set up so that each shareholder of OTC will have an equal interest in the new business whatever format it is in. The Board of OTC wants to make sure it understands all obligations and that it establishes the best structure possible for the new business. In order to make a presentation to the shareholders at a special meeting in three weeks’ time, Wayne comes to you for advice. You are to provide a report to Wayne for him to present to the Board.In your report you are to advise the CEO and CFO of Old Tafford Consulting Pty Ltd (‘OTC’) specifically about: 1. business structures 2. liability issues 3. what should be done to protect the name ‘Tafford Tech’ now and into the future
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