UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

MAY 2021 TRIMESTER

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

UKML1053 BUSINESS LAW

BACHELOR OF ACCOUNTING (HONOURS)

BACHELOR OF BUILDING AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (HONOURS)
BACHELOR OF ECONOMICS (HONOURS) GLOBAL ECONOMICS

GROUP ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS

Date of Submission : Monday, 9th August 2021 by 10.00 a.m.

Marks : 60 marks (to be converted to 24%)
Contribution : 24% of total Continuous Assessment marks

General Instructions for preparation of Assignment:

a. Assignment groups

• Generally, each group shall consist of a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 students

from the same tutorial group.
• Groups of 3 or fewer students and 7 or more students are strictly prohibited.
• Where a group breaches this rule, regardless of whether they have been given
permission, there will be a 5-15% reduction in their overall marks for the Group
Assignment.
• Where a tutorial class has 19 - 24 students, there should be no more than 4 groups. Where
it has 25-30 students, there should be no more than 5 groups.
Where it has more than 30 students, there should be no more than 6 groups.
• It is the sole responsibility of students, especially for those who join a class after Week
2, to look for their own assignment groups. It is not the Lecturer or Tutor's responsibility
to look for any group for them.
• Students who join a group late into the semester may, on the recommendation of the
group members, be given a 5-10% reduction in their marks from the marks awarded to
other members of the group.
• Suppose the tutorial class is already evenly divided with a maximum of 6 students per
group, and the "leftover" students are still unable to fit themselves into any group. In
that case, they are allowed to form groups of less than 4 students. Penalty or reduction
in marks shall be on a case to case basis, depending on whether these students had made
many efforts to look for a group early in the trimester.
• Each Assignment group shall elect a Group Representative whose task is to be the
middle person when communicating with the Lecturer or Tutor and perform any
registration or uploading works at WBLE.
• It is optional for the group to have a Group Leader whose task is to lead the group in
brainstorming, discussion and overall monitoring. If a group has no Group Leader, the
Group Representative shall assume both Group Rep and Group Leader roles.

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• If a Group Leader or Group Rep fails to perform their responsibilities, any member may
become the Replacement Group Leader/Rep.
• Group Leader/Representative can make a confidential recommendation on marks
reduction for any members who pass up sloppy works, submit their parts late to the
group or giving very minimal contribution.

b. Format of Assignment

• Students are strongly encouraged to use Microsoft Word (Docx) to do their Group
Assignment. You are not encouraged to use WPS or other application to do your Group
Assignment as the page alignment tends to run.
• Please download Office 365 that the University subscribes to. From there, download the
Microsoft Word application to do your Assignment.
• Please align your Assignment according to the following format:

i. One-inch margin (not one centimetre) on both sides of each page;

ii. Font: Times New Roman 12, single line spacing and justify the alignment of text
iii. The pages should be numbered.
iv. Students are required to use the template for the cover page of the Assignment as
attached with the Course Plan, which includes the following details:
▪ Name of the University and Faculty
▪ Subject code and name,
▪ Student names in alphabetical order.
▪ Student ID numbers and programme.
▪ The Group Representative's name and mobile number must be indicated in case
there is any mistake made during the submission of the Group Assignment.

c. Submission of Assignment

• Only the Group Representative is authorized to do all registration, uploading or re-

uploading works at WBLE. Do not use different members to upload different parts of
the Group Assignment.
• Students need not print a hard copy of the Group Assignment.
• Students need to upload at the WBLE "Link to upload Group Assignment" the
following:

1. Assignment File:

• Shall be a single file, containing the following page order:

i. Cover Page, Marksheet and Contents pages
ii. Question 1 (Review of one law report from Westlaw) – Write the review in
Microsoft Word format and not PDF format.

• Please label the Assignment file (according to the tutorial group and the Group
Representative's name), for example:
UKML1053-GA-T2-Lee Zii Jia-Assignment

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2. Law Report File:

• The PDF/RTF/Docx file which contains the law report that your group has been
assigned to look for from the Westlaw database. Do not look for your own law report.
• Please label the law report file in this format (example):
UKML1053-GA-T2-Lee Zii Jia-Law Report

3. Video File:

• Please label the Video file in this format (example): UKML1053-GA-T2-Lee Zii
Jia-Video
• Students are encouraged to use Microsoft Team or Zoom to record their Inter-
group Quiz Session.
• Since the video file will be large, the Group Representative shall share the actual
video file via OneDrive (if you record using Microsoft Team) or Google Drive (if
you record using Zoom) to the Lecturer.
• The video file must be able to be downloaded by the Lecturer.
• The video file can be in any format that can be played over Windows Media Player
or VLC Media Player. Using Microsoft Team or Zoom is the most convenient
method.

d. Assignment Answers:

• The research materials for this Assignment may be sourced from academic journal
articles or cases retrieved from the UTAR library database (e.g. Westlaw, Scopus,
Science Direct, Proquest, Ebscohost).
• It may also be from Google Scholar, CLJ legal network, Lexis-Nexis, and other law-
related professional magazines or publications.
• Opinions of authors as found in law textbooks may also be a source of reference.
• Any cases referred to must have the full citation in-text, e.g. [1967] 1 MLJ 101. The
APA referencing style may be used.

QUESTION 1

Writing a review of one law report (30 marks)

• This Assignment aims to help students develop the skills to read law reports to understand
how disputes are decided upon by the courts and the lessons to be drawn from each case.

• Each Group Representative must register their Group members first at the WBLE "Link
to Register Assignment Group".

• Then each group will be given the name of one (1) law report to look for and retrieve from
the Westlaw database (available at the Utar library online database). Do not look for your
own law report.

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• Required: Provide a write up on your review of the law report. For example:

i. Summarise in your own words the dispute (what the parties were fighting over).
ii. Briefly describe the topic, sub-topic or area of law that the law report covers.
iii. Briefly describe or summarise, in your own words, the main points covered by the law
report or the legal issues involved.
iv. Summarise the court's decision(s) and reasons.
v. Give your own comments or reflection on the case in the law report. For example:
▪ Explain the connection between the court's decisions and any legal principles that
you have learnt.
▪ Identify the lessons to be learnt from that case: For example, how the parties could
have done things differently or what precautions or steps they should have taken.

• Estimated length of the review of the law report:

▪ No. (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) combined: 3 to 5 pages
▪ No. (v); 1 to 2 pages

• Use single spacing, Times News Roman 12 and divide your write-up into different
paragraphs.

Marking Criteria:

No. Marking Criteria Marks

1 The write-up contains 15 marks
i. a summary of the dispute (what the parties were fighting over).
ii. a brief description of the topic, sub-topic or area of law that the law
report covers.
iii. a brief description or summary of the main points covered by the law
report or the legal issues involved.
iv. a summary of the court's decision(s) and reasons.

2 The write-up contains students' own comments or reflection on the case in 10 marks
the law report. For example:
▪ Students explain the connection between the court's decisions and any
legal principles that they have learnt.
▪ Students identify the lessons to be learnt from the case: For example,
how the parties could have done things differently or what precautions
or steps they should have taken.

3 Absence of grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors throughout the 5 marks

write-up.
Sub-total for Question 1 30 marks

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QUESTION 2

Inter-group Oral Quiz (30 marks)

• Each Assignment group shall arrange with another assignment group (within the same
tutorial group) to conduct an Oral Quiz at Microsoft Team or Zoom.

• How the Oral Quiz is to be conducted:

▪ For example, Group 1 (of Tutorial Group 1) is the host of the Oral Quiz session.
Group 1 members will be the "candidates" who need to answer questions.
▪ Group 1 shall arrange with Group 2 (within the same Tutorial Group 1).
Group 2 members will be the "examiners", who will pose questions to Group 1.
▪ Each group in a tutorial class will need to go through one round of Oral Quiz as
"candidates" and one round as "examiners.
▪ Example of sequence as candidates or examiners:
o Group 1 (as candidates) vs Group 2 (as examiners)
o Group 2 (as candidates) vs Group 3 (as examiners)
o Group 3 (as candidates) vs Group 4 (as examiners)
o Group 4 (as candidates) vs Group 5 (as examiners)
o Group 5 (as candidates) vs Group 6 (as examiners)
o Group 6 (as candidates) vs Group 1 (as examiners)
▪ Whether as "candidates" or "examiners", all group members must be present in the Oral
Quiz session.
▪ All members of a "candidate" group must make efforts to answer any question, while
all members of an "examiner" group must make efforts to ask questions. Marks will be
deducted if any group member shows very little participation.
▪ Recording and submitting Video File is by the "candidate" Group, not the "examiner"
Group.
▪ The "examiner" group does not need to conduct any evaluation of the candidates. They
may provide feedback to the candidates. The Lecturer will evaluate after viewing the
video recording.

• The Oral Quiz questions:

▪ Length of time of Oral Quiz: minimum 1.5 to maximum 3 hours.
▪ The questions will be from Topic 1 to Topic 2 (Part 1 and 2).
▪ The questions shall comprise a series of questions that require the candidates to provide
oral explanation or elaboration. No limit on the number of questions.
▪ The questions shall test the candidates' understanding of what they have picked up so
far from the subject and their understanding of fundamental concepts.
▪ For example, the examiners may ask: "Please explain whether two sisters can enter
into a legally binding contract." Or create a scenario (cannot be from tutorial
questions) for the candidates to answer.
▪ The candidates may refer to any books, lecture notes, published materials, online
resources etc., when going through the oral Quiz.
▪ However, the candidates are discouraged from spending too much time referring to their
materials. Instead, they are encouraged to articulate clearly their answers to questions
asked. Marks will be deducted if the candidates keep quiet for a prolonged period of
silence.

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▪ Apart from just answering the questions, the candidates must be able to elaborate
further, i.e. give additional points, illustrations or examples that show that they have
studied the Topics extensively and deeply understand the contents of the Topics.
▪ As for the examiners, they are encouraged to send their questions to the Lecturer first,
in case their questions are too simple, too straightforward and not suitable to test the
candidates.
▪ All members of an "examiner" group are strictly prohibited from disclosing or leaking
out their questions to the "candidate" group. Marks will be deducted if it is clear from
the video that the whole session has already been well-rehearsed by both groups and
the entire session is a sham.

• All students are required to turn on their camera and microphone throughout the oral Quiz
session. Marks will be deducted for any group with member(s) who fail to do so.
• The period of oral Quiz session: Week 7 to Week 10

Marking Criteria

No. Marking Criteria for Oral Quiz Maximum

1 Ability to answer questions (Depth, Thoroughness, Insight, 12
Research efforts)

• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of the topic by responding

confidently, precisely and appropriately to all questions or comments
posted by the examiners. Able to successfully think or analyze "on
one's feet" or on the spot.
• Contribute much relevant, accurate and complete explanation of key
concepts and principles; Develop ideas by speaking in multiple
sentences; Consistent performance across the entire session.
• Put additional efforts to research information; solicit material in
addition to what was provided; bring in unique ideas, insights and
information to enhance the Oral Quiz answers.

2 Fluency and articulation 8

• The candidates' speeches are natural and continuous; no unnatural

pauses, poised, clear articulation; Able to maintain interaction—sound
volume; steady rate; Good eye contact; Enthusiastic and confident
• Demonstrate extensive legal vocabulary; Almost always uses
appropriate legal terms or phrases; Rarely need to struggle to search for
the correct legal terms or phrases.

3 Role as Examiners 10

• When examining another Group, the examiners are able to ask critical
or thought-provoking questions.

Sub-total for Question 2 30 marks

[Total: 60 marks]

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