Postgraduate Certificate in Law (E-Learning)

COURSE MODULES

Intellectual Property Practice (Malaysia)

Intake/Commencement Date: OCTOBER 2023

Assessment: Online Assessment, Individual Written Assignment & Final Exam

The purpose of this practice-based subject is to advance on a learner’s knowledge towards specialised and integrated understandings about Intellectual Property Practice in Malaysian contexts.

Topics include :

• Intellectual property framework in Malaysian contexts
• Advanced issues in copyright practice in Malaysia
• Advanced issues in trade mark practice in Malaysia
• Advanced issues in industrial designs practice in Malaysian contexts
• Advanced issues in geographical indications practice in Malaysian contexts
• Advanced issues in patent practice in Malaysian contexts, and protection of intellectual property rights, enforcement, and disputes in Malaysia

Learning Objectives :

This subject aims to help students develop specialised knowledge and skills for professional practice and further learning in the area of Intellectual Property Practice in Malaysian contexts. The learning objectives and criteria for assessment of learning outcomes are directed to professional, effective, and practical presentation of work, oral and written communication skills, demonstration of relevant content knowledge, demonstration of relevant practical knowledge, higher-order thinking, with advanced and integrated application of professional knowledge and skills.

Commercial Contracts Practice (Malaysia)

Intake/Commencement Date: FEBRUARY 2024

Assessment: Online Assessment, Individual Written Assignment & Final Exam

This practice-based subject advances on a learner’s foundational knowledge towards specialised and integrated understandings about commercial contracts practice.

Upon satisfactory completion of this subject, the learner will understand fundamental concepts and practices in commercial contracts practice and have a synoptic understanding of how to develop and apply this knowledge in professional practice. The learner will be able to use and explain this knowledge to specialist and non-specialist audiences. Using practice-based analytical and critical thinking skills, the learner will be able to apply this knowledge to problem-solving and decision-making in practice. This subject also provides the foundations to develop reflective approaches to objective and subjective analyses of individual and social dimensions of applied law and professional practice in commercial contracts practice in a range of contexts.

The ability to draft effective, readable, non-ambiguous contracts is an essential and valuable skill for every commercial lawyer. This practice-based subject advances on the key knowledge and skill required by all lawyers when negotiating and drafting commercial contracts.

Learning Objectives :

• Demonstrate advanced and integrated understandings of commercial contracts practice
• Apply these understandings to problem-solving and decision-making in practice
• Apply these understandings to critically analyse and evaluate your own professional practice, toward accountability and improvement
• Identify opportunities to develop expertise, autonomy, adaptability, and specialised knowledge and skills for professional practice and learning
• Identify and explain the key legal principles governing the formation of contracts to specialise and non-specialist audiences
• Demonstrate effective client interviewing skills to ensure that a client provides all information critical to the contractual terms
• Draft documents, such as a Memorandum of Understanding, that reflect clients’ commercial objectives in a range of contexts
• Draft readable documents, such as contracts, that integrate correct structure, clear language, risk management, and achieve clients’ commercial objectives in a range of contexts
• Demonstrate critical and practical understandings about the appropriate use of boilerplate clauses and precedent documents
• Demonstrate effective negotiation techniques in commercial contracts practice contexts

Mergers and Acquisitions Practice (Malaysia)

Intake/Commencement Date: NOVEMBER 2023

Assessment: Online Assessment, Individual Written Assignment & Final Exam

This practice-based subject advances on a student’s knowledge towards specialised and integrated understandings about mergers and acquisitions (M&A) practice in Malaysia. It will examine good operating practices and consider key issues when planning and executing M&A transactions.

Topics include :

• Planning acquisitions in Malaysia
• Origins and opportunities for M&A practice in Malaysia
• Avenues to M&A transactions in Malaysia
• Advanced due diligence issues in Malaysian M&A practice
• Design and development of M&A transactions in Malaysia
• Laws, regulation and governance in Malaysian M&A practice, and post-deal considerations in Malaysian M&A practice.

Learning Objectives :

At the end of this subject the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate advanced and integrated understandings of Malaysian M&A legal professional practice
• Apply these understandings to problem-solving and decision-making in practice
• Apply these understandings to critically analyse and evaluate the learner’s own professional practice, toward accountability and improvement
• Identify opportunities to develop expertise, autonomy, adaptability, specialised knowledge and skills for professional practice and learning
• Analyse and critically discuss drivers of M&A activities and methods for effecting M&A transactions
• Develop steps in a due diligence plan and verify insights arising from the due diligence process in special situations
• Advise about strategies and frameworks for structuring the terms of the deal involving special situations
• Use advanced critical analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making skills to advise about Malaysian disclosure and reporting requirements in special situations, and
• Critically discuss and design approaches in selected scenarios in a post-deal context.

Banking and Finance Practice (Malaysia)

Intake/Commencement Date: MARCH 2024

Assessment: Online Assessment, Individual Written Assignment & Final Exam

 The purpose of this practice-based subject is to advance on student's knowledge towards specialised and integrated understandings about Banking and Finance Practice (Malaysia).

 Topics include:

• legal and regulatory framework for banking and finance in Malaysia
• lending and security in Malaysia
• loan recovery and enforcement of security in Malaysia
• financial instruments in international trade in Malaysia
• debt capital markets in Malaysia
• project financing in emerging Malaysian markets, and emerging challenges to traditional financing

Learning Objectives:

 The learning objectives and criteria for assessment of learning outcomes are directed to professional, effective, and practical presentation of work, oral and written communication skills, demonstration of relevant content knowledge, demonstration of relevant practical knowledge, higher-order thinking, with advanced and integrated application of professional knowledge and skills.