Business law assignment

Submission and Deadline: You should submit your assignment as a PDF document using Turnitin on Moodle by the deadline of Monday 15th March 2021 at 14.00h CET

Word count: Every student should write one essay of between 1,500 to 1,750 words (not including the bibliography) on the following title. Part a should be between 1,000 and 1,250 words and part b should be between 500 and 750 words.

Title:
Part a: What remedies exist for the breach of a contract and under what circumstances would a claimant seek to make use of these different solutions?

Part b, problem question: Whilst drunk Tom won an auction unintentionally. The auctioneer knew that Tom was drunk. Is Tom expected to pay for the item that he won in the auction? Justify your answer.

Research and referencing: Your work should be fully referenced using the Harvard referencing system

Plagiarism: You must ensure that your work does not fall foul of EU Business School ́s plagiarism rules or you risk seeing your grade either being capped or you risk failing this summative assignment.

BC0125 BUSINESS LAW (3CH/ 4 ECTS) Task brief & rubrics

Task

Summative assignment 1

This assignment is worth 40% of all marks for this course and you have to complete it individually.

Submission and Deadline: You should submit your assignment as a PDF document using Turnitin on Moodle by the deadline of Monday 15th March 2021 at
14.00h CET

Word count: Every student should write one essay of between 1,500 to 1,750 words (not including the bibliography) on the following title. Part a should be
between 1,000 and 1,250 words and part b should be between 500 and 750 words.

Title:

Part a: What remedies exist for the breach of a contract and under what circumstances would a claimant seek to make use of these different solutions?

Part b, problem question: Whilst drunk Tom won an auction unintentionally. The auctioneer knew that Tom was drunk. Is Tom expected to pay for the item that
he won in the auction? Justify your answer.

Research and referencing: Your work should be fully referenced using the Harvard referencing system

Plagiarism: You must ensure that your work does not fall foul of EU Business School´s plagiarism rules or you risk seeing your grade either being capped or you
risk failing this summative assignment.

Rubric

Exceptional
90-100

Good
80-89

Fair
70-79

Fail
<70

Knowledge &
understanding

(35%)

Student demonstrates a
systematic and thorough
understanding of the theory
delivered in class, applying
relevant knowledge to the
question.

Student demonstrates good
understanding of the theory
delivered in class, applying some
relevant knowledge to the
question (some minor details might
be missing)

Student demonstrates some
understanding of the theory
delivered in class, applying some
knowledge to the question (key
details might be missing and there
may be some irrelevance)

Student demonstrates an insufficient
understanding of the theory
delivered in class. Key knowledge is
not applied to the in question and
information is of little or no
relevance.

Critical
evaluation

(35%)

Student critically engages with
theory and its application,
considering alternative
perspectives/ possibilities with
authority.

Makes excellently sound
judgements in the absence of
complete data

Student makes a good attempt at
critically engaging with theory and
its application, considering
alternative perspectives/
possibilities.

Makes good judgements in the
absence of complete data

Student makes some attempt at
critically engaging with theory
and/or its application.

Makes some judgements in the
absence of complete data

Student makes no attempt to
critically engage with theory or
application.

Fails to make judgements in the
absence of complete data

Communication

(20%)

Student communicates their ideas
extremely clearly and concisely,
making excellent use of visuals to
support their message.

Student communicates their ideas
clearly and concisely, making good
use of visuals to support their
message.

Student communicates their ideas
with some clarity and concision.
Visuals are used to support their
message successfully at times.

Student fails to communicate their
ideas clearly and concisely. Visuals
are poor and do not support the
message.

Synthesis

(10%)

Student synthesizes the content
of their presentation with
exceptional clarity and concision

Student synthesizes the content of
their presentation with some
clarity and concision

Student synthesizes the content of
their presentation, although work
lacks clarity and/or concision

Student makes an insufficient
attempt to synthesize, with a lack of
clarity and concision.