You recently completed your undergraduate studies and started a graduate position in the corporate services group at Globo Tech Pty Ltd. After your manager learned that you studied LAWS20058, you were assigned to the ‘Start-Up team as a business law specialist. You will assist clients to understand the legal requirements of establishing a new business.

Your first client is Ronald, a coffee roaster, who recently migrated to Australia from England. Ronald now lives in Sydney, where he is embarking on a new business venture. He established a coffee roasting company in Sydney’s suburbs called Backwards Pass Coffee Pty Ltd. The business will roast premium coffee that is sold to retail and wholesale clients. The business will also operate a café at its manufacturing premises. While Ronald is very experienced in the British hospitality industry, he knows little about the Australian legal system and contract law.

YOUR TASK

You must write a business report for Ronald that provides advice on all business law questions. The report will be given to Ronald at your first meeting as a resource he can use in setting up and then operating his business. Ronald can use the report to seek further advice on any specific legal issues.

PART A-FINDING LAW

An important aspect of starting and operating a new business is finding relevant laws. There are now numerous online legal resources, many of which vary in quality. Therefore business people need to be able to locate and evaluate the reliability of a vast array of legal materials. This allows the most suitable legal resource to be identified and used.

In Part A of your report you must:

1. Locate and analyse the websites for two of the following regulatory actors:

a. Court

b. Tribunal 

c. Legislature

d. Parliamentary committee

e. Statutory authority 

f. Ombudsman

The two regulatory actors must consist of one State/Territory regulatory actor and a federal regulatory actor Also, you cannot choose the same regulator for the two jurisdictions (eg. two courts).

2. Your analysis needs to identify one law for each online research source located in Part A.1 of your answer an then answer all of the following questions:

1) Identify whether the law is legislation (statute law) or case law. 2) Identify the relevant jurisdiction for the law. 3) Describe the key features of the law.