CS Executive Paper 6 (ECIPL) study plan

Map the Companies Act, 2013 incorporation pathway end to end: promoter, pre-incorporation contracts, SPICe+ filing, certificate of incorporation, and consequences of incorporation, and write a one-page flowchart from memory.

Distinguish public, private, one person, small, and dormant companies by threshold criteria and state the compliance relaxations each enjoys, tabulating at least eight differences.

Work through the doctrine of lifting the corporate veil by listing at least six judicial grounds and matching each to a fact pattern you construct yourself.

Draft a 15-line note on the doctrine of ultra vires, the indoor management rule (Turquand) and constructive notice, explaining when an outsider loses protection.

Trace the prospectus regime: public offer, shelf and red herring prospectus, deemed prospectus, contents under the Act and ICDR disclosure themes, and remedies for misstatement under sections 34 and 35.

Explain allotment mechanics: minimum subscription, application money, 30-day return rule, and the consequences of irregular allotment.

Analyse share capital vocabulary - authorised, issued, subscribed, paid-up, nominal value, premium, sweat equity, bonus and rights issue - and compute a worked example of a rights issue entitlement.

Summarise the rules on further issue of capital, private placement, preferential allotment and the restrictions on buy-back, then list the penalties for non-compliance.

Reconstruct the board and management framework: appointment, disqualification, independent and woman directors, DIN, resignation, removal, and the KMP roles.

Compare board powers, shareholder powers and reserved matters requiring special resolution, and identify at least ten items that cannot be decided by the board alone.

Diagram the meeting machinery: notice periods for board and general meetings, quorum, proxies, postal ballot, e-voting, adjournment, and special notice.

Apply the related party transaction and loan-to-director restrictions to three short fact patterns you draft yourself and state the approval route in each.

Classify the essentials of a valid contract and label each element in a clause-by-clause analysis of a sample commercial agreement you write yourself.

Distinguish void, voidable, illegal and unenforceable agreements and map consideration exceptions with case-agnostic examples.

Apply free consent doctrines - coercion, undue influence, fraud, misrepresentation, mistake - to four short scenarios and state the remedy for each.

State the rules on performance, discharge, frustration and breach, and compute damages under Hadley v Baxendale principles in a worked example.

Summarise the Specific Relief Act remedies: specific performance, injunction (temporary, perpetual, mandatory), declaratory relief, rectification and rescission, noting where damages are the only remedy.

Differentiate a contract of sale from an agreement to hire purchase and from a contract for work, and state the consequences of the distinction for property transfer.

Apply the rules on transfer of property and risk: goods perished before or after contract, sale by non-owner, nemo dat exceptions, and the unpaid seller's rights of lien, stoppage in transit and resale.

Draft the conditions and warranties framework with the implied conditions as to title, description, sample and merchantability, and state the buyer's remedies.

Map the Negotiable Instruments Act: promissory note, bill of exchange and cheque definitions, holder and holder in due course, negotiation, endorsement, and the presentment rules.

Explain dishonour of cheques under section 138 including the demand notice timeline, cause of action and the 2020s developments on interim compensation, and solve one timeline problem.

State the essentials of a partnership, the authority of a partner, the liability of a firm for wrongful acts, and the effect of the doctrine of holding out and the non-registration bar on suits.

Explain dissolution grounds and the consequences for continuing authority, and distinguish partnership from LLP on liability, registration, perpetual succession and governance.

Summarise the LLP Act framework: incorporation documents, LLP agreement, designated partners, contribution, and the compliance calendar for annual filings.

Outline Competition Act essentials: anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, combinations and thresholds, the Competition Commission's powers, and the leniency regime.

Consolidate the Factories Act: definitions of factory and worker, occupier liability, approval, licensing and registration, and the working hours, leave and safety provisions, listing at least twelve duties of the occupier.

Summarise the Industrial Disputes Act machinery: works committee, conciliation, adjudication, strikes and lockouts, lay-off, retrenchment, and the closure rules with the applicable thresholds.

State the core entitlements under the EPF Act, Payment of Gratuity Act and ESI Act - coverage thresholds, contribution rates, eligibility, calculation formulae and the authorities for dispute resolution.

Outline FEMA: current versus capital account transactions, permitted transactions, export and import of goods and services, and the compounding of contraventions.

Summarise the PMLA offence, attachment and confiscation, reporting obligations of financial institutions, and the appellate mechanism, plus the IBC's corporate insolvency resolution timeline and the roles of the IRP, CoC and NCLT.

Map the Consumer Protection Act: who is a consumer, unfair and restrictive trade practices, product liability, the three-tier commissions and their pecuniary jurisdiction, and e-commerce and mediation provisions.

Outline the allied commercial statutes covered in the syllabus - the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, the SARFAESI Act, the Standards of Weights and Measures regime and the Registration Act - at the level of purpose, key authority and one landmark rule each.

Revisit the two heaviest domains by re-solving every question you got wrong in weeks 1 to 4 and rewriting each as a fresh fact pattern.

Take two timed full-length mock tests under exam conditions and score them against the marking scheme.

Build a final one-page revision sheet of every statutory threshold, timeline and monetary limit collected across the eight weeks.