Law for Business Students, 11th Edition

Cover
Praise for Law for Business
Law For Business Students
Pearson
Title
Copyright
Brief Contents
Contents
Publishers Acknowledgements
Preface
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Table of statutory instruments
Table of European
Part 1:Introduction: getting started
	1 Study skills
		Introduction
		Starting to study
		Good study habits
		Writing law assignments
		Revision and examination technique
		Conclusion
	2 The nature of law
		Introduction
		What is law?
		The characteristics of English law
		Why do we need law?
		The differences between criminal and civil law
		Changing the law
		Essential legal terms
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 1
		Advanced questions 1
		Further reading
		Web activity
	3 How the law is made
		Introduction
		European law
		Parliament
		The courts
		The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998)
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 2
		Advanced questions 2
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 1
	4 Resolving legal disputes
		Introduction
		The court system
		Bringing a case in the civil courts
		The Woolf reforms 1999
		Settlement out of court
		Payment into court and offers to settle
		Civil litigation procedures
		The trial of the case
		Executing the judgment
		Alternative dispute resolution (ADR)
		The tribunal system
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 3
		Advanced questions 3
		Web activity
		Assignment 2
Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods
	5 The law of contract: Offer and acceptance
		Introduction
		The essentials of a binding contract
		The offer
		The acceptance
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 4
		Advanced questions 4
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 3
	6 The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity
		Introduction
		Consideration
		Intention to create legal relations
		Privity of contract
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 5
		Advanced questions 5
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 4
	7 The terms of the contract at common law
		Introduction
		Express and implied terms
		The relative importance of contractual terms
		Exemption clauses: Limitation and exclusion of liability
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 6
		Advanced questions 6
		Take a closer look
		Further reading
		Assignment 5
	8 Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services
		Introduction
		Part 1: Commercial sales contracts
		The terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979
		Other key statutes which regulate contracts involving goods
		Part 2: Consumer sales
		An overview of consumer sales protection before the CRA 2015
		The Consumer Rights Act 2015
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 7
		Advanced questions 7
		Take a closer look
		Further reading
		Assignment 6
	9 Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence
		Introduction
		Misrepresentation
		Mistake
		Duress and undue influence
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 8
		Advanced questions 8
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 7
	10 The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity
		Introduction
		Illegality
		Contractual incapacity
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 9
		Advanced questions 9
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 8
	11 Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach
		Introduction
		Discharge of contracts
		Remedies for breach of contract
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 10
		Advanced questions 10
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 9
	12 The law of agency
		Introduction
		The creation of agency
		The rights and duties of the agent
		The rights and duties of the principal
		Termination of agency
		Some common types of specialist agents
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 11
		Advanced questions 11
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 10
Part 3: The law of tort
	13 The tort of negligence
		Introduction
		Negligence liability
		1 The duty of care
		2 Breach of duty
		3 Proving consequential loss or damage
		Defences in tort
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 12
		Advanced questions 12
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 11
	14 Negligence and special duty situations
		Introduction
		Special duty situations
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 13
		Advanced questions 13
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 12
	15 Product liability
		Introduction
		Liability for defective products
		The Consumer Protection Act 1987 (Part I)
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 14
		Advanced questions 14
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 13
	16 Occupiers’ liability, nuisance and vicarious liability
		Introduction
		The occupier’s liability to people on the premises
		Duties of an occupier to people outside the premises
		Vicarious liability
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 15
		Advanced questions 15
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 14
Part 4: Elements of employment law
	17 Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work
		Introduction
		The employment contract: a contract of service
		The law of tort: employers’ civil liability for industrial injuries
		Criminal law regulation of safety in the workplace
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 16
		Advanced questions 16
		Take a closer look
		Further reading
		Web activity
		Assignment 15
	18 Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment
		Introduction
		The Equality Act 2010: the core provisions
		The operation of the Equality Act 2010
		Age
		Disability
		Gender re-assignment
		Marriage and civil partnership
		Pregnancy and maternity
		Race
		Religion or belief
		Sex
		Sexual orientation
		Enforcing anti-discrimination legislation
		The promotion of equality
		The Equality and Human Rights Commission
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 17
		Advanced questions 17
		Take a closer look
		Further reading
		Web activity
		Assignment 16
	19 Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy
		Introduction
		Wrongful dismissal
		Unfair dismissal
		Redundancy
		Transfer of undertakings
		Claiming at the employment tribunal
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 18
		Advanced questions 18
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 17
Part 5: Introduction to company law
	20 Business organisations
		Introduction
		Legal personality, incorporation and limited liability
		The sole trader
		The partnership
		The registered company
		The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) on business organisations
		Conclusion
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 19
		Advanced questions 19
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 18
	21 Forming a registered company
		Introduction
		Promoting the company
		Forming the company
		Buying a company ‘off the shelf’
		Dissolution of the company
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 20
		Advanced questions 20
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 19
	22 Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital
		Introduction
		Share capital
		Loan capital
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 21
		Advanced questions 21
		Web activity
		Assignment 20
	23 The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors
		Introduction
		The directors
		The company secretary
		The auditors of the company
		Insider dealing
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 22
		Advanced questions 22
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 21
	24 Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection
		Introduction
		General meetings
		Protecting the rights of minority shareholders
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 23
		Advanced questions 23
		Web activity
		Assignment 22
Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law
	25 Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trade marks
		Introduction
		Statutory regulation of intellectual property
		The impact of EU law and international treaties on intellectual property rights
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 24
		Advanced questions 24
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 23
	26 Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence
		Introduction
		Passing off
		Malicious falsehood
		Breach of confidence and protection of privacy
		Remedies for passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence
		Chapter summary
		Review questions 25
		Advanced questions 25
		Take a closer look
		Web activity
		Assignment 24
	Appendix 1: Additional resources
	Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and Review questions – outline answers
	Index