Business Law : UEL.

Cover -- Business law -- Brief contents -- Detailed contents -- Preface -- Guided tour -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of European legislation -- Study skills -- The legal system -- Introduction -- Features of the english legal system -- Classification of english law -- Sources of english law -- European union law -- The european convention on human rights -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 1 -- The courts and legal personnel -- Introduction -- The civil courts -- The criminal courts -- Procedure in the civil courts -- Alternative dispute resolution -- The legal profession -- The judiciary -- Juries -- Law reform -- Law reporting -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 2 -- Formation of contracts - offer and acceptance -- Introduction -- Offer -- Acceptance -- Certainty -- Offer and acceptance when dealing with machines -- Acceptance of an offer of a unilateral contract -- Termination of offers -- Battle of the forms -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 3 -- Other requirements of a contract - intention to create legal relations � consideration � formalities � capacity -- Introduction -- Intention to create legal relations -- Consideration -- Formalities -- Capacity -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 4 -- Contractual terms -- Introduction -- Nature of contractual terms -- Express terms distinguished from representations -- Implied terms -- Types of terms -- Exclusion clauses -- The unfair contract terms act 1977 -- The unfair terms in consumer contracts regulations 1999 -- Consumer guarantees -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 5 -- Misrepresentation � mistake � duress and undue influence � illegality -- Introduction.

Misrepresentation -- Mistake -- Duress and undue influence -- Illegal and void contracts -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Discharge of liability � remedies for breach of contract -- Introduction -- Discharge of liability -- Remedies for breach of contract -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 7 -- Terms implied by statute -- Introduction -- The sale of goods act 1979 -- The terms implied by the sale of goods act 1979 -- Implied terms in contracts other than sales of goods -- The status of the statutory implied terms -- Exclusion of the statutory implied terms -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 8 -- Sale of goods - the passing of ownership -- Introduction -- The passing of the property and the risk -- Reservation of title clauses -- Sale by a person who is not the owner -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 9 -- Sale of goods - duties of the parties � remedies � international sales -- Introduction -- Duties of the seller -- Duties of the buyer -- Remedies of the seller -- Remedies of the buyer -- Auction sales -- International sales -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 10 -- Agency -- Introduction -- The concept of agency -- Creation of agency -- Liability on contracts made by agents -- Duties of the agent -- The rights of the agent -- Termination of agency -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 11 -- The law of torts 1 -- Introduction -- Nature of tortious liability -- Negligence -- Negligent misstatement -- The consumer protection act 1987 Part I -- The occupiers' liability acts 1957 and 1984 -- Time limits -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 12 -- The law of torts 2 -- Introduction -- Private nuisance.

Public nuisance -- Strict liability (the rule in rylands v fletcher) -- Trespass to land -- Trespass to the person -- Trespass to goods -- Defamation -- Vicarious liability -- The tort of breach of statutory duty -- Economic torts -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 13 -- Credit transactions -- Introduction -- The consumer credit acts 1974 and 2006 -- Types of credit transactions -- Interest on trade debts -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 14 -- Partnership -- Introduction -- The nature of partnership -- The definition of a partnership -- Specific indications as to whether or not a partnership exists -- The partnership agreement -- Partners' relationship with each other -- Partnership property -- Partners' fiduciary duties to each other -- Partners' relationship with outsiders -- Dissolution and winding up -- Limited partners -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 15 -- The nature of a company and formation of a company -- Introduction -- The companies act 2006 -- The nature of a company -- The corporate veil -- Classification of companies -- Formation of registered companies -- The constitution of a company -- Off-the-shelf companies -- Contracts made before the company is formed -- The company name -- The registrar of companies -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 16 -- The management of a company -- Introduction -- Directors -- The company secretary -- The auditor -- Company registers -- The annual return -- Accounts and accounting records -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 17 -- Shareholders � resolutions � maintenance of capital � minority protection � debentures -- Introduction -- Shareholders -- The nature of shares.

Becoming a shareholder of a company with a share capital -- Company resolutions and meetings -- The legal effect of the constitution -- Maintenance of capital -- Insider dealing -- Protection of minority shareholders -- Loan capital -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 18 -- Winding up of companies � limited liability partnerships � benefits of trading as a company, partnership or limited liability pa -- Introduction -- Winding up of companies -- Limited liability partnerships -- Choice of legal status -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 19 -- Employment 1 - duties of employer and employee � dismissal � redundancy -- Introduction -- Employees contrasted with independent contractors -- The terms of the contract of employment -- Termination of employment -- Unfair dismissal -- Redundancy -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 20 -- Employment 2 - discrimination � health and safety � rights of employees -- Introduction -- Overview of the equality act 2010 -- The protected characteristics -- Types of personal characteristic discrimination -- Equality of terms -- Public sector equality duty -- Positive action -- Discrimination against persons with criminal records -- Discrimination against part-time workers -- Discrimination against fixed-term workers -- The agency workers regulations 2010 -- Health and safety -- Maternity and paternity rights -- Adoption leave and pay -- Flexible working for parents -- The national minimum wage -- The transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) regulations 2006 (tupe) -- The working time regulations 1998 -- Authorised deductions from wages -- Time off work -- Procedure for bringing a claim before an employment tribunal -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 21.

Regulation of business by the imposition of criminal liability -- Introduction -- The nature of a crime -- The consumer protection from unfair trading regulations 2008 -- The business protection from misleading marketing regulations 2008 -- Product safety -- The computer misuse act 1990 -- Enforcement of consumer law -- Competition law -- The bribery act 2010 -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 22 -- Business property -- Introduction -- Legal concepts of property -- Copyright -- Patents -- Trade marks -- The data protection act 1998 -- Key points -- Summary questions -- Multiple choice questions -- Task 23 -- Appendix: Answers to Test your understanding questions -- Bibliography -- Index.

MacIntyre’s Business Law is the foremost text for non-law students. Questions test their understanding at each stage, key points guide their learning and tasks allow them to relate and apply what they have learned to business examples. All of these features are highlighted in full colour to ease navigation and understanding. In addition, new bulleted chapter introductions help students to break down each area of the law into manageable sections allowing them to fully grasp all aspects of business law confidently.

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