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Business Law provides an introduction to the subject. Packed with up-to-date and relevant examples, it demonstrates the real applicability of the law to the business world. The book contains a number of parts. After an introduction about studying the law, the first part covers the law, the constitution, and human rights. It looks at statutory interpretation and the legislative process, and court structures. The next part looks at the law and the European Union. The third part considers contractual obligations. The book goes on to consider terms, such as contracts, contractual capacity, mistake, misrepresentation, duress, contractual terms, regulation, and remedies for breach. The next part is about tortious liability and describes issues of negligence, nuisance, economic loss, psychiatric injury, and statutory duties. The part that comes next is about employment. This is followed by an examination of company law. Finally, intellectual property issues are considered.Less

Business Law provides an introduction to the subject. Packed with up-to-date and relevant examples, it demonstrates the real applicability of the law to the business world. The book contains a number of parts. After an introduction about studying the law, the first part covers the English legal system, the constitution, EU law, and human rights. This comprises important issues including statutory interpretation and the legislative process, and court structures. The next part considers contractual obligations. Here terms, contractual capacity, mistake, misrepresentation, duress, contractual terms, regulations, and remedies for breach are included. It continues with tortious liability and describes issues of negligence, nuisance, economic loss, psychiatric injury, and statutory duties. This is followed by an examination of company law. The part that comes next is about employment. Finally, intellectual property issues are considered.Less

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for and how to achieve extra marks. Business Law Concentrate considers all the essential issues relating to business law in the English legal system, including EU law and the Lisbon Treaty. The first half of the book looks at contracts in terms of mistake, misrepresentation, duress, undue influence, contractual terms, consumer protection, and remedies for breach. The next few chapters examine employment and focus on issues including wrongful dismissal, unfair dismissal, redundancy, equal pay claims, and anti-discrimination. The last part considers company law and intellectual property. This updated edition includes recent case law in human rights, contract, torts, and employment including Eweida & Others v UK [2013]; Cavendish Square Holding BV v Talal El Makdessi and ParkingEye Limited v Beavis [2015]; M Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP [2015]; Cox v Ministry of Justice [2014]; Mohamud v WM Morrison Supermarkets Plc [2014]; Stack v Ajar-Tec Ltd [2015]; Kaltoft v Municipality of Billund [2014].Recent legislation including the Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013; Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 SI No. 847); Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015; Consumer Rights Act 2015; and Intellectual Property Act 2014 is discussed. The implications for proposed action in company and intellectual property law, including consideration of the EU’s Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court, are incorporated.Less

Card & James’ Business Law provides analysis of the English legal system, contract law, the law of torts, company law, and employment law, with online chapters providing further discussion relating to the economic torts, corporate governance, the sale of goods, consumer credit, and the law relating to unfair and illegal commercial practices. All of this is discussed using relevant examples from the business environment, and the key legal cases to help develop a greater understanding of the interconnections between the law and the corporate setting. Part I of the book looks at the English legal system. Part II looks at the law of contract including the formation, terms, exclusion clauses, and remedies. Part III looks at the law of torts in detail. Part IV considers partnership and company law including business structures, the constituents of a company, shares, capital maintenance, shareholders remedies, and corporate rescue. Finally, Part V is about employment law.Less

Employment Law provides an introduction to the subject considering a variety of subjects including HRM and business management. Case exhibits in every chapter illustrate employment law in action, whilst activities test understanding of the law and its application in the real-world. In addition, a dedicated chapter on preparing and presenting a case gives an opportunity to demonstrate understanding using a fictional scenario, through which a greater insight into the challenges faced before an employment tribunal can be gleamed. This fourth edition includes full coverage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, 2013 and the Children and Families Act, 2014. The text also encompasses a revision of core legal content including changes to unfair dismissal, TUPE, tribunal reforms, pensions, whistle blowing, flexible working arrangements, and executive pay.Less

Introduction to Business Law demonstrates the relevance of key areas of the law to a world of work that the business student can relate to. Students of business often find business law modules challenging, irrelevant to their future career, and full of alien terminology and concepts. Structured in eight parts, this book provides a foundation in the key legal concepts of the English legal system, contract law, and negligence before discussing how the law affects the everyday workings of businesses and their employees from protecting intellectual property rights to company formation, winding up and insolvency. It covers a variety of topics around the subjects of the English legal system, contract law, the law of torts, employment law, the structure and management of business and the major intellectual property rights.Less