This comprehensive textbook provides a thorough and accessible introduction to business law for the non-law student. Packed with up-to-date and relevant examples, it demonstrates the real applicability of the law to the business world, making it an invaluable companion for all those tackling business law for the first time. INDICE: 1: Studying the Law; The English Legal System; 2: The law, the constitution and human rights in the UK; 3: Sources of law; statutory interpretation, and the legislative process; 4: The court structure and alternative formsof dispute resolution; Law of the European Union; 5: History; institutions; sources of law and the impact on the UK; 6: Enforcement mechanisms; ContractualObligations; 7: Essential features of a valid contract 1: offer and acceptance; 8: Essential features of a valid contract 2: consideration; intention to create legal relations and certainty of terms; 9: Contracts, contractual capacity, mistake, misrepresentation, and duress; 10: Contractual terms; 11: Statutory regulation of contracts; 12: Discharge of contract and remedies for breach; Tortious Liability; 13: Negligence and nuisance; 14: Economic loss, the liability of professional advisors, and psychiatric injury; 15: Vicarious liability and statutory duties; Employment; 16: Employment status and the terms forming the contract; 17: Dismissal at common law, redundancy and the transfer of undertakings; 18: Unfair dismissal and constructive dismissal; 19: Discrimination in the workplace and parental rights; 20: Regulation of the conditions of employment; Intellectual Property; 21: Intellectual property; Company Law; 22: Agency; 23: Type of organization and forming the business enterprise; 24: Corporate administration; 25: Maintenance of finance and capital; 26: Corporate management
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960870-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 576
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés