Description
Book SynopsisAlix Adams is a barrister with over 30 years' experience of teaching law from GCSE to degree and postgraduate level.
Stephanie Caplan is a barrister and a Senior Lecturer at Kings Business School, Kings College London and Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, with extensive experience in teaching law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and with a special interest in employment law.
Graeme Lockwood is a Senior Lecturer in business law at Kings Business School, Kings College, London with a broad range of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate level and on executive business courses. He is a prominent researcher with extensive publications in employment law.
Table of ContentsPreface Table of cases Table of statutes Table of statutory instruments Table of European and International legislation Part 1: Introduction: getting started
- Study skills
- The nature of law
- How the law is made
- Resolving legal disputes
Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods
- The law of contract: Offer and acceptance
- The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity
- The terms of the contract at common law
- Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services
- Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence
- The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity
- Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach
- The law of agency
Part 3: The law of tort
- The tort of negligence
- Negligence and special duty situations
- Product liability
- Occupiers' liability, nuisance and vicarious liability
Part 4: Elements of employment law
- Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work
- Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment
- Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy
Part 5: Introduction to company law
- Business organisations
- Forming a registered company
- Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital
- The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors
- Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection
Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law
- Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks
- Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence
Appendix 1: Additional resources Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and Review questions – outline answers Index
