Law for Business Students. (Record no. 2972)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781282664180 |
| Qualifying information | (electronic bk.) |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1027171640 |
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| Language of cataloging | eng |
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| 082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 346.4207 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Adams, Alix. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Law for Business Students. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 6th ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Pearson Education UK, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2011. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | �2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (638 pages) |
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| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Cover -- Law for Business Students -- Brief contents -- Contents -- Guided tour -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Table of cases -- Table of statutes -- Table of statutory instruments -- Table of European and International legislation -- Part 1: Introduction -- Getting started: an introduction to studying 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 -- Introductory study tips -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 1 -- How the law is made -- Introduction -- European law -- Parliament -- The courts -- The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 2 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 1 -- 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 -- Key terms -- Quiz 3 -- Web activity -- Assignment 2 -- Part 2: Law of contract, agencyand sale of goods -- The law of contract: offer and acceptance -- Introduction -- The essentials of a binding contract -- The offer -- The acceptance -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 4 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 3 -- The law of contract: consideration, intention and privity -- Introduction -- Consideration -- Intention to create legal relations -- Privity of contract -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 5 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 4 -- The terms of the contract -- Introduction -- Express and implied terms -- The relative importance of contractual terms. |
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| Formatted contents note | Limitation and exclusion of liability -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 6 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 5 -- Defects in the contract: misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence -- Introduction -- Misrepresentation -- Mistake -- Duress and undue influence -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 7 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 6 -- More defects: illegality and incapacity -- Introduction -- Illegality -- Contractual incapacity -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 8 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 7 -- Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach -- Introduction -- Discharge of contracts -- Remedies for breach of contract -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 9 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 8 -- 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 -- Key terms -- Quiz 10 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 9 -- Sale of goods: the contract and its terms -- Introduction -- The sale of goods contract -- The terms implied by the Sale of Goods Act 1979 -- Implied conditions in other Acts -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 11 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 10 -- Sale of goods: transfer of ownership, performance and remedies for breach of contract -- Introduction -- Statutory rules governing transfer of title from seller to buyer -- Transfer of title by non-owner -- The passage of risk -- Performance of the contract -- Remedies for breach of the sale of goods contract -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 12 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 11 -- Part 3: The law of tort -- Tort liability for defective goods. |
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| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Negligence liability -- The Consumer Protection Act 1987 (Part I) -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 13 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 12 -- Tort liability for defective services -- Introduction -- Part 1 - problematic duty situations -- Part 2 - breach of duty -- Proving consequent damage -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 14 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 13 -- Tort liability for premises -- Introduction -- The occupier's liability to people on the premises -- Duties of an occupier to people outside the premises -- Defences in tort -- Vicarious liability -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 15 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 14 -- Part 4: Elements of employment law -- 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 -- Key terms -- Quiz 16 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 15 -- Rights at work: protection against discrimination -- Introduction -- The Equal Pay Act 1970 -- The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 -- The Race Relations Act 1976 -- The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 -- Sexual orientation -- Religion or belief -- Age discrimination -- Enforcing anti-discrimination legislation -- The Commission for Equality and Human Rights -- Reform of anti-discrimination law -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 17 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 16 -- Rights at work: protection against dismissal and redundancy -- Introduction -- Wrongful dismissal -- Unfair dismissal -- Redundancy -- Transfer of undertakings -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 18 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity. |
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| Formatted contents note | Assignment 17 -- Part 5: Introduction to company law -- Business organisation -- 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 -- In conclusion -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 19 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 18 -- Forming a registered company -- Introduction -- Promoting the company -- Forming the company -- Buying a company 'off the shelf' -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 20 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 19 -- Running the company: raising and maintaining capital -- Introduction -- Share capital -- Loan capital -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 21 -- Web activity -- Assignment 20 -- Daily management of the company: functions of directors, secretary and auditors -- Introduction -- The directors -- The company secretary -- The auditors of the company -- Insider dealing -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 22 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 21 -- Company meetings and shareholder participation -- Introduction -- General meetings -- Protecting the rights of minority shareholders -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 23 -- Web activity -- Assignment 22 -- Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law -- Statutory intellectual property protection: copyright, designs, patents and trade marks -- Introduction -- Statutory regulation of intellectual property -- The impact of EC law and international treaties on intellectual property rights -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 24 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 23 -- Common law protection of intellectual property: passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence -- Introduction -- Passing off -- Malicious falsehood. |
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| Formatted contents note | Breach of confidence and protection of privacy -- Remedies for passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence -- Chapter summary -- Key terms -- Quiz 25 -- Take a closer look -- Web activity -- Assignment 24 -- Part 7: Study skills -- Study skills, and revision and examination hints -- Introduction -- Beginning to study -- Writing law assignments -- Revision and examination technique -- Appendix 1: Additional resources -- Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and quiz solutions -- Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Alix Adams’ lively and understandable introduction to all aspects of law encountered in business will provide you with a clear appreciation of the main rules and legal principles. Utilising a host of features in a colourful and clear design, Law for Business Students encourages you to understand how the law works in everyday business situations and apply it to your own experiences. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2026. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Adams, Alix |
| Title | Law for Business Students |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | : Pearson Education UK,c2011 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
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