10050nam a22004693i 4500 EBC5136343 MiAaPQ 20260722133156.0 m o d | cr cnu|||||||| 260722s2011 xx o ||||0 eng d 9781282664180 (electronic bk.) (MiAaPQ)EBC5136343 (Au-PeEL)EBL5136343 (CaONFJC)MIL266418 (OCoLC)1027171640 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ 346.4207 Adams, Alix. Law for Business Students. 6th ed. : Pearson Education UK, 2011. �2011. 1 online resource (638 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. 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