Adams, Alix. creator text Electronic books. xx 2011 6th ed. monographic eng 1 online resource (638 pages) 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. 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. 346.4207 Adams, Alix : Pearson Education UK,c2011 9781282664180 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nrc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5136343 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nrc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5136343 MiAaPQ 260722 20260722133156.0 EBC5136343 eng