Articles tagged as UK Law

UK law covers the laws and legislation of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Essays, case summaries, problem questions and dissertations here are relevant to law students from the United Kingdom and Great Britain, as well as students wishing to learn more about the UK legal system from overseas.

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Protecting Legal Rights Subsisting Prior to Insolvency

Commercial Law

Rescue procedures involve going beyond the normal managerial responses to corporate troubles. They may operate through informal mechanisms as well ......

Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019

Equitable Principles Applying to Director's Duties

Business Law

With regard to the general duties owed to a company by a director (specified in ss.171 – 177 Companies Act 2006) s.170(3) states that those ......

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Rules Regarding the Corporate Group Structure

Business Law

The coursework question is relates with matter of company law review which concern to the Company Act 2006. In 2006 Act there is no new ......

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Defining the Agency Relationship

Commercial Law

Defining agency is a difficult task one of which an attempt is never all encompassing, however this work will try to define one. Agency is ......

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Equity Came Not to Destroy Law

Finance Law

Equity is a set of rules that exists alongside the common law and is applied where the normal form of dispute resolution, namely damages (monetary compensation), would not be sufficient,...

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Sale of Goods and Agency

Commercial Law

The linkage between passing of property and the ascertainment of the contractual goods as required by section 16 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (as ......

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Litigation Arbitration Law

Arbitration Law

Classically, the litigation case is seen as the definitive model of the law in action. Party X suspects that party Y has violated the terms of their commercial agreement....

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Dual Role of Company

Business Law

Introduction A company incorporated under the Companies Act has a dual role in nature firstly being an association of its members and secondly ......

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The Utility and the Extent of Fiduciary Obligations

General Law

The law of trusts is well recognised as a separate branch of the law, with its own textbooks and its own rules and principles, now highly developed....

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A Doctor is Not Guilty of Negligence

Medical Law

“The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human ......

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Critically Analyse the Impact of the Decision of the House of Lords

General Law

A licence is a personal arrangement between two parties which constitutes permission to occupy land for some particular purpose....

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An Interlocutory Appeal

Judicial Law

An interlocutory appeal is basically where a judge over rules a trial that the judge had made before the actual trial in which the judge concludes ......

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The Jury System Is Accessible to All Persons

Judicial Law

A justice system should be founded upon the principle that the system is accessible to all persons. The existence of an efficient system is ......

Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019

Death Due to a Drugs Overdose

Medical Law

Death due to a drugs overdose has several preceding conditions but the two rival circumstances would be the supply of drugs by a dealer and the voluntary act of the deceased to consume the drugs, they are both events but for which the person would not be dead....

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Euthanasia is a Contentious Area

Medical Law

Euthanasia is a contentious area and the debate is ceaseless, however it was recently highlighted by the success of Debbie Purdy in the House of Lords which has resulted in the Director of Public Prosecutions...

Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019

Land Building Law

Land Law

Land Building Law. Does Common Law allow the benefit of a covenant to be passed to a purchaser of land ? Can either the burden or benefit of a covenant be passed in equity and, if so, give details of how this might happen....

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Significant and Increasing Proportion of Couples

Family Law

The issues that are facing the courts today are the significant and increasing proportion of couples and family members that are co-habitating outside of the traditional framework of a society long ago....

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Three Way Mutual Exchange in Tenancy

Housing Law

You have been asked to advice these clients about the legal implications involved in mutual exchanges, consider fully the statutory rights and obligations....

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Shell Was Able to Recover Damages for the Damaged Property

Land Law

At or about 6 am on Sunday the 11th of December 2005 a number of explosions occurred at the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot based in Hertfordshire......

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Gillick Competence

Medical Law

Gillick Competence. When referring to the phrase Gillick competence, commentators are normally discussing the ability of a minor to make his or her own choices and have such choices upheld by the law....

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The UK Law and Ethics in Sex Discrimination

Human Rights Law

This essay will involve detailed consideration of both ethical and legal considerations concerning victims of sex discrimination....

Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019

English Conflict of Laws in Relation to Issues of Jurisdiction

General Law

Making use of relevant case law (where available) explain and discuss how, and to what extent, the old Brussels Convention and the new Council regulation 44/2001 have affected and altered traditional rules of English Conflict of Laws in relation......

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Insurance Law

Finance Law

The Law Commission has published various issues papers and consultation papers on insurance law in recent years. Select two issues that the Commission has examined and discuss and compare the different approaches...

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Immigration and Asylum Law

Immigration Law

Even where the appellant is unlikely to re-offend, the judicial authorities may be prepared to uphold a deportation on the basis that it may serve as an example and deter others....

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Law of Child Consent for Medical Treatment

Family Law

It is an inevitable statement of life that as children grow up, especially when they get in their teens, they develop the ability......

Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019