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Impacts on Documentary Credit Law

Commercial Law

Introduction to Free Trade and Regulation Regulation is an alternative to free market institutions in the process of allocating, producing ......

Last modified: 28th Jun 2019

R v Quayle

Case Summaries

The appellants appealed against convictions for the cultivation, production and possession of cannabis and cannabis resin....

Last modified: 28th Jun 2019

Meaning and Effect of Separate Legal Personality

Business Law

Answer both questions (1,000 words approx. each question): 1. “The company is at law a different person altogether from the subscribers to the ......

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R v Clarkson; R v Carroll; R v Dodd

Case Summaries

The defendants were drinking when they heard sounds indicating that a woman was being raped. They entered the room where the sounds......

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R v Miller - 1954

Case Summaries

The defendant, Mr Miller, had been the husband of the victim who, at the time of the alleged offence, had left the respondent and filed......

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Administrative Authority And Effects Of Proportionality

Administrative Law

‘Proportionality puts the burden on an administrative authority to justify its actions and requires some consideration of alternatives. In this ......

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The UK Constitution: Origins and Characteristics

Administrative Law

The UK constitution looks confusing to a foreign observer: most states have a written constitution which is a document with special ......

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The Unfair Contract Terms Act

Commercial Law

The brief discusses the Unfair Contract Terms Act of 1977 (UK) and the EC Directive on Unfair Consumer Contracts (Council Directive 93/13EEC). It ......

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The Business of Banking

Business Law

The business of banking is fraught with dangers due to the instability in the world economy and like any other enterprise the bank too can face untold events and we should remember that bank failures are not a new issue....

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Weaknesses in Current Corporate Manslaughter Regime

Business Law

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007  In brief, an organisation will commit corporate manslaughter if the way ......

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The Legal Profession

Administrative Law

The Legal Profession. Defining the term 'legal profession' is more difficult than one may anticipate....

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Commercial Contract Law

Commercial Law

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Timeload Ltd Versus British Telecommunications

Commercial Law

The case of Timeload Ltd v British Telecommunications plc is the one that regardless of the fact that English law does not yet explicitly e......

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Exam Problem Questions

Business Law

MSc Construction Ltd (hereafter MSc Ltd) is the current freeholder of a luxury block of apartments. It decided that the apartments needed renovating....

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The Most Efficient Way to Treat Insolvent Companies

Business Law

The adverse effect of the collapse of corporate enterprise is the principal concern of Corporate Insolvency Law. Its dramatic implications on the ......

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Evaluation of Directors Duties

Business Law

Background of the Act: “The law commissions and the Company Law Review concluded that a statutory statement of duties ......

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Theory of the Lex Mercatoria

Commercial Law

Lex mercatoria is the Latin expression for a body of trading principles used by merchants throughout Europe in the medieval. Literally ......

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Multinationals and Corporate Governance

Business Law

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Remedies Available to Minority Shareholders Members

Business Law

INTRODUCTION: In every legal system there are certain rights and liabilities of a legal person. One of the basic purpose of law is to protect ......

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Market Abuse

Business Law

This Assignment will look at the meaning of Market Abuse and the problems that are associated with it....

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Liability of Principal from Perspective of Law

Commercial Law

An agent’s act is binding on the principal if it is done within his authority. Anything which the agent done in excess of that authority does ......

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A Matter of Partnership Law

Business Law

Since the Roman times, a few people or more would run a business together with a view of making profit. That is why creating the Partnership Act of 1890 was a benefit as it stated the relationship...

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Characteristics Of Commerce And Trade

Commercial Law

Commerce and trade has been a characteristic of all human societies from time immemorial. With the expansion of trade it was necessary to branch ......

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Freedom of Expression and Right To Privacy

Administrative Law

The brief deals with Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It investigates the right to privacy and the right ......

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R v Griffiths

Case Summaries

The defendant was a seller of limes who entered into a conspiracy with seven lime farmers to defraud the Ministry of Agriculture......

Last modified: 27th Jun 2019