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.

Latest Law Papers tagged as UK Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
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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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......
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R v Rostron - 2003
Case Summaries
Both R and C appealed against their conviction. They argued that the golf balls were abandoned by their original owners and, thus, removal......
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R v St George - 1840
Case Summaries
The Defendant (St. George) got into an argument with the victim, a Mr Durant. During the course of this argument, the Defendant took out a gun and......
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R v Saw - 2009
Case Summaries
Five appellants sought leave to appeal their sentences and a sixth appellant appealed against his sentence for burglary of an occupied dwelling house....
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R v Martin - 1881
Case Summaries
The defendant decided to play a practice joke on theatre goers by barring the exits to a playhouse, cutting the lights on the exits......
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R v Mullen [2000] QB 520
Case Summaries
Mullen was brought back to England from Zimbabwe due to being wanted by the police. Upon his arrival, he was arrested and later convicted of conspiracy......
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R v Lowrie - 2005
Case Summaries
The defendant had made a series of repeatedly false calls to the emergency services. This was a consistent form of behaviour for the defendant......
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R v Lipman - 1970
Case Summaries
Robert Lipman was convicted of manslaughter for killing his friend while on a bad LSD trip. She suffered two blows to the head and......
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R v Sangha
Case Summaries
A flat in which squatters occupied, had two armchairs and a mattress which Sangha set fire to whilst the flat was unoccupied....
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R v Shepherd - 1988
Case Summaries
The defendant entered a shop with a view to stealing boxes of goods from it. When charged with burglary, the defendant raised the defence......
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R v Page - 1954
Case Summaries
A British soldier, Harry Richard Page (HRP), killed an Egyptian national in Egypt and was convicted of murder of an Egyptian......
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R v Hudson and Taylor
Case Summaries
Hudson and Taylor were two girls who were charged with perjury having given false evidence by failing to identify an individual......
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R v Bourne - 1952
Case Summaries
Sydney Joseph Bourne (B) subjected his wife Adelaide Bourne (A) to bestiality by terrorising her into submission against her......
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R v Rimmington - 2006
Case Summaries
Rimmington, the defendant, sent 538 separate postal packages to individuals. These were of a crude, racist and obscene nature......
Last modified: 27th Jun 2019