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.
Reasons for and Application of Rules of Statutory Interpretation
Constitutional Law
The primary aim of this essay is to explain the reasons and application of rules of statutory interpretation. The secondary aim of this essay is to examine the quote that “they are rather crude labels for describing a complex mechanism, i.e. making sense of what someone else has written. ...
Last modified: 1st Sep 2021
Offers and Invitation to Treat
Contract Law
Offers and invitation to treat are the primary examples of transactions and they have certain procedures to secure interchange between people. This essay will focus on some human rights in the contract law. However, in order to understand briefly about law of contract we start with to comprehend binding contract. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Critical Analysis of the Literal, Golden, and Mischief Rules
Administrative Law
Statute law may be used to extend, over rule or modify existing meanings of current common law. As well as this, entirely new laws can be created in statutes, there are three rules used when using statute law these rules are the Literal, Golden, and Mischief Rules. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Different Types of Constitution
Constitutional Law
In conclusion, whether a constitution is codified or uncodified, flexible or inflexible, presidential or monarchical, republican or parliamentary, political or legal, the one thing they have in common is that all constitutions are unique. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co
Contract Law
The company made a product called “Smoke Ball”. It claimed to be a cure to influenza and many other diseases, in the context 1889-1890: Flu pandemic which is estimated to have killed 1 million people. The smoke ball was a rubber ball with a tube fixed to its opening. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Liberal Democracies – Tyranny of the Majority
Administrative Law
Tyranny of the majority is obviously an important issue in democracy. So important in fact that the ‘founding fathers’ of the USA chose to create measures which reduced the ability of the majority to tyrannise the majority. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Right of Set-off in Building Contracts
Contract Law
. The principle laid down by Dawnays has been criticised by Gilbert Ash case at the House of Lords which declared that the decision in Dawnays was wrong thus the decision of the case “ought not to be allowed to stand(1)” ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Powers of the House of Lords to Obstruct a Major Bill
Constitutional Law
When introducing a bill to Parliament there is always a chance that the proposals set out in the bill go against what the unelected House of Lords (the Lords) believes in, and therefore decides to veto. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Comparison of Scottish and English Law of Interdicts, Injunctions and Super Injunctions
Civil Law
The main aim of this report is to research if Super Injunctions should be legally enforced in Scotland. Although, the first objective is comparing the Scottish and English Law of Interdicts, Injunctions and Super Injunctions. What are the different types and what do they do? ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
The Amalgamation of Companies
Business Law
Amalgamation is form of business combination. It is used as some other meaning like merger, absorption, consolidation, acquisition etc. It occurs When a company wants to expand their business in terms of long term profitability under a mutual setting by two parties ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Scottish Land Ownership Laws Post-devolution
Land Law
Traditionally, Scotland operated a feudal system of land tenure in much the same way as England and Wales; however, following the devolution of Scotland in 1999 and the ability for the country to make its own laws, the position in relation to property ownership in Scotland has become somewhat removed from the position in England and Wales. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
The Role Of Queen’s Counsel In English Legal System. Controversies, Ideas, Reforms
English Legal System
Queen’s Counsel is in fact a special which is awarded for distinguished branch of advocates in England and Wales. Traditionally, this was restricted to barristers but in 1996 the system was changed and solicitors became entitled to be appointed Queen’s Counsels. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Review of Purdy v Director of Public Prosecutions (UK Suicide Case)
English Legal System
Critically Assess The Significance Of The House Of Lords’ Recent Ruling In R (On The Application Of Purdy) V Director Of Public Prosecutions [2009] UKHL 45. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Liability of Parent Company for actions of Subsidiary
Business Law
The basic feature of corporate personality is that the corporation is a legal entity distinct from its members. The main advantage that it has is that it is capable of having rights and of being subject to duties which are not identical as those enjoyed or borne by its members ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Relationship between Gender and Crime
Criminology
The aim of this essay is to consider how gender affects the way the law and society respond to different types of crime and violence. It will argue that gender plays a significant role in dealing with various crimes within the criminal justice system. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Problems faced by Minority Shareholders
Business Law
The main problem on which focus in this essay is required on the effectiveness of the treatment which is most commonly used by minority shareholders to get some personal treatment in wake of breaches of directors’ duties, or of other inadequate conduct of company business. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Report on Court Room Observation
English Legal System
My report on court room observation focuses on observations from two courts. The first one was the Manchester Civil Justice Centre which is a new justice building in Manchester. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Relationship between Wrongful and Unfair Dismissal
Employment Law
In order to be able to effectively examine the role between wrongful and unfair dismissal, it is necessary to appreciate how each concept operates within employment law. This work shall thoroughly review each concept, the way they interact with one another and then a conclusion shall be drawn as to whether this is an area of the law that requires reform. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
The Concept of Capital
Company Law
The concept of ‘capital’ has a restricted and technical meaning within company law. A company’s capital adds up to all of the cash or the value of assets received by a company from investors in return for the company’s shares. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
The Mareva Injunction
English Legal System
Another aspect of the injunction that has undergone change is the extent of the restraint. At its first appearance, it sought to restrain the defendants from ‘removing or disposing out of the jurisdiction any of their assets within the jurisdiction’. Subsequently, it evolved into what is now the customary form of the Mareva injunction – the freezing order. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Criminal or Civil Standard of Proof
Criminal Law
The standard of proof, in essence, can be loosely defined as the quantum of evidence that must be presented before a Court before a fact can be said to exist or not exist. As the type of cases before a Court can be classified into criminal or civil, so can the standard of proof ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Police Powers of Arrest within PACE
Public Law
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) and the PACE codes of practice provide the core framework of police powers and safeguards around stop and search, arrest, detention, investigation, identification and interviewing detainees ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
The Doctrine of Res Gestae
Common Law
The aim of this paper is to investigate the manner in which the res gestae doctrine has been characterised under Common Law, and to trace its development as an exception to the exclusionary hearsay rule. ...
Last modified: 31st Aug 2021
Family Behaviour and Divorce Rates
Family Law
The work is divided into three parts: the first sets out the important historical background to the debate, showing how and why the concept of no-fault divorce first emerged during the Enlightenment period; the second part offers an overview of the different legal regimes in Sweden and England, whilst the third part offers and evaluative discussion of the pros and cons of either approach. ...
Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
Extra Judicial Punishments and Killings
Constitutional Law
Extra Judicial Killing is the killing of a person by governmental authorities without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or any legal process. Extrajudicial Punishments are unlawful by nature, because they break the process of legal jurisdiction in which they occur. ...
Last modified: 26th Aug 2021
