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
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Consideration is an Essential Element for the Formation of a Contract
Consideration Law
Consideration must be of value that can be objectively determined, but the courts have the consistently refuse to look at its adequacy. Further, th......
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Agreements Rights and Responsibilities
Contract Law
Advise Lucas, explaining his legal position. To advise Lucas on his legal position is to look at whether any contracts had been formed ......
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Contract Between Two or More Parties
Contract Law
A contract in law terms is defined as an agreement that legally binds between two or more parties. Therefore, a party to contract is only bound when he has agreed to be bound. If there is a valid contract existing between Alex and Bob,...
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An Agreement Which Is Enforceable by Law
Contract Law
In Gibson v Manchester City Council, ‘the House of Lords examined the language of the correspondence to determine whether there was intention to ......
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Agreement Between Two or More Parties
Contract Law
A Contract may be defined as an agreement between two or more parties that is intended to be legally binding. The first requisite of any contract is an agreement. At least two parties are required....
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Contracts Between Parties
Contract Law
Contracts Between Parties. For a valid contract to exist between two parties or more, it must be shown that there has been an offer, and that the offer has been accepted. In addition, there must be an intention from both parties to create legal relations....
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Determining Whether a Contract has been Formed
Contract Law
Courts look for a clear and unequivocal offer which is matched in return by a clear and unequivocal acceptance when determining whether a contract ......
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Common Law is Developed by Judges
Common Law
Common law is developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals (also called case law), rather than through legislative statues or executive branch action....
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Tribunal Procedures Effectiveness to Justice
Constitutional Law
Tribunals are a branch of the court system established by Act of Parliament to deal with disputes between the citizen and the state or between ......
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Tribunals Are Special Courts Outside of the Mainstream
Constitutional Law
Administrative Tribunals have been in existence since 1799. They are an inferior court. Peach Grey and Company v Summers (1995)1 confirmed that......
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Jurisprudence and the Concept of Law
Constitutional Law
The classic work of ‘The Concept of Law’ , written by H.L.A Hart is widely recognized as providing the zenith of legal positivism. Hart’s ......
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Comparison Between a Partnership and a Private Company
Company Law
1 First of all, it is important to realize that the major distinction between trading as a limited liability company and as a sol......
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Administrative Immunity from Statute Operation
Constitutional Law
A matter in dispute has four feet: law, transaction, custom and the royal edict; (among them) the later one supersedes the earlier ......
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Large Public Interest
Public Law
There is a substantially large public interest involved in protecting journalists and their sources within the United Kingdom (UK). This is largly reflective on the fact that the UK is one of a democratic community...
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Understanding the Doctrine of Judicial Precedent
Constitutional Law
The doctrine of judicial precedent comes from the principle of stare decisis which means ‘stand by decisions already made’ and requires that ......
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Evolution of the Doctrine of Indoor Management
Company Law
Corporate Law-I Project Abhijnan Jha Contents 2 Table of Cases 3 Introduction 4 Part I: The Turquand decision 5 Part II: Evolution of the Doctrine ......
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Discussion on the Law of Undue Influence
Contract Law
Chapter 2: Proving Undue Influence 2.1 Preliminary First and foremost, any discussion on the law of undue influence must begin with ......
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Anti terrorism Legislation in the UK
Constitutional Law
New York, 2001. London, 2005. Mumbai, 2008. Where next? Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000 in the UK states that terrorism is an act of a person ......
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Discuss the Principle of Judicial Review
Constitutional Law
Judicial Review is the reassessment of the legality of actions or decisions made by those in position of public authority or bodies. The action or ......
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Exemption Clauses as Terms of the Contracts
Contract Law
This question concerns with exemption clauses. Exemptions clauses are terms in a contract which limit or exclude liability for breach of contract ......
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In Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Company Law
The main question and a issue that arises in this particular scenario is that when is a person considered to be a de facto director of a company, so that he can be responsible for the payments of unlawful dividends as in the same way that the he is formally appointed as a director....
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Company Law Assignment
Company Law
Allotment is amount of money allocated to the company where the person has acquired the unconditional right to be included in the company’s register of members. section 588CA 2006...
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Costing of Claims in Construction Contracts
Contract Law
I. ABSTRACT This paper discuss about the costing of claims in the construction industry governed by FIDIC Conditions of Contract ......
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