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.
Summit Investment v BSC - 1987
Case Summaries
The defendants chartered a ship from the plaintiff on a New York Produce Exchange form of time charter. Clause 20 of this charter provided......
Last modified: 15th Aug 2019
Negligence in Employment: Protective Equipment
Tort Law
The performance of the duty can be delegated to a third party but responsibility for its negligent performance and consequent liability cannot....
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Constraints of the Floodgates Principle
Contract Law
What is the distinction between consequential economic loss and pure economic loss in negligence? Negligence represents the breach of a duty of ......
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A Road Traffic Accident
Personal Injury Law
A witness to a Road Traffic Accident (RTA) who suffers a recognized psychiatric disorder (like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) as a result of witnessing the RTA can claim damages against the person causing the accident....
Last modified: 15th Aug 2019
Negligence Is the Most Important Modern Law
Contract Law
Negligence essentially concerned with compensating people who have suffered damage as a result of carelessness of others, but the law does not ......
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Howard Marine v Ogden - 1978 QB 574
Case Summaries
The defendant, A, were civil engineering contractors who entered into negotiation with H for the hire of two ships to carry clay out to sea....
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Order of Precedence Between UK Statute and EU
EU Law
With references to case law (LAW REPORTS) and statute (CREATES NEW LAW), write a report explaining: The order of precedence between common ......
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Understanding the Meaning Behind and the Purpose of Contracts
Contract Law
TASK1) A contract is an agreement between two or more parties. It can be written, oral, by conduct. For a contract to be binding it must hav......
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Example Answers to Tasks on Common Law
Contract Law
Business is very competitive than the past that because; as a result effect of globalization. New legislations came into effect on ......
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The Proposition that a Company has a Separate Legal Personality
Business Law
*per Rogers AJA in Briggs v James Hardie & Co Pty Ltd (1989) 16 NSWLR 549, 576 The doctrine of corporate personality offers businesses a way of ......
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Principle of Separateness
Company Law
Firstly, this paper will examine the case of Salomon v Salomon to determine the exact nature and importance of the Salomon principle of separateness often referred to as the ‘veil of incorporation...
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Did Company Law Benefit From the Decision of the House of Lords?
Company Law
It is hard to exaggerate the significance of the case Salomon v. Salomon & Co Ltd [1897] in terms of its contribution to the conceptualisation and ......
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Critically evaluate the development of Legal Personality
Example Essays
Define and Critically evaluate the development of the notion of separate corporate legal personality....
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Corporate Personality
Business Law
Companies are enterprises, also the legal person, so companies are business entity. Company as the business entity, different with other nonbusines......
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English Law of Defamation
Human Rights Law
English law of defamation. The English law of defamation recognizes reputation as an interest worthy of protection. Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)...
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A Trust Is an Obligation Which Binds a Person
Equity Law
A trust is an obligation which binds a person (or persons) to deal with property for the benefit of beneficiaries or for a charitable purpose in ac......
Last modified: 14th Aug 2019
The Defence of Diminished Responsibility
Criminal Law
Scottish and English law on insanity was same in the sixteenth century, since '1674 a notion of partial insanity' to lessen and moderate the......
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The Problem of Reverse Onuses in the Law of Evidence
Criminal Law
The problems with reverse onuses are that they conflict with everything that we know about the law: that the accused is innocent until proven guilty....
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Assessment of Criminal Liability of Three Incidents
Criminal Law
For the actus reus of assault to be established it would have to be shown that Paul apprehended the possibility of force being applied....
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The Facts of Zeital One are Complicated
Equity Law
It was held on appeal that the deceased’s action did not pass the shares to his partner and were in fact incapable of transferring beneficial ......
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England and Wales Court of Appeal
Criminal Law
On 26 October 2006, in the Crown Court at Bournemouth, before HHJ Jarvis and a jury, Benjamin Bree , a 25 year old man of excellent previous character, was convicted of rape....
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Employee Law and Relations
Employment Law
In seeking to advise John whether he is likely to have a claim for unlawful discrimination on the basis of the facts, this might be an example ......
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CASE STUDY 3 Problem 1
Contract Law
Last Christmas Mark received a board game as a present. Mark has no interest in such a game and since he owes his cousin Mandy $1000, Mark asks......
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The Disclosure of Trust Documents
Equity Law
The law has criticised and differentiate the approach, based on whether trust document should be disclosed to beneficiaries. There has been ......
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A Employment Tribunal Report
Employment Law
Claimant: Mr. HJO’ Mara Respondent: Mr. Graham Hancock & Mr. Graham t/a HR painters & Decorators Rothwell Pre-hearing Review HR Painters and ......
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