Tag: UK Law

What Is the Legal Nature of the Banker-Customer Relationship?
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The significance of banks in modern market economies cannot be underestimated. Like any other economy, banks have a very crucial role to play in......

Separate Legal Entity and Limited Liability Differences
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This research was carried to investigate the difference between separate legal entity and limited liability ......

Mass Production of Guilty Pleas
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: What is a guilty plea and how is it that the guilty pleas of defendants keep rising? Is it to do with mens rea? Or are they just doing as their told?...

Definition of Employee Relation
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Employment relation can be defining as employer and employees relationship in a formal and informal nature that arises between management ......

The English Law on Insurance Contracts
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The English Law on insurance contracts as it stands today contains some rules which are arguably pro-insurer and consequently highly prejudicial to the assured....

The Evolution of Rape Law
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Many people think that rapists are sexual psychopaths with perverted thoughts and actions. Research, however, disagrees with this myth....

Polluting Event of Churchills
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: entify and explain the criminal liability (If any) of each of Brockwells polluting event and that of Churchill’s, and of any individuals involved......

Equality Act and Discrimination Within the Workplace
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The recent introduction of the Equality Act 2010 has brought about many changes to the law regarding discrimination within the workplace ......

Unfair Dismissal Against Wrongful Dismissal
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: In the United Kingdom (UK) the two areas of dismissal, Unfair dismissal and Wrongful dismissal have grown and adapted due to changes in the work ......

Men's Rea
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Men's Rea Law Essay. All the prosecution must show is that the defendant possessed the specified mental state or mens rea towards the required actus reus. This approach, however, as the title suggests, fails to take account of the way......

Risks of Buyer Seller and Ship Owner
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: In today’s world, the world of commerce and trade, goods are being always transported from one place to another, one country to another ......

Corporate Manslaughter - Shipping Safety
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Corporate Manslaughter - Shipping Safety. The Herald of free enterprise was followed by so many deaths resulting from shipping accidents like the Piper Alpha disasterand a few others. There was also the general feelings that enough was not been done in terms of safety. As a response to this, in 1996 the law commission's report......

Principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the UK’s Uncodified Constitutional System
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: I will be critically discussing the principle of Parliamentary sovereignty and the UK’s uncodified constitutional system and how it can never truly adhere to a “pure” separation of powers. ...

Criteria for Raising a Civil Action in Negligence in Common Law
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: To understand the law surrounding negligence we must first look at the foundation of modern-day laws surrounding negligence at common law, these are derived from the case of Donoghue V Stevenson....

Issues Around Trustees Responsibilities
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: This question throws up issues around trustee’s responsibilities, duties and consequences if in breach of those duties....

United Kingdom Law for Suicide
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: In the United Kingdom it is not against the law for someone to commit suicide. It is however unlawful to help (e.g. assist) someone who wants to commit suicide....

Legal Systems in English Law
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: English law is based upon a common law system. This developed historically because of the fact that prior to the Norman Conquest, there were various different legal systems governing different parts of the British Isles...

The Civil Court in Scotland
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The civil courts in Scotland are provided by the state for citizens to resolve any disputes they may have in a fair and respectable manner. Whereby the one party (the pursuer) will raise an action in front of the relevant civil court against another (the defender)....

Racial Hatred in Prisons - Racist Signs and Symbols
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: This research seeks to investigate whether viewing racist signs and symbols increases self-reported levels of racial prejudice and other factors......

The Principles Behind Choice of Law with Regards to the Rome Regulations
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: The relationship between a choice of law and the doctrine of public policy would be looked at, as well as a critical evaluation of the role of public policy on choice of law. ...

Copyright Infringement Permission
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Copyright Infringement Permission. Under UK copyright law, owners of certain works prescribed in s.1(1) Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (hereafter CDPA 1988) are given a bundle of property rights....

Consent for the Purposes of Sexual Offences
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Described by the Home Office Review, Setting the Boundaries, as a ‘patchwork quilt of provisions’, the old law on sexual offences was a hodgepodge of archaic and discriminatory requirements....

Disposition of Property on Death Has Always Been a Very Complex Issue
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: Two peculiar types of wills are relevant to our case, the first one being the mirror will, the other is known in equity as a joint will, both are m......

UK Legal Procedures for Starting a New Business
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: This assignment will explain what legal procedures need to be followed in the UK to start up a new business....

Relationship of Wrongful and Unfair Dismissal
7th Aug 2019
Introduction: In order to be able to effectively examine the role between wrongful and unfair dismissal, it is necessary to appreciate how each concept ......