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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Oral Contract Dispute
Contract Law
Contracts are an essential part of business transactions especially in provision of services and goods needed to sustain business operations...
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Can the Performance of Existing Duty Amount to Consideration?
Contract Law
What is performance of existing duty? Its means that makes a promise to another person in order to exchange for the others promise or performance ......
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Analysing the Doctrine of Consideration in Law
Contract Law
Lord Goff described contract law in England as being ‘hampered’ by the ‘unnecessary doctrine of consideration’. White v Jones [1995] 2 AC 2......
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Principal Requirements of the Tort of Negligence
Contract Law
The principle requirements of the tort of negligence are that the defendant should owe the claimant a duty of care, that there should be a breach ......
Last modified: 12th Aug 2019
Art is Product of Human Creativity
Criminal Law
Art is subjective. Art is a product of human creativity and is nearly impossible to intrinsically define. So, it is unfortunate that to protect art from being copied, and therefore devalued, in the UK one must pigeon-hole it into narrow fields....
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Details of Case Cannot Slot into Formula
Contract Law
It is generally accepted in modern writings on the English law of contract that during the latter half of the nineteenth century a concept of ......
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Does the House of Lords Bind Itself?
Constitutional Law
The doctrine of binding precedent requires that all courts bind all lower courts and, to some extent, also bind themselves....
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Increased Parliamentary and Judicial Scrutiny
Constitutional Law
Prerogative powers remain an important element of the United Kingdoms constitution. Should they be subject to greater Parliamentary and judicial ......
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Company Law 2006 Companies Act
Company Law
A trading company has implied power to borrow, however, whether express or implied, it carries implications by law a power to give a security for the loan...
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Legal Concept of Remoteness the Tort Negligence
Contract Law
This paper discusses the legal concept of remoteness in the tort of negligence. The central question for analysis is the appropriateness of ......
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English Law Can Be Divided Into Four Main Sources
Constitutional Law
Common or Case Law is the basis of the English legal system and its inception can be traced as far back as 1066 during the reign of William the ......
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Common Law on Rape
Common Law
I will start this essay by stating that it is relatively difficult to disagree with the statement in the question that until recently the development of the common law...
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Privatisation Most Important Political Issue
Company Law
Privatisation is gradually becoming the most important political issue of all time,it has been adopted and practised by most countries in the world,...
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Contract Law in Guarantee Agreements Application
Contract Law
Introduction In law, a contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law or by binding arbitration. That ......
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The Acknowledgment of the Legal Personality of the Company
Company Law
A company is incorporated when it receives a certificate of incorporation, thus it has a ‘separate legal personality’. In law the company will ......
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Section 14 of the Companies Act 1985
Company Law
This paper examines the case law relating to S.14(1) of the 1985 Act and considers Lord Greene’s view, with conclusions on the established jurisprudence....
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Approaches the Courts Use to Interpret Statues
Constitutional Law
There are actually five rules for interpretation statues, but only four are mainly used. The reasons that statues or acts have to be interpreted ......
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Most Important Source of English Law
Constitutional Law
Case-law, also known as Common law, is a main source of law; this is because most modern English Law has not become statutory. Therefore ......
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A Comparison of Consideration Cases
Contract Law
From orthodox view, the performance of an existing duty should not constitute consideration. A performance of an existing duty is a responsibility ......
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Judicial Killings and Judicial System of Bangladesh
Constitutional Law
Extra Judicial Killings by law enforcement agencies are now very common in Bangladesh. Though there is no legal definition of an extrajudicial ......
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Analysing the Benefits and Disadvantages of Diversity
Employment Law
Diversity: People diversity add value to the organization if handle in the right manner , diversity contain almost all ways in which people differ ......
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Class Action in Society
Company Law
Class Action in Society. My interest in 'class action' has grown long before the enrolment of undergraduate law. The issue was introduced to me under a laymen's term in the movie Erin Brockovich....
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Case of Personal Injury
Contract Law
William Bragg v B. Johnson INTRODUCTION This is a case of personal injury. Personal injury is defined as any disease injury or impairment of a ......
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Are Anti Defection Provisions Constitutionally Justified
Constitutional Law
According to Burton’s Legal Thesaurus defection maybe defined as abandonment of loyalty, duty or principle or of ones leader or cause ......
Last modified: 12th Aug 2019
