Articles tagged as UK Law

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Testing If Working Under Contract of Employment

Employment Law

In writing this paper I shall be critically analysing the numerous tests that have been established by the courts throughout the years in ......

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The Formation and Enforceability of Contract

Contract Law

The current English law, in assessing the formation and enforceability of contract, at first glance appears to take a rigidly technical and schematic approach....

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Mentally Disordered Offender

Criminal Law

With Reference To The Legal, Theoretical, And Practical Concerns, Discuss The Issues Raised By The Notion Of A ‘Mentally Disordered Offender’....

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Implied Terms in the Employment Contract

Employment Law

Staff in the course of employment usually creates inventions. Employer usually owns the ownership of the invention created by employees ......

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Requirements for a Valid Contract of Sale

Contract Law

In relation to the contract of sale, examine the three elements required for a valid contract and illustrate how the law relating to them developed....

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Complex Law Surrounding Employment Status

Employment Law

The law concerning employment status is complex, and far from simple to interpret. Therefore, determining entitlement to employment ......

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Development of Indirect Discrimination in the UK

Employment Law

In the first part of the brief the brief investigates the development of indirect discrimination in the UK and the EC. It further discusses ......

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Human Rights Act on Doctrine of Precedent

Constitutional Law

The purpose of this article is to analyse the impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 ('HRA') on the operation of the doctrine of precedent. The ......

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The Jury is an Essential Part of the Legal System

Criminal Law

It must be recognise that the early function of jury is very different form what it is today. The very first jury had acted as witness and provides......

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Equity Is That Specific Body of Law

Equity Law

circumstances where the conduct of the defendant is unconscionable'. Development of equity is attributed to the shortcomings of common law......

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English Law Permits Patients

Copyright Law

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Does Company Case-Law Illustrate a ‘Hands-Off’ Approach?

Company Law

Professor Sealy: 'traditional unwillingness of the courts to undertake to review matters of commercial judgment or policy or of internal administration'...

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The Statutory Derivative Action & Unfair Prejudice Remedy

Company Law

This chapter seeks to analyse the remedies available to a company in event of a breach of duty by directors. Thus the statutory derivative action a......

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Case Analysis Test Bonnard V Perryman

Equity Law

This is a neutral citation of the case that can be found in volume 2 of the Chancery Law Reports for 1891, at the beginning of page 269. On 27th......

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Who Was in Breach of the Contract?

Contract Law

A contract is between two parties, an offeror and an offeree. If a contract is to be enforceable, it must have all the required elements such ......

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Changes in Law: Rape Inside Marriage

English Legal System

Prior to this case, statute did little to assist a married woman seeking to bring an action against her husband for rape...

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An Offer Is a Proposal Made by One Party to Another

Contract Law

An offer is a proposal made by one party (offeror) to another (oferee) indicating a willingness to enter a contract.(Brown and Sukys pg 153) To ......

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Legal Obligations in Recruitment and Selection

Employment Law

The concept of company strategy battles with the continuing issue of shaping the overall purpose and scope of an organization. From a current ......

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The Doctrine of Mistake

Contract Law

The purported basis of the doctrine of mistake is that contracts within law are about agreement, consensus ad idem,  when which all parties involved have a uniform understanding of the terms to the agreement,...

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What is Constitute Consideration

Contract Law

Introduction What is Consideration? Consideration is a necessary factor that for the information in the contract. It consists of a promise ......

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Jury System Criminal

Criminal Law

The issue, under discussion is The historic decline of trial by Jury is to be welcomed. Trial by Jury serves no useful function and should therefore be abolished....

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Corporate Governance

Company Law

There are have been various definition s of corporate governance but for the purpose of this essay ,'Corporate governance refers to the way in which companies are governed......

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Harassment in the Workplace: Victims of Discrimination

Criminal Law

The issue of sex discrimination in the workplace has always been one in which the appropriateness of the woman’s behaviour has been subject to scrutiny....

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Separation of Powers and Constitutional Government

Constitutional Law

hellip; the separation of powers should not be explained in terms of a strict distribution of functions between the three branches of government, but in terms of a network of rules and principles...

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Comparison between Malaysia and United Kingdom

Constitutional Law

A land without law would lead to the destruction of peace and harmony. In the same tone, a country without policies will result in dissatisfaction ......

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