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.
Equity New Rights
Equity Law
The origin of equity can be attributed to one established principle which reflects the true nature of equity; equity would not allow a ‘wrong to be without a remedy...’...
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Commercial Lenders Law
Company Law
Commercial Lenders Law. The law of Undue Influence is undoubtedly disconcerting to lawyers and commercial lenders as it offers one party an equitable right to have a transaction set aside. Should the Court....
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Truancy and Exclusion: Right of Appeal in Education Law
Educational Law
Advise Ms Thomas on her rights of appeal in relation to Patrick's permanent exclusion and on her legal position in relation to Patrick's truancy....
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Remedies Available for a Breach of Contract
Contract Law
What are the general principles in the formation of a contract? What are the various forms of remedies available for a breach of contract ......
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Historical Development of Trust Modern Property
Equity Law
In order to understand modern property law, one needs to have a basic knowledge of the law of trusts and an outline of the events in the past. The ......
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Criminal Justice System Accommodate Young Offenders
Criminal Law
In the golden ages it was believed that a child should be seen as a person and not as an object of concern however over time the treatment of children has been more enlightened....
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Labour Employment Rights
Employment Law
Labour Employment Rights - Labour law also known as employment law deals with the body of laws, administrative rulings and precedents which addresses the legal rights of and restrictions on working people and their......
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The Rule of Hearsay
Criminal Law
In everyday language, Hearsay is well known as unverified information heard or received from someone else or simply matters whose facts you one is not sure of, or simply rumour....
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The Test of Reasonableness
Contract Law
In UCTA the person relying on an exclusion clause has to prove that it is reasonable.Whilst the reasonableness test gives the courts ......
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The Unwritten British Constitution
Constitutional Law
Constitution is the utmost supreme law of the land in any country .By the meaning of the constitution it is the codified drafted well organize ......
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The Essential Elements to a Successful Claim in Negligence
Contract Law
Murphy may a have tort claim in negligence for breach of duty of care which Lord Goff looked at in Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd and under ......
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The Offence of Blackmailing
Contract Law
Peter’s liability The offence of blackmailing is defined in section 21 of the Theft Act 1968 (TA 1968) whereupon Peter has made a demand ......
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Claims for Unfair Dismissal, Contract of Employment
Employment Law
(1) unfair dismissal; (2) wrongful dismissal; and (3) discrimination on grounds of sex, race, disability, age and/ or trade union membership....
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Why Crime Statistics Fail?
Criminology
Crime statistics were first published by the police force in 1876 in England and in Wales. Crime statistics attempt to provide accurate statistical measures of crime in society....
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Certainty of Words Subject Matter and Objects
Equity Law
A trust will only come into existence if there is ‘certainty of words, certainty of subject matter and certainty of objects’ per Lord Langdale ......
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Courts and Fraud Exception
Criminal Law
Courts and Fraud Exception. The development of English case law in relation to the fraud exception is based on an American case: Sztejn v. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation, this was a decision of Judge Shientag......
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For an Indirect Discrimination
Employment Law
The key elements in establishing indirect discrimination are contained in s 1(2)(b) of the Sex Discriminations Act 1975. Indirect discrimination......
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Offer or an Invitation to Treat
Contract Law
On the 29th October 2010, Steven was making an invitation to treat by advertising in the New Focus Paper, “Yamaha Piano latest model, excellent ......
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Governmental Power by the Executive
English Legal System
This essay will evaluate the importance of constitutional conventions in constraining governmental power by the executive. Firstly, the ‘executive’ and ‘constitutional conventions...
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Resolving the Contradictions of Graduate Employability
Employment Law
1. INTRODUCTION 1.0 The Concept of Employability Employability skills are not job specific, but are skills which cut horizontally across ......
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Copyright Law UK
Copyright Law
This essay will explain the basis of copyright law in the UK, and how it protects authors and performers. The contention that all types of work and performances are protected...
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The Contracts Rights of Third Parties
Contract Law
The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999] does make an improvement to the law in that it reforms a doctrine which many parties regarded as unjust and commercially inconvenient...
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The European Courts of Justice in England and Wales
English Legal System
The relationship between the UK National courts and the ECJ are “vertical and multilateral”[1] as it exists on the recognition of the supremacy of EC law...
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The Differences Between Common Law and Equitable
Equity Law
Equity, according to Maitland, “is now that body of rules administered by our … courts of justice which, were it not for the operation of the ......
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