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.
Offer and Acceptance Analysis Formula
Contract Law
The offer and acceptance formula, developed in the 19th century, identifies a moment of formation when the parties are of one mind. This classical … ...
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Current Position of Privacy Law in the UK
Constitutional Law
In recent years, the law on privacy has developed from the time of the traditional breach of confidence cases such as Coco v Clark (1969) and … ...
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Essential Elements of a Valid Contract
Contract Law
1a Explain the different types of business contracts and discuss the essential elements of a valid business contract. (LO1) Business … ...
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Stare Decisis et Non Queita Movere
English Legal System
The English system of precedent is based on the Latin maxim: ‘Stare Decisis et Non Queita Movere’, stand by what has been decided and do not … ...
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Patent Infringement Protection
Copyright Law
Patent Infringement Protection – International and Comparative Patent Law: American Home Products v Novartis (2001) RPC 159 elevates the protocol questions to the test for patent infringement. Explain on the basis of the… ...
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Defence in an Accident Claim
Contract Law
Mr Fellows-Bennett shows you a defence in an accident claim which refers to the damages being claimed as ‘too remote’ and, in any event … ...
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Expression of thought
Copyright Law
Petersen J, giving judgement in 1916, determined that copyright was concerned with protecting the ‘expression of thought’ and not the ‘originality of ideas’. Copyright does not require that an expression must… ...
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The Origin of Civil Law
Constitutional Law
As well-known civil law or also known as civilian law is a legal system which is influenced by the Roman law and in especially the Corpus… ...
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An Agreement with Specific Terms
Contract Law
An offer refers to the willingness to contract within some specified terms .On the other hand, an acceptance is the unconditional agreement to the … ...
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Underrimae Fidei Requires Disclosure
Contract Law
Introduction The Marine Insurance Act 1906 enunciates in s.17 that ‘insurance is uberrimae fidei’. In the following sections , it can be seen … ...
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Sale of Goods Contracts
Contract Law
Sale of goods contracts are, without doubt, both the most common and the most important of all commercial contracts ...
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The Legality of the Police Stop and Search Powers
Criminology
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. ...
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Common Law Reasoning and Institutions
Constitutional Law
‘Judicial precedent is best understood as a practice of the courts and not as a set of binding rules. As a practice it could be refined or … ...
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Court Protection for Companies
Company Law
If the Court makes an order to appoint an examiner the examiners duty will be to examine the company’s affairs, the company will have the protection of the Court… ...
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Confidentiality and Privacy
Confidentiality Law
Confidentiality remains one of the most controversial topics in the arbitration since the 1980s. ...
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Differences of Employees and Independent Contractors
Employment Law
In the modern industrial era employers have shifted their reliance form employees (dependant or subordinate) to self employed or independent … ...
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Discharge or End of a Contract
Contract Law
INTRODUCTION. In contract law, discharge or end of a contract occurs when the parties have fully performed their contractual obligations … ...
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Asylum Seekers Children in the UK
EU Law
Asylum seekers children are faced and suffered from the scourge of war they are not decided to wage it or even to effect on it. They are paying t… ...
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General Principles of Law
English Legal System
The classic account given by Dicey of the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament, pure and absolute as it was, can now be seen to be out of place in the modern United Kingdom… (Lord Steyn in R (Jackson and Others) v. Attorney General) ...
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Protection Afforded by the Common Law to Employees Against Stress
Employment Law
At common law, an employer owes an employee certain duties that arise from an employment relationship. One of them is health and safety at work. ...
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Invasion of Privacy Is Not an Acknowledged Tort in the UK
Constitutional Law
Although there is no acknowledged Tort for privacy, there are ways in which it is protected. It has long been acknowledged in case law that there … ...
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Claims Within the Construction Industry
Contract Law
Problem Specification Claims within the construction industry are a common phenomenon as contractors often look to claim for financial … ...
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Compensation for Pure Psychiatric Harm
Contract Law
‘The law on the recovery of compensation for pure psychiatric harm is a patchwork quilt of distinctions which are difficult to justify’, Lord … ...
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To What Extent Does the Current Law Allow a Householder to Use Fatal Force Against an Intruder and Is the Current Approach Satisfactory?
Criminal Law
The doctrine of self-defence is a general defence which is considered to have been ‘an appropriate course of action in the circumstances in which he found himself'[1] carried out in the aim of reducing the risk of the individual becoming a victim of violence[2]. ...
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Penology and the Ethics of Punishment
Criminology
Deontological moral systems are characterized by a focus on obedience to independent moral rules or duties. In order to make correct moral choices, one hash to understand what his or her moral duties ...
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