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.

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British Airways Should Focus on their Quality Standards.

Business Law

British Airways is a market leader in the United Kingdom air line operations. In the last decade due to immense increase in competition there has been erosion in their.....

Last modified: 7th Aug 2019

E commerce and E Contracts

Commercial Law

The advent of new technologies such as the internet and other networks have changed the business world and provided the trading processes ......

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Impact of Legal Aid Cuts on Domestic Abuse and Immigration Cases

Criminal Law

While campaigners against the cuts and reforms of legal aid in the United Kingdom seem to receive very little media attention, secondary sources of legislation ensure transparency of the most important and impactful measures taken by the government in creating political policies. ...

Last modified: 7th Aug 2019

Role of Good Faith in Modern Commercial Law

Commercial Law

In comparison with other common and civil law jurisdictions, in the English commercial law, there is no general obligation for a party to act in good faith, either on contracting, negotiation or even performance. ...

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Separate Corporate Responsibility and Lifting the Corporate Veil

Company Law

This essay attempts to explain why separate corporate personality ensures that the corporate veil is lifted in exceptional cases, and to what extent it is reasonable for British courts to do so....

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Liability of Companies for Dishonour of Cheques

Business Law

A cheque is said to be dishonoured when the payment is not made on its presentment to the bank. Before 1988, no liability was incurred in case ......

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Development of Parody within Intellectual Property Law

Copyright Law

In this essay I will establish a broad definition of parody within intellectual property law and highlight the potential areas of difficulty in defining what constitutes parody....

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Outline and Describe the Scottish Civil Court Structure

Example Essays

Scotland's law is seen as a mixed system and not purely the common law system and this due to scot lawyers preferring to take ideas from Roman Law and other continental legal systems rather than the English Law. ...

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Trademark Infringement vis-à-vis the TATA vs. Greenpeace Case

Business Law

The Trade Marks Act, 1999 has been formulated to act as a powerful tool in the hands of trade mark owners and users and to protect their interests ......

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Fundamental Rights and Directive State Principles

Administrative Law

When the British left India, after two-hundred years, India’s socio-economic conditions were in shambles. Large sections of the people ......

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Definition of Employee Relation

Employment Law

Employment relation can be defining as employer and employees relationship in a formal and informal nature that arises between management ......

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The English Law on Insurance Contracts

Contract Law

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....

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The Evolution of Rape Law

Criminal Law

Many people think that rapists are sexual psychopaths with perverted thoughts and actions. Research, however, disagrees with this myth....

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Polluting Event of Churchills

Environmental Law

entify and explain the criminal liability (If any) of each of Brockwells polluting event and that of Churchill’s, and of any individuals involved......

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Equality Act and Discrimination Within the Workplace

Employment Law

The recent introduction of the Equality Act 2010 has brought about many changes to the law regarding discrimination within the workplace ......

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Unfair Dismissal Against Wrongful Dismissal

Employment Law

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 ......

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Men's Rea

Criminal Law

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......

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Risks of Buyer Seller and Ship Owner

Contract Law

In today’s world, the world of commerce and trade, goods are being always transported from one place to another, one country to another ......

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Corporate Manslaughter - Shipping Safety

Criminal Law

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......

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Principle of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the UK’s Uncodified Constitutional System

Constitutional Law

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. ...

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Issues Around Trustees Responsibilities

Administrative Law

This question throws up issues around trustee’s responsibilities, duties and consequences if in breach of those duties....

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Legal Systems in English Law

English Legal System

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...

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The Civil Court in Scotland

Civil Law

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)....

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The Principles Behind Choice of Law with Regards to the Rome Regulations

International Law

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. ...

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Copyright Infringement Permission

Copyright Law

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....

Last modified: 7th Aug 2019