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.
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....
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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....
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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. ...
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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....
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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 ......
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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. ...
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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. ...
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
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
Consent for the Purposes of Sexual Offences
Criminal Law
Described by the Home Office Review, Setting the Boundaries, as a ‘patchwork quilt of provisions’, the old law on sexual offences was a hodgepodge of archaic and discriminatory requirements....
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Disposition of Property on Death Has Always Been a Very Complex Issue
Equity Law
Two peculiar types of wills are relevant to our case, the first one being the mirror will, the other is known in equity as a joint will, both are m......
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UK Legal Procedures for Starting a New Business
Business Law
This assignment will explain what legal procedures need to be followed in the UK to start up a new business....
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
Redundancy Consultation and Legal Requirements
Employment Law
Redundancy has become a fact of life due to the current economic climate, there are many employers likely to be faced with the challenge ......
Last modified: 7th Aug 2019
