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.
The Citizen and the State
Constitutional Law
Judicial review is one way that an individual can dispute the process of how a decision was made by a public authority. The “courts will not ......
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What Are Constitutional Conventions?
Constitutional Law
The constitution of the United Kingdom encompasses many sources, both legal and non-legal. The legal sources govern the entire society and range ......
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Contract Can Only Be Ceased by Plaintiff
Contract Law
The fundamental idea is that the contract can only be ceased by plaintiff where the term breached is a significant one ......
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Sources of Establishment and Written Constitution
Constitutional Law
The quotation by Barendt, which comes from a passage in Feldman, suggests that because the power to govern and guide is held within ......
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Introduction of the Equality Act
Employment Law
This is a written report of the changes from old law to the introduction of the Equality Act 2010 in terms of how discrimination is treated ......
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Transfer of Undertaking Regulations
Employment Law
What is TUPE Common law defined a contract of employment as “a personal contract between the employer and employee; when that relationship ......
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Against Codifying the UK's Constitutional Arrangements
Constitutional Law
In light of the statement above, the arguments for and against codifying the UK’s constitution will be set out in the following essay ......
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The Law Relating to Exemption
Contract Law
As technology has changed and advanced so much over the recent years the law needs to be in a position to cope with these changes. Therefore contract law in the United Kingdom has undergone significant change....
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Enquiry into Knife Crime in Britain
Criminal Law
On June 29th last year, sixteen-year-old Ben Kinsella was celebrating the end of his GSCE with his friends in Shillibeers Brasserie Bar, in London. During their celebrations trouble broke out between Ben’s friend Alfie and a man called Osman Ozdemir....
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Dear Alice, I hereby declare the trust for you
Equity Law
In Knight v. Knight [1840], Lord Langdale MR declared that three certainties were needed to establish a valid trust, that is, certainty of words or......
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Bus Stop Negligence Scenario
Contract Law
The Bus Stop Problem Queenie, a single parent, lived with her son Brian, who was six years old, and her four month-old baby girl, Jemima. Queenie w......
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Contractual Obligations
Contract Law
The aim of damages is to make sure that the claimant doesn’t suffer from the defendants breach of contract, but to put the claimant back into the position...
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Contract of Carriage
Contract Law
Contract of carriage. The contract of carriage for monetary reward constitutes a type of locatio conductio operis, which is a contract for the letting and hiring of services, whereas an agreement of gratuitous carriage will classify the contract as one of deposit....
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Company has No Strictly Technical Meaning
Constitutional Law
Company has “no strictly technical meaning”; the nature and constitution of company derives from formation and practice and is governed by Companies Act 2006, and is also crystallised...
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Equity Functions
Equity Law
The creation of equity was necessary in order to make the fixed and rigid common law, more flexible and fair. In ancient England, at certain......
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Private Limited Company Differentiating to Two Types
Company Law
Private Limited Company is differentiating to two types, which are by share and by guarantee. Majority amount of the trading companies are private.....
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Law Questions
Common Law
There are quite a lot of definitions of law but no agreement as to the precise meaning. Some of the definitions of law are as follows:...
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There Are Two Ways to Create an Express Trust
Equity Law
There are two ways to create en express trust; these are declaration of self as a trustee and the transfer of property to trustees. For an express......
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Distinguishing Between Employees Workers and Self Employed
Employment Law
The Supreme Court is the highest appeals court in England and Wales in most of the cases . Before getting into discussion about employment ......
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Agreement Contract Negotiations
Contract Law
Agreement Contract Negotiations. The concept of a duty to carry on negotiations in good faith is inherently repugnant to the adversarial position of the parties when involved in negotiations. Each party to the negotiations is entitled to pursue his (or her) own interest, so long as he avoids making misrepresentations......
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The Separate Legal Personality of a Company
Company Law
>A limited company has a separate legal personality from its members, or shareholders. The barrier between the company’s assets and those of its members is known as the ‘veil of incorporation’....
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Collective Redundancy Situation and Employee Representatives
Employment Law
With cuts in public spending and the new trend on the enforcement of competence, redundancies are now the main concern in public sector. This ......
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An Advance Analysis on Does the Selection Process of the Judiciary
Constitutional Law
The judicial appointment system in England and Wales has been changed with the introduction of the Judicial Appointment Commission (JAC). This is a......
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