Articles tagged as UK Law
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Constitutionalism & Good Governance: A Dangerous Servant
Administrative Law
The idea of constitutionalism developed by John Locke is closely associated with limitation of power of government. This concept brings with it a ......
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The Protected Characteristic of Religion or Belief
Employment Law
Religious discrimination is more complicated than other forms of discrimination because it is intrinsically linked to racial, ethnic and cultural discrimination...
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Criticisms of Shareholder and Stakeholder Debate
Business Law
“...the company, as an artificial person, can have no interests separate from the interests of those who are associated with it, whether as shareholders, creditors, employers, suppliers, customers or in some other way. So, the crucial question is, when we refer to the company, to the interests of which of those sets of natural persons are we referring? Of course, one could take the view that the beauty of referring to the interests of the company, without any further specification of what is meant, is that the answer to my question is left wholly ambiguous and obscure ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Law Recognises Person as Legal Capacity
Civil Law
Legal capacity is defined at Goodey et al. (2008, p. 98) as “law recognises a person as having legal capacity only when that person understands and appreciates the consequences of their actions”....
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Arbitrator Can Determine the Proper Law
Commercial Law
The significance of the international arbitration is that one of the foreign legal system and a foreign country is involved, thus they have the......
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The Definition of Intention Case
Criminal Law
The actus reus for murder is the unlawful killing of a human being caused by an act or omission of the defendant.......
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The Buyers Rights to Reject
Commercial Law
With the economic globalization,the trade between the countries are more and more frequent.These transaction are referred to as export transactions......
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Performance of Existing Duty Shouldn't Constitute Consideration
Contract Law
Consideration itself means ‘some right, interest, profit or benefit accruing to one party or some forbearance, detriment, loss of responsibility ......
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Relationship between EC and Domestic Law
Civil Law
hellip; EC Law Has Paramountcy Over National Law Because Parliament In Passing The 1972 Act Intended This … If A Future Parliament Were To Provide Otherwise, The UK Courts Would Be Obliged To Give Effect To National Law....
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The Concepts of Unjust and Unjustified Enrichment
Contract Law
“As regards the evaluation of the enrichment, the use of money is in itself a non-money benefit which has to pass the tests applied ......
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Discuss the Law Relating to Omissions and Loco Parentis
Criminal Law
...it is legitimate for the law to criminalize holding someone underwater so that they drown, but not to seek to compel......
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English Legal System Delegated Legislation
English Legal System
Acts of Parliament are only a small part of the annual legislative output. Statutory Instruments (which are themselves only one kind of delegated legislation) outnumber Public General Acts by a factor of twenty and outweigh them by a factor of five....
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Significance of Judicial Review
Administrative Law
In R (Alconbury) v Secretary of State [2001] Lord Hoffman described the significance of Judicial Review in the subsequent statement: ‘The ......
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Suspicious Activity Report Regime in the UK
Commercial Law
The Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a piece of information which alerts the relevant authorities of any suspicious customer activity . This ......
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Breach of Duty in Corporate Form
Business Law
The corporate form as a trading vehicle is the preferred business model for entrepreneurs as it provides a corporate veil over the element of risk ......
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Limited Liability Company
Business Law
As the name itself defines a limited liability company is the company where the shareholders liability towards the loss or deficit is limited by shares. Here the only investment a shareholder......
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The Use of Super Injunctions by Courts
Administrative Law
In pursuing this legal project, I aim to discover the use of ‘Super Injunctions’ as a weapon used by the Courts to gag investigative ......
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Business Ethics and Corporate Governance - McDonalds
Business Law
Corporate Governance: the way in which the board is structured, changes over time, relations with shareholders, and shareholder activism...
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The Limits on Parliamentary Sovereignty
Administrative Law
Over the years experts have argued for the limits on parliamentary sovereignty to be recognised and that courts should not defend statutes ......
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Fixed and Floating Charges in United Kingdom
Commercial Law
Fixed charges are the charges that are held against some specified, tangible assets. The charges are raised immediately after it makes a deal ......
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The Law of Agency and the Agent
Commercial Law
A person who has been employed to carry out task or act for another or as a representative for third party in dealings is known as an agent ......
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Sales of Goods Act 1979 Details
Commercial Law
Sale of Goods Law This is the act of English parliament which deals with the sale and buying of goods. The Act includes sections from sales ......
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Critical Coverage of Syndicated Loan Agreement
Business Law
The case in question scrutinizes what will happen when a lender is a group of people rather than one individual and how they may desire to vary their terms ......
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The Supremacy of the Law
Administrative Law
Law, as it is the command of the Sovereign which means that law has its source in sovereign authority, law is accompanied by sanctions, and the ......
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Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms
Commercial 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 ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
