Law For Business Students

Alix Adams has over 30 years' experience of teaching law from GCSE to degree and postgraduate level and is a barrister.

Part 1: Introduction: getting started

1 Study skills

2 The nature of law

3 How the law is made

4 Resolving legal disputes

Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods

5 The law of contract: offer and acceptance

6 The law of contract: consideration, intention and privity

7 The terms of the contract at Common Law

8 Statutory Terms in contracts for sale of goods and services

9 Defects in the contract: misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence

10 More defects: illegality and incapacity

11 Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach

12 The law of agency
Part 3: The law of tort

13 Tort liability for defective goods

14 Tort liability for defective services

15 Tort liability for premises

Part 4: Elements of employment law

16 Rights at work: the contract of employment and health and safety at work

17 Rights at work: protection against discrimination

18 Rights at work: protection against dismissal and redundancy

Part 5: Introduction to company law

19 Business organisation

20 Forming a registered company

21 Running the company: raising and maintaining capital

22 Daily management of the company: functions of directors, secretary and auditors

23 Company meetings and shareholder participation

Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law

24 Statutory intellectual property protection: copyright, designs, patents
and trade marks

25 Common law protection of intellectual property: passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence

Appendix 1: Additional resources

Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and quiz solutions

Index