Law for Business Students

Alix Adams is a barrister with over 30 years’ experience of teaching law from GCSE to degree and postgraduate level.   Stephanie Caplan is a barrister and a Senior Lecturer at Kings Business School, Kings College London and Westminster Business School, University of Westminster with extensive experience in teaching law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and with a special interest in employment law.   Graeme Lockwood is a Senior Lecturer in business law at Kings Business School, Kings College, London with a broad range of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate level and on executive business courses. He is a prominent researcher with extensive publications in employment law.

Contents

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Preface

Table of cases

Table of statutes

Table of statutory instruments

Table of European International legislation

 

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 The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity

11 Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach

12 The law of agency

 

Part 3: The law of tort

13 The tort of negligence

14 Negligence and special duty situations

15 Product liability

16 Occupiers’ liability, nuisance and vicarious liability

 

Part 4: Elements of employment law

17 Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work

18 Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment

19 Rights at work:Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy

 

Part 5: Introduction to company law

20 Business organisations

21 Forming a registered company

22 Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital

23 The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors

24 Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection

 

Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law

25 Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trade marks

26 Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence

 

Appendix 1: Additional resources

Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and Review questions – outline answers

Index