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.

Preface Table of cases Table of statutes Table of statutory instruments Table of European and International legislation Part 1: Introduction: getting started

Study skills
The nature of law
How the law is made
Resolving legal disputes

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

The law of contract: Offer and acceptance
The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity
The terms of the contract at common law
Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services
Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence
The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity
Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach
The law of agency

Part 3: The law of tort

The tort of negligence
Negligence and special duty situations
Product liability
Occupiers' liability, nuisance and vicarious liability

Part 4: Elements of employment law

Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work
Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment
Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy

Part 5: Introduction to company law

Business organisations
Forming a registered company
Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital
The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors
Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection

Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law

Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks
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