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Alix Adams (Autor)

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2012 | 7th edition
Pearson/Education
978-1-4082-8707-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Catering for a range of learning styles, Law for Business Students, clearly outlines the main legal rules and cases before reinforcing understanding through application of the law to business examples and topical news stories. A broad variety of end of chapter resources ensure students understand key terms and issues covered in the chapter and have the opportunity to practice answering questions and undertake activities relating to each topic, further enhancing their understanding and building their legal knowledge.

Autor

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

Inhalt

Guided tour

Publisher's Acknowledgements

Preface

Table of cases

Table of statutes

Table of statutory instruments

Table of European and 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

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

9 More defects: illegality and incapacity

10 Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach

11 The law of agency

12 Sale of goods: the contract and its terms

13 Sale of goods: transfer of ownership, performance and remedies for breach of contract

Part 3: The law of tort

14 Tort liability for defective goods

15 Tort liability for defective services

16 Tort liability for premises

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

19 Rights at work: protection against dismissal and redundancy

Part 5: Introduction to company law

20 Business organisation

21 Forming a registered company

22 Running the company: raising and maintaining capital

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

24 Company meetings and shareholder participation

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 quiz solutions

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2012
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, unspecified
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 189 x 249 mm
• Gewicht: 1120 g
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
• ISBN-10: 1-4082-8707-2 / 1408287072
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4082-8707-1 / 9781408287071
• Zustand: Neuware