Law For Business Students

Alix Adams (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

680 Seiten

2016 | 9th New edition
Pearson Education Limited (Verlag)
978-1-292-08893-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Alix Adams Law for Business Students is popular for explaining the law in a jargon-free, engaging style and exploring the law firmly within the business world in which it operates using real life examples.

Autor

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Harlow
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 186 x 248 mm
• Gewicht: 1084 g
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Berufs- und Fachschule
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
• ISBN-10: 1-292-08893-1 / 1292088931
• ISBN-13: 978-1-292-08893-8 / 9781292088938
• Zustand: Neuware