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Written with business students in mind,
Business Law puts the law into a context that they can grasp easily. Case studies open each chapter and readers are regularly asked to consider how the content applies to routine business problems so that they fully engage with the topics, understand, and can approach the law independently with confidence.
List of contents
- Part 1 Introduction
- 1: How to study law for businesses
- Part 2 The English Legal System
- 2: The English legal system, constitution and human rights
- 3: Creating, finding, and applying the law
- 4: Dispute resolution for businesses
- Part 3 Contractual Obligations
- 5: Establishing an agreement: offer and acceptance
- 6: Establishing the contract: consideration, intention to create legal relations, and certainty of terms
- 7: Factors affecting the validity of a contract
- 8: Terms of a contract
- 9: Statutory regulation of contracts
- 10: Ending the contract
- Part 4 Tortious Liability
- 11: The tortious liability of businesses in negligence and nuisance
- 12: Non-physical damage and liability for economic loss
- 13: Responsibilities of employers for the torts of employees and statutory duties
- Part 5 Company Law
- 14: Legal requirements when establishing a business enterprise
- 15: The administration of corporations
- 16: Duties relating to corporation finance and capital
- 17: The management of corporations
- Part 6 Agency Law
- 18: Businesses and the responsibility of agents
- Part 7 Employment
- 19: Hiring staff and establishing the contract of employment
- 20: Ending employment contracts at common law; and duties to redundant and transferring staff
- 21: Statutory regulation of dismissals
- 22: Equality in employment relationships
- 23: Statutory and common law regulation of the conditions of employment
- Part 8 Intellectual Property and Data Protection
- 24: Intellectual property and data protection
About the author
Dr James Marson is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Reader in Law. He is Head of Research for Law at Sheffield Hallam University.
Dr Katy Ferris is an Associate Professor in Business Law at Nottingham University.
Summary
Written with business students in mind, Business Law puts the law into a context that they can grasp easily. Case studies open each chapter and readers are regularly asked to consider how the content applies to routine business problems so that they fully engage with the topics, understand, and can approach the law independently with confidence.
