Full Description
Law for Business Students 13e provides a clear and practical introduction to the legal principles relating to today's business environment. Written specifically for non law students, it explains core concepts in an accessible and engaging way, using real world cases to illustrate how business law operates in practice. This textbook will help you to identify legal issues, apply legal rules to business scenarios, and understand the legal implications of everyday commercial decisions.
Each chapter is user-friendly and includes tried and tested learning features to support your understanding, including 'worth thinking about' sections to encourage critical thinking and discussion, exam tips and study skills content to help you prepare effectively for your assessments, and review questions to put your learning into practice.
The new 13th edition is fully updated throughout to reflect important legal and societal developments across key areas of business law, particularly the growing impact of artificial intelligence on the law, with specific attention to employment law. The text also incorporates the most recent legislative reforms, including the Employment Rights Bill, together with updates in company law.
As a result, Law for Business Students is the essential text to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in your studies and to engage confidently with legal issues in your future business career.
Contents
1. Study skills
2. The nature of law
3. How the law is made
4. Resolving legal disputes
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
13. The tort of negligence
14. Negligence and special duty situations
15. Product liability
16. Occupiers' liability, nuisance and vicarious liability
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
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
25. Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks
26. Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence
