Law for Business Students

<div class="c-section-headers-number-list_container"> <h4 class="h5">Preface</h4> <h4 class="h5">Table of cases</h4> <h4 class="h5">Table of statutes</h4> <h4 class="h5">Table of statutory instruments</h4> <h4 class="h5">Table of European and International legislation</h4> <h3>Part 1: Introduction: getting started</h3> <ol> <li>Study skills</li> <li>The nature of law</li> <li>How the law is made</li> <li>Resolving legal disputes</li> </ol> <h3>Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods</h3> <ol start="5"> <li>The law of contract: Offer and acceptance</li> <li>The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity</li> <li>The terms of the contract at common law</li> <li>Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services</li> <li>Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence</li> <li>The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity</li> <li>Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach</li> <li>The law of agency</li> </ol> <h3>Part 3: The law of tort</h3> <ol start="13"> <li>The tort of negligence</li> <li>Negligence and special duty situations</li> <li>Product liability</li> <li>Occupiers' liability, nuisance and vicarious liability</li> </ol> <h3>Part 4: Elements of employment law</h3> <ol start="17"> <li>Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work</li> <li>Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment</li> <li>Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy</li> </ol> <h3>Part 5: Introduction to company law</h3> <ol start="20"> <li>Business organisations</li> <li>Forming a registered company</li> <li>Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital</li> <li>The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors</li> <li>Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection</li> </ol> <h3>Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law</h3> <ol start="25"> <li>Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks</li> <li>Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence</li> </ol> <h4 class="h5">Appendix 1: Additional resources</h4> <h4 class="h5">Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and Review questions – outline answers</h4> <h4 class="h5">Index</h4> </div>