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The Law in England and China Compared

of binding precedent, but also in the lack of doctrines to act as a foundation of the law. However, there are many commonalities....

English Law, Corporate Identity, and the Doctrine of Separate Corporate Personality

for as the business owner. The subsequent purchase was funded with ?10,00 in debentures and cash. Salomon owned 20,001 of the 20,0...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Is an Employment Contract Enough?

relationship. This ranges from the ability of the courts to imply terms into the contract, through to mandatory aspects enshrined ...

Should Government Intervene in the Employment Contract?

If the nature of the contract is personal, and individual are free to enter and leave the contract then it is also possible to arg...

Employment Law and Employer Duties; A Case Study

is also an obligation on the employer to ensure that there are adequate welfare facilities arrangements, which may help counteract...

Human Rights Act of 1998 and the Sovereignty of Parliament

in law, unless there is an express and specific words that allow for human rights to be undermined. However, this case was heard b...

Critical Legal Studies and Whether or Not They are Outdated

or continual acceptance of the status quo (Berger and Luckmann, 1967). In many ways the artificial reality caused by this phenomen...

UK Doctrine of Insurable Interest

that may or may not happen)". (Oxford Dictionary of Law, 2003). Case law has also sought to dine insurance and cases such...

English Law and its Sources

Padfield, 1996). The principle source of law currently is that of legislation. This has become to most common form of new ...

Student Submitted English Law Case on Trusts and Death Without a Will

in the words used, whilst it will help if reference is made to the trust and trustees, this is not vital, as even directing one pa...

English Tort Law and the Fault Principle

London Electricity Board (1965) cannot be seen as having an intention to create harm. This leads to the presence of fault through...

United Kingdom Shipping Laws and Ownership Risk Positions

The move to non accompanied goods was also one that has created increased complexities with reference to the contract of sale and ...

Faulty Goods and Unfair Contract Exclusions Cases of English Contract Law

section 2 (2) states that this cannot be excluded apart form where it is reasonable to do so. Section 2 (23) also states that were...

Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy and the Concept of Rights

the issue of rights we may start with the theoretical foundation of the role that rights and the way these are seen in terms of e...

Does the World Respect English Insolvency Law?

the different corporate culture within the UK when compared to other European countries, such as Germany, where there is a more so...

Greece and Insurable Interest

FOB are given uniform definition and the responsibilities of each party, such as insurance, are clearly outlined (Incoterms, 2004)...

Scottish and English Housing Rights

the concept of the right to housing has emerged in different international conventions. One of the most basic is that if that of A...

Partial Debt Payment and the Role of Promissory Estoppel

to this, for example, in Pinnels Case (1602) 5 Co Rep 117a it was found that where the payment of part of a debt was at the credit...

Land Theft and Adverse Possession

for the occupant of the land that they have a possession that "becomes impregnable, giving him a title that is superior to all oth...

3 Questions non English Law Obligations

We may argue that the reason is due to the impossibility of the task as a result of external factors. Here we can use the case of ...

English Employment Law and the Unfair Dismissal Concept

The reason that the introduction was seen at this time can be traced to the high level of grievances seen between the...

Language Cases of Discrimination

by speaking only in Spanish, even while they leered in her direction. Upon investigation, the salesmen proclaimed their innocence,...

English Law Obligations

can cancel the party without being in breach of contract. If Mary is in breach of the contract she will be obligation to pout the ...

English Law and Corporate Veil Lifting

was the first time there was a real definition of the relationship between a parent company and its subsidiaries. This may clari...

Trials and Evidence of Previous Convictions

(BBC News, 2002, Wadham, 2002).It has also been argued that with falling rating the government want to increase the conviction rat...

English Law and LLPs

of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) (The Accountant, 2003). The main difference for the partners is the reduced and limited liability...

Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the 1981 Case of Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v. DHSS

a criminal action. The case was brought to clarify this, and the key element was the interpretation of the law by the judges....

English Contract Law and Tort Obligations

for breach of contract or its terms. Third parties were excluded due to both consideration and privity (McKendrick, 2000). It may ...

Tort Actions and English Law

may also be seen to give the case strength, as injury to a blind person was foreseeable and action had not been taken to protect ...