Law for Business Students, 12th Edition

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