Unit 7 Business Law: Assignment

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Qualification BTEC Level 4 HND Diploma in Business
Unit number and title Uni7: Business Law
Submission date June 10th, 2021 Date Received 1st submission
Re-submission Date Date Received 2nd submission
Student Name Bui Doan Hai Student ID GBH16523
Class GBH0907 Assessor name Nguyen Le Thu
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Contents
I) Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 4
II) Analysis ................................................................................................................................................. 4
1) Definition of Law .............................................................................................................................. 4
2) The role of government and parliament in law-making and how statutory and common law is
applied in the justice courts. .................................................................................................................... 7
a) The role of government and parliament in law-making ............................................................. 7
b) How the judge applies law in resolving the legal suits ............................................................... 9
Reference: ................................................................................................................................................... 10

I) Introduction
This report was written by the author for the purpose of analyzing and giving a basic
understanding of the UK legal system and the difference between it and the Vietnamese legal
system. In order to do that, this report will provide basic analysis of theories about the UK legal
system such as: Source of law; And the role of government and parliament in law. Moreover, in
order to be able to provide accurate and practical analysis, the author also cited a law suit that
was decided in a court in the UK - Fisher v Bell (1961).
II) Analysis
1) Definition of Law
According to Pandey (2018), in general, Law should be defined as an action norm that applies to
all types of actions, whether live or inanimate, logical or illogical. Besides, Salmond (1912) also
gave another way of defining the law. In which, Salmond indicated that the definition of Law is a
tool recognized by sovereign states and used as a tool to ensure the justice in that country. All of
above definitions could be sum up as law is a form of ethics, morality and the ability to judge
whether any act is right or wrong. Law is recognized by sovereign states and are used to ensure
justice in society. Moreover, in order to ensure the fairness and effectiveness of the law, the
sovereign state uses courts to enforce the law.
According to Hommes (1974), the function of law is ranging from individual level to international
level. However, significant of it are to define and structure the government and its different
organs, to protect the minorities from majorities and to foster stability, reliability, peace, security,
harmony, law and order in the society.
Law executes many essential roles, but the most important of these four are: