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Assignment on Business law in UK

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1TASK 2...........................................................................................................................................3TASK 3............................................................................................................................................4TASK 4............................................................................................................................................5CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTIONLegal system refers to a procedure and process for interpreting and enforcing the law. Itelaborates rights and responsibilities in variety of ways. English legal system administrated bycourts in England and Wales, which rule on both civil and criminal matters. English legal systemis considered as mother of all common laws. Business law governs businesses and considered asbranch of civil law (Beamish, 2013). Commercial law regulates corporate contracts,manufacturing of goods, hiring practices and sales of goods. In this project report informationregarding existing business law in UK and passage of bill through parliament will be discussed.This also covers problem that Pegasus is going through. Various methods and provisions will beprovided to solve these problems. TASK 1 Division of law: The United Kingdom has three different legal system: one each forEngland and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The court of appeal which encompasses onlyEngland and Wales, consist only civil division and criminal division. Civil division hears appealagainst decision of high court and criminal division hears appeal about alleged errors of law inmagistrates and crown courts. Constitution of UK is formed partially in written formate. Lawsare implemented by government in UK. Sources of law are the origins of law, the binding rules that helps to govern a territory.UK consist of different laws and different sources are included to form these laws. Four principalsources of UK law are legislation, common law, European union law and the Europeanconvention on human rights. LEGISLATION- Legislation is a law created by legislature. The most important pieces oflegislation are act of parliament. Principal legislature is the UK parliament, which isbased in London. This is the only body that has power to pass laws in all the fourcountries (Pathak, 2013). The UK parliament consist of House of Commons and Houseof Lords. The house of commons consist of 650 peoples as member of parliament. Thesemembers represents a geographical constituency, whose electors vote using a “ first-past-the-post” system. Each elector has one vote and members who get highest vote will beelected and MP of that constituency. The house of lords consist of 800 peoples, of whom600 is selected by queen on recommendations of Prime Minister. The other members are1
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