Business Law Analysis in the United Kingdom

Business law
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
Task 1...............................................................................................................................................6
Explain the basic nature of the legal system....................................................................................6
Task 2.............................................................................................................................................10
Illustrate the potential impact of the law on a business.................................................................10
Task 3.............................................................................................................................................15
Suggest appropriate legal solutions to business problems.............................................................15
Task 4.............................................................................................................................................20
Recommend appropriate legal solutions based upon alternative legal advice provided...............20
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................24
References......................................................................................................................................25
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Introduction
This assignment is having the analysis of sources of laws and the laws that should be followed
by the organization. After that, there is the discussion of the role of the government in making of
the law. The reforms that have taken place in-laws; their effectiveness is understood in this
assignment. After that, there is the analysis of the company law and the influences of the
company laws on the business that are running. Then there is the investigation of the different
legal problems that are there in business and how these problems can be solved is determined.
There can be the pros and cons of legal solutions on the problems of the business are discussed.
In each country, there is different legal system and the businesses have to follow that laws and
the framework that is designed by the nation for the businesses are evaluated in this assignment.
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Task 1
Explain the basic nature of the legal system.
P1. Explain different sources of law and laws that organizations must comply with.
According to the English legal system of the United Kingdom law are formed by the Parliament
and Government of the country. There are various sources of law added by constitutions,
executives, judiciaries, legislatures, international organizations and administrative agencies. The
constitution is the fundamental law of the country, the country has its own legislatures and
federal legislatures are the source of law because it derives statutory law and statutes. Executive
orders and bills are passed by President of the country. Judiciaries are also known as courts,
which is the governmental body of more judges who solve the disputes (Kuhlmann, and
Wollmann, 2014).
Administrative agencies are a state, federal, and local levels of the government that includes
commissions, departments, and bureaus, services etc. The common law, case laws, precedents
case laws, European law are also considered as sources of law. Every business organizations of
the country have to follow the regulations and legislation of the enacted law. The general laws
are applicable on the organizations are contract law, employment law, corporation law, anti-
discrimination law, Equality laws, labor laws, occupational safety and health rules, workers
compensations law and many other (Partington, 2016).
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P2. Explain the role of government in law-making and how the statutory and common law
is applied in the justice courts.
House of Commons (Members of Parliament) and House of Lords (appointed by the
government) plays an important role in lawmaking process of the United Kingdom. Parliament
legislature ha the supreme authority in the country, that examines and checks the functions of
government. Parliament approves the new laws and debate over it which is proposed by
Government. Both the houses together form the Parliament legislature. A bill becomes the Act
when it's wholly voting and support by both houses. House of Lords has the power to reject the
bill by parliament act of 1911 and 1949, but bill still becomes the law if rejected by lords
provided that it is reintroduced in the House of Lords (Haigh, 2015).
Common law: this is followed by many countries in the world combination of both common law
and statutory law is essential for the justice. This law frames new decisions which are made by
judges of the court. The operational level of the law is Procedural and this also known as case
law. The case laws are of two kinds first one is judgments become new laws when no statutes
and next one is judges interpret the previous law and forms new distinctions and boundaries
(Nelson, 2016).
Statutory laws: these laws are passed by several agencies of government. So the law is passed
by state and federal governments, ordinances formed by cities and towns having law power. New
laws are enacted to fulfill the demands of citizens, to format the previous law and to solve the
critical disputes (Craig, 2015).
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M1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the legal system in terms of recent reforms and
developments.
There have many changes in the laws and regulations of the country in the recent time period.
The government of the country made reforms in the Employment law, labor laws, corporation
laws etc. supreme court is established with the re[placement of house of lords. The formation of
many tribunal services, judicial services, the creation of many family courts etc. The judges, law
reform committee, criminal revision committee parliament, and government departments play an
important role in reforms and developments of new laws (Faúndez, 2016).
The certain key changes in law reform are, formation of judicial appointment commission,
creation of sentencing council, formation of ombudsman services, national crime agency, college
of policing, new court for solving the international commercial disputes, etc. many new Acts are
also framed by the Parliament that, cyber security,, information technology, equality act,
protection from harassment act, etc. the laws and compliances are very effective for every
business organizations of the country (Faúndez, 2016).
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