Classification of Laws and Legal System in the UK

BSc (Hons) Business Management
BMP4002Business Law
Assessment 1
Legal System for Business
Law
Contents
Introduction 2
Part 1: Classifications of Law 2-3
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK
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Explanation with examples the following as means of classification
of laws in the English Legal system 3
a) Civil Law 3
b) Criminal Law 3
Explanation of the role of the following Courts in the English Legal
system 3-4
a) High Court 3
b) Supreme Court 4
Part 2: Source of law 4-5
Explanationof Case Law as a source of laws 4
Explanation of the process of making Legislation 4
The meaning and examples of Delegated Legislation 5
Part 3: UK law making process: Employment Law 5-6
Statutory Duties of Employers to their employees 5
Wrongful Dismissal and Unfair Dismissal Actions
Conclusion 6
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Introduction
Business law is the important framework for all the civil law which provides the
corporation and bodies of laws that are being important for all the organisations. It helps out
to maintain functioning of business practices by implementing the laws like contract law,
employment, law of Tort and IPR (Yan, (2017)). Employment law helps out to protect the
rights of the individuals who have been working in the companies by providing them and
protecting them from discrimination and treat them in equal manner. As business law frames
the segments and the rules that are being led by companies while coming in any agreement.
This report will cover the classification of laws with their legal system in UK, various sources
of law. Further it will also cover the lawmaking process for employment law with the
wrongful dismissal and the duties for the employers.
Part 1: Classifications of Law
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK
Laws are mainly the rules that are being governed by the government in order to
protect the societies and also to provide proper rights to the individuals who are being living
in the country. It promotes the justice and the social well-being and also take action towards
the illegal activities.
In UK there are mainly two kinds of legal system that are civil and criminal law.
There are mainly two important sources of law that are primary and secondary source.
UK mainly have a common law legal system which used to cover out the legislation and the
important case laws and precedents in their legal manners these are mainly made of house of
commons and house of lords which used to promote and make the laws that are being
important for all the working of common law divisions (Pan, Zhang, and Qin, (2018)). As
the legal system of UK serves out the branches of executive, legislature and government and
they helps out to provide a proper partly written and partly codified constitution as it serves
out to be statutory law, which provides out all the important legislation and the rules that are
being needed in the Constitution. It mainly works through the presidents and the important
common law system through which they try to implement their working areas. It covers
precedents as judges and the areas through which to ensure fairness and equality among the
individuals.
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