Sources of Law in UK : Report
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Sources of Law in UK : Report
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................1P1 Structure of the English legal system and different sources of laws.................................1P2 Role of government in law-making and application of statutory and common law.........3SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................4P3 (a) Employers obligation in relations to:...........................................................................4P3(b) Relevant employment laws and contract law that have potential impact on business.5SECTION 3......................................................................................................................................6P4 Appropriate legal solutions for above business problems.................................................6P5 Justification for solutions provided for business problems...............................................7SECTION 4......................................................................................................................................7P6 (a) Concepts and benefits of using alternative dispute resolution process........................7P6 (b) Recommendation of alternative legal solutions to the business problem....................8CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTIONBusiness laws are the legislation related to the operations of business, employmentcondition, rights and resolution of disputes. It involves statutory, common and civil laws for abytype of organisation to comply with. English legal framework mainly deals with the legislations,common laws and European laws. It is statutory framework that is applicable within thejurisdiction of two countries such as England and Wales. In this report, different source of law inUK have been discussed. Further, role of government in making laws have been discussed alongthe legal procedure which is followed by them. At last, various case studies related to businessand employment have been considered to analyse solution that can be applied to them.SECTION 1P1 Structure of the English legal system and different sources of laws.As per simple concept of law, the major function of legal system is to develop andmaintain the basic structure of the society with some enlisted behaviours. English legalframework mainly deals with the legislations, common laws and European laws (Scheuer, 2015).It is statutory framework that is applicable within the jurisdiction of two countries such asEngland and Wales. It is usually different from other foreign countries who are members ofEuropean Union and it is based on the civil law structure. English legal system is not identifiedas separate for England and Wales because it has been developed by the previous politicalunions, designed by the same previous independent countries. This system has been applied bythe justice in court to resolve the cases of civil laws and criminal laws. Legislations are the partof legal system which has been developed by government by taking acceptance of parliament ofUK. Structure of this system has been divided in two main jurisdiction which are mentionedbelow:1
Illustration 1: English legal structure(Source: UK Court Structure, 2018)Purpose of these courts in legal system is different because they are established to dealwith different type of cases and provide judgements. Magistrate court is lower court, deal withthe cases as well as perpetration to the crown court. It usually holds the simple cases of civil lawswhich involves the family preceding bodies along with the youth courts. Crown courts are upperthan magistrates, consider chargeable criminal cases that has been extremely transferred from themagistrates courts of justice (Bartlett, Rhode and Grossman, 2016). Hearing of serious criminallaw cases have been undertaken in these courts and cases have sent for sentencing as well asappeals. County courts have to deal with the most complex and most of the civil importantcases. High courts mainly consist of three important divisions such as companies, divisional andadministrative court etc. Court of appeal is the judiciary body that consist two main divisionssuch as civil and criminal. It provides judgement on the appeal made from the high courts andhears the appeal concerning with the civil laws and family justice. Last and foremost apex bodyof legal system is Supreme Court which has replaced the House of Lords as the highest court inEngland and Wales. It hears the appeal from the court of appeal and the high courts only in somesituations. Decision provided by the Supreme Court has been considered as final and needs to beabided by all the parties.There are various sources of law in English legal system such as acts of parliamentswhich are created by legislature of UK which are considered as two houses of parliament.2
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