Business Law in UK: Classification, Jurisdictions, Sources, and Impact on Multilingual Organizations

BSC (Hons) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WITH
FOUNDATION
SEMESTER 1, EXAMINATION 2021/22
BUSINESS LAW
MODULE NO: BMP4002
Exam Paper Release Date & Time: Saturday 11 June 2022 at 10:00am
Submission Cut-off Date & Time: Monday 13 June 2022 at 10:00am
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Answer to Q. 1 (i), (ii)
The UK Classification of Law
According to area with geographical considerations the law in UK is divided into three systems i.e.,
Scotland, northern Ireland and Wales & England. Whole citizens are governed by the constitutional
law and it forms the basis of law for the governance of whole system as well (Charlson, 2020.). The
term law in UK means the set rules made or formulated by the administrators of the system which
governs the behaviour of the people and all those who are associated with the territory directly or
indirectly.
The system of law is broadly classified into two categories known as Civil and Criminal Law. There
exists other system also known as statutory laws which are properly formulated by the parliament.
They regulate how the people will be behaving in any society also the directions leading to the
controlled conduct of the individuals are concerned under these set of regulations. Both the civil and
criminal law may involve the punishments and sometimes may overlap with each other.
Criminal law refers to that branch of law where the offences which are committed are said to be
committed against the state and not against the particular individual it is done against. The measure
of correction here is fine and also the infliction of punishments (Cooper and Kirk, 2021.). These
offences are categorised as larger offences and are crimes against the society as a whole. It includes
the cases like Murder, Assault, robbery , dacoity , etc.
Civil Law is the area where the offences when are committed are considered to be against only the
specific person against whom it is actually committed and not against the whole society. It relates to
the issues or conflicts between the specific people or community in the area. The form of
punishment which is usually inflicted on the person who committed the offence is compensation.
The cases like negligence, breach of contract, breach of trust, defamation, etc. are included in this
category. The plaintiff under these kind of offences directly sues the defendant for the finances lost
by him due to the mistake of defendant.
Other category here is the non statutory law. In such cases no need for the formulation of any
legislation is there in this type of laws. Rather they just work as the remedy against the whenever
any right is violated. For the contracts, torts concerned, nuisances, trespasses, etc. only the civil
regulations are enough to provide the remedy against the wrongdoer and the formulation of laws by
the long processes is not mandatory in this kind of regulations.
Answer to Q. 1(iii)
Jurisdictions of the United Kingdom
The jurisdiction in UK is parted in three categories as already mentioned in part 1 of the answer.
These are England and Wales, Scotland jurisdiction and Northern Ireland. The abstracted judicial
scheme is provided in the jurisdiction of UK as that being the Westminster (the prime law makers).
The base of the law of negligence, case Donogue v. Stevenson lays down that all the three
jurisdictions of great Britain are essentially bound by the appeals to the common court that is the
Supreme Court of UK. It is the advances court of civil appeals considered highest amongst all
(DiMatteo and Poncibó, 2018.). The population and the figures in UK count on the strength of UK
as a whole along with giving strong base the these distinct legal systems. The Scots law even uses
the system which is quite alien to the England and Wales jurisdictions but the English system owes
much of the origin of its Civil law to the Scots only.
Answer to Q. 2 (i), (ii)
The UK Source of Law
The sources of law covers the legislations or laws made by the European conventions, customs, the
laws which are incorporated, the regulations which are designated along with the Human Rights
Convention of European Union. These are the prime sources from which the law in England derive
majority of its authority in the regular running.
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