Understanding Business Law in the UK: Sources of Law, Impact on Multilingual Organizations, and Employment Law

BUSINESS LAW

Table of Contents
BUSINESS LAW...........................................................................................................................1
Answer 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Answer 2..........................................................................................................................................5
(i)..................................................................................................................................................5
(ii)................................................................................................................................................5
(iii)...............................................................................................................................................6
Answer 3..........................................................................................................................................7
Impact of Employment law on commercial organization in UK.................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals......................................................................................................................9

Answer 1
(i) Law is a set of rules, regulations or guidelines being laid down by the government which
govern the relationship between the different states and it's citizens. In other words, a binding
custom or a practice formally enforced by the authority to administer the overall community. The
term law has an important role in the society because it maintains the consistency, human
functioning and peacefulness within the general-public, communal bodies, government
organisation and global order (Habibnezhad, Ameri and Hosseini, 2021). Law from the
perspective of English law refers to the principles which are enforceable by the state government
which would assist them in the administration of the justice.
(ii)The laws in UK has been categorised under Private law which deals with the civil matters and
Public law which deal with the criminal matter jurisdiction (Wan, 2019). The meaning and
characteristics of public and private law are further explained as:
 Public law: It is mainly concerned with the relationship between the state and its
citizen which is being regulated by the criminal law as it usually proceed in the name
of the state and victims represented as a prosecution. There is a punishment imposed
on the individuals who are guilty or get convicted. The characteristics are:
 The aim is to deter the crime by punishing through fine or conviction or both.
 An accused is prosecuted by the state which was held in R v Adams, 2020.
 The burden of proof is on the state who has to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
 The process of hearing is known as trial which is conducted in the Magistrate Court.
 Private law: It is strongly concerned with the rights and liabilities of an individual's
towards one another which is based on the concept of privity of contract. The state is not
directly involved in the dispute rather they frame the legislations which regulate or
govern the matters in court or tribunals. It is also known as civil law and following are
the characteristics of it:
1. The purpose is to enforce the rights of the citizens.
2. Claimant would sue the defendant to enforce it's rights which was held in Donoghue v
Stevenson, 1932.
3. The burden shifts with the balance of probability and mostly relied on the claimant.