Business Laws: UK Legal System, Classification of Laws, Courts, Case Law, Legislation, Delegated Legislation, Employment Law

Businesses Laws

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Part 1: ..............................................................................................................................................3
Part 2:...............................................................................................................................................5
Part 3: ..............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business Law is the branch of legal system which provides an orderly behaviour of
business affairs and the resolution of disputes in a fair manner. They regulate relations that arise
from conducting economic activities, which are either close subjects or functional relations with
such activities. Business Laws applies to the conduct of person, rights, relation and businesses
engaged in commerce, trade, sales and merchandising. Business laws also regarded as a branch
of civil law and works in issues relating to both public and private law (Nyugha, 2020) The arena
it deals with includes contracts, property, agency, instruments, bankruptcy and the like.
Commonly these laws are also referred as mercantile and commercial laws.
MAIN BODY
Part 1:
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK.
Laws refers to the regulations that are established by authorities and applicable to its
citizens. It can also be defined as the system of rules which are created and enforced by
legislators or social institutions over certain territory.
The legal system of UK is a constitutional monarchy. United Kingdom of Great Britain
comprise of four countries each of which are governed by its own court system. It joined
European Economic Community in 1973, after which it has required the need to incorporate
legislation into UK. This has also recognised the jurisdiction of European Court on the matters
of EU law. Several constitutional reforms were made since the Labour government came into
rule in 19977 due to which separate Welsh and Scottish were established. With the formation Of
new legislators the UK parliament was often know as 'Westminster' which deals with different
sections. UK also hold the powers as signatory authority in Human Rights Act 1998 which
allows the application of the convention directly in courts (Patra, 2020). The country has no
written constitution and the legislature is a bicameral Parliament. The constitutional legislations
of UK consists of statute and case laws, whereas judicial president are applied by judges in
interpretation of statute laws. The constitutional conventions have binning force although they do
not hold statutory authority.