Role of Law in Business Operations: Unilever PLC

Carters LLP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
Describe different sources of law and the role of government in law-making and how
statutory and common law is applied in the justice courts.....................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Discuss the impact of contract, company and employment law on the business of Unilever plc
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TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
Discuss how different businesses are formed legally.............................................................6
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................7
Explain how the above businesses are managed and funded.................................................7
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................8
Provide specific examples of different business situations with different legal solutions.....8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
References:.....................................................................................................................................11
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Law is a very vital component for the business to regulate the business operations in an
country. Each business is a bite with the numerous laws and practices to operate the business
activities in legal manner. Any business is mandatory to comply with the state and the federal
government laws and if not then that can lead to the serious consequences for the business such
as penalties, lawsuits or even the imprisonment (Partington, 2018). Each country has a different
legal system that comprises of the numerous amounts of laws and practices. The United
Kingdom has three separate legal system on the basis of their geographical areas among which
the common legal system is of England and Wales. The present report is on "Unilever PLC” a
Public limited company that is headquartered in London, England is a multinational consumer
goods company. The Company also follows the legal structure and the legal system of England
and Wales to operate its business ethically in UK. The following report covers the various
sources of laws, role of government in law making, impact of Contract, Company and
employment law on the business of Unilever PLC and how the different forms of businesses are
legally structured managed and funded. Moreover in report three different kinds of business
disputes are discussed with their legal solutions.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Describe different sources of law and the role of government in law-making and how statutory
and common law is applied in the justice courts
Laws are the basic set of rules and regulations that are developed and enforced by a country with
its government bodies. Laws are introduced to protect the rights of the civilians of the society
and to maintain the peace among the individual (Coffrin and et. al., 2018). The different kinds of
law in UK such as civil law, common law, criminal law, statutory law, religious law and mixed
law that design a whole legal system of the country. The sources of law are categorised into two
parts that are mentioned below:
Primary sources of UK law
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 Legislation (Act of Parliaments, statutory instruments, orders in council):
Legislations is defined as the declaration of legal rules by an authority. Role of
Parliamentary legislature is to frame new laws for instance, Act of parliament, or amend
the old ones. In UK, legislature may also delegate the power of law making to lower
bodies which are Orders in council, Bye Laws and Statutory Instruments.
Case Laws (decision of the higher courts to be abide and followed and lower courts): These
sources are “Judge-made laws” where judgements in a particular cases are recorded given by
Judge and subsequently act as a source of law when same issue or case arises. Judicial precedent
act as a guide when there is no legislature and decisions are made through the ability of judges to
make a difference between right or wrong (Thirlway, 2019).
Secondary sources of laws:
 Common Law and Equity: Equities are special source of law to England as this is
the case law developed by the Court of Chancery whose application is voluntary and
prevails over common law. Common laws were traditionally administered in the
King’s court and equity was developed as discretionary remedy with the aim of
ameliorating the injustice made by rulers of common law. Some example of equities
are Charities, trusts, probate and equitable remedies.
 Parliamentary conventions: They are commonly found in English Law system, breach
of these rules are regarded as breach of law, although they are not the strict rules of law
to abide. Generally Parliamentary govern the relations between the monarch and
parliament; and between Britain and its citizens.
Role of Government in forming these aforementioned laws
British Government plays a significant role in forming and implementing these laws and
policies so as to regulate the nation or to govern the people of a community. It acts as a guideline
for what is accepted in a society and absence of which will lead to the fight and quarrels among
people. These are the set norms which need to be followed by every citizen for right conduct of
behaviour and acceptance in a society. Government plays a pivotal role on deciding how and
what law should be made for managing the thing in effective and way running a nation with ease
and control (Tekula and Andersen, 2019). However without the consent of Parliament no law can
be formed and implement by a government. Parliament is a legislative body whose members
have been elected by the people for their interest and the prime objective of Parliament is to
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