Business Law Assignment: Law Assignment

Business Law

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
P1 Sources of legislation that an enterprise need to comply.......................................................3
P2 Function of legal authority in law making.............................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
P3 Impact of legislations and regulations on business................................................................5
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................7
P4 Appropriate solution for wide range of problems being faced by organisation....................7
P5 Justification related to the legal solutions..............................................................................8
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
P6 Solution based on Country legal system................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Legislation is refers to as set of code of conduct formed by the government considering
the problems faced by people and various industries or organisation in the country. Business law
is defined as set of regulations that are developed by the legal authority for restricting the unfair
trade practices,The several objectives of these laws are to assist an enterprise in resolving
disputes, maintaining social order, stabilising of economy, preserve as well as protect and
implement community value. The effective legislation is such that which has potentials of
bringing change in order to respond the needs as well as expectation of society and business.
The report has emphasized on explaining the English legal system and recognising the
impact of legislation and regulations on organisational activities. Project will highlight some of
alternative disputes mechanism method that can be utilised by the companies for resolving
disputes.
TASK 1
P1 Sources of legislation that an enterprise need to comply
English legal system is a general legislation in the legislative system that is formed by the
government for regulating the laws of Wales and England. The English legal system mainly
consists of civil and criminal law. Every branch in the English legal system has its own courts
and procedures for handling as well as managing law suits. The structure of this legislative
system comprises common law, civil, criminal, common , civil law, legal and industrial norm as
well as regulations. This legal system has hierarchical structure in which the decision made The
characteristics of English legal system is that this system does not consist of any formal codes.
Laws in English legal system are much influenced by the regulations and norms in European
legal system. Criminal legislations are related with handling the law suits related to crime. These
are the offences which are unethical act conducted by an individual with the intention to harm
other people in the society. Civil law is formed by the government for assisting organisation in
solving industrial or commercial disputes. This types of conflicts can take place between
employee -employer, consumer- shopkeeper, supplier – retailers etc. Torts particularly that
includes defamation, breach of contract, negligence etc. are considered as civil crime. Such form
of subject matters are to be handled as well as managed by the civil courts. In English eagle
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system the decision made by the supreme courts are binding upon all the tribunal (Trad and
Kalpić,2018)
The important sources of some legislation in English legal system are:
Common Law-These legislation or regulations are developed by the judges in the court
considering the decision made in the existing law suits.
Statutory Law-These laws are generated through the act of parliament. This is a formal written
legislation of the legislative authority that regulates or govern state, city and country. The
objectives of statues is to prohibit unfair trade practices. Statues legislations are evolved from the
decisions made by appellate tribunal and with the constitutional legislations. These laws are
generally based on the written constitution of the country.
European legal system-Before the Brexit the UK was the member of European Union. So it has
to follow the rules and norms developed by EU government.
Convention of Human right- This legislation is required to be comply by the organisation. These
norms or regulation is framed by the EU legal authority. The purpose of the law is to protect and
prevent the right of employee from being exploited by employer at workplace (Guerrina and
Masselot, 2018)
Distinguish between English legal system with European Codified Model
The comparison between English legal system and European codified model can be made
on the several bases these are:
The unique characteristics of European Civil legislations is that the general or common
principles are codified. European common law are recognised as the important as well as major
source of laws in English legal system. Whereas, English legal system does not consist of formal
codes.
In European legal system is characterized by the case legislation , which is developed by
the magistrates. The case law in the European legal system is influenced by the decision made
by the magistrate in the court. On the other hand In English legal system the decision made by
the supreme court which is the higher authority is binding upon all the lowers tribunals.
European legal system the role of the judge is to act as investigator and their
responsibility is to make decision on the basis of evidence or investigations. Whereas, In English
legal system the judgement are made by the magistrate on the basis of proof or evidence
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