Legal Aspect of Business - PDF
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Legal Aspect of Business
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1ASSESSMENT TASK....................................................................................................................11 Civil and criminal liability under UK law for accidents and determination of liability ofAndrew........................................................................................................................................12. Explaining the basic legal principals related to contract and terms for various businessactivities......................................................................................................................................43. Explaining the legal models for conducting a business and activities along with theiradvantages and disadvantages.....................................................................................................64. Explaining the legal procedure airing in the context of business issues over employmentstatus............................................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
INTRODUCTIONA business organisation needs to comply with a range of legal aspects, rules, legislationsand regulations while performing its business activities. UK government has developed a rangeof business laws for the purpose of monitoring and controlling various business activities whithinthe country. The present assignment includes solutions of various legal business disputes on thebasis of numerous rules and laws applicable on them. majorly the legal solutions of the problemsare being provided on the basis of civil laws, criminal laws, contract laws of the country. Inaddition, for the purpose of providing the effective legal solution of the business problems,employment law of the country is also taken into consideration.ASSESSMENT TASK1 Civil and criminal liability under UK law for accidents and determination of liability ofAndrewFacts about the case: Andrew was driving a car and met with a sudden accident with a pedestrian, Bianca. hegot serious injury due to accident and had to take leave from work. Issues:The issue in the present case scenario is to determine legal liability of Andrew towardsBianca and to provide details about all the possible outcomes for Andrew on the basis of civiland criminal laws of the country. Rules:Road traffic act 1988: Government of UK has formed road traffic Act 1988. As per this act,person driving on the road needs to be careful while driving and must be ensure about notharming any person present on the road (Cartwright, Roach and Armitage, 2019). Further, itstates that if a person injures any another person due to negligence, he would be able tocompensate all the damages and loss suffered by another party. Civil laws: Civil laws refers to the laws that provides relief at the time of suffering from any injuryor damage due to wrong activity or offence of another person. Civil law also helps the1
government by providing legal rights and remedies for person that have been injured due to actof another party. Civil law contains the following legal aspects:Duty of care: As per this aspect of civil law, each person of the country have duty not toharm any another person and care about each person as well. In the present case scenario,Andrew have a duty to care about each present on the road and not to harm any of themwhile driving the car.Negligence: negligence refers to a situation, when an individual fails to fulfil his dutyprovided by any of the the legal system of UK. The act of negligence may amount toattract legal liability of the person towards another person who has suffered any loss orinjury due to negligence (Matthews and et.al., 2018). In the present case scenario, due tonegligence of Andrew, Bianca had suffered physical injury and damage.Breach of duty: Breach of duty refers to performing any of the activity havingoverriding effect over the duty provided by the government through its legal system.Breach of duty results in attracting legal penalties and liability of the person who hasbreached the duty against the person who has affected due to the activity. Compensation in civil law: Compensation refers to the award provided to the personwho have suffered with the injury or damages due to negligence or breach of duty of anyother person including any organisation, individual or any other corporation (WHAT ISA CIVIL CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION?. 2019). In the presnt case scenario, Biancamay get compensation from Andrew due to damage and injury suffered by him causeddue to the accident.Criminal law:In UK, criminal laws deals have been formed to deal with the offensive activityperformed by any person of the country due to that has been resulted in providing loss or damageto a whole community or the society rather than any single individual (Watson, 2018). In thepresent case scenario, as due to negligence of Andrew at the time of driving car, only Bianca hassuffered loss and injury from the accident. In this order, the criminal law will not be applicableon the present given case.Difference between civil law and criminal law:2
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