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1 TASK 24 Providing solution for the problem arisen in business of K 4 TASK 35 Critical evaluation of different types of business organisation 5 TASK 48 Various alternatives to resolve the legal dispute 8 CONCLUSION 9 REFERENCES 10 INTRODUCTION Business law in UK legal system is the combination of all the civil laws, contract laws and other commercial laws that have impact over the normal business performance of an organisation. Criminal laws: Criminal laws refers to Criminal law act 1967 which contains various rules and regulations of

Business Law in UK Legal System

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Explaining the overall English legal system...............................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
Providing solution for the problem arisen in business of K........................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Critical evaluation of different types of business organisation...................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8
Various alternatives to resolve the legal dispute.........................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Business law in UK legal system is the combination of all the civil laws, contract laws
and other commercial laws that have impact over the normal business performance of an
organisation. Each business operating their business in UK gets affected by the business laws of
the country. The present study includes a brief description about the whole English legal system
can its numerous sources of law. It also shows a complete procedure of making law in the
parliament. Further, the study provides Legal solution of a some business problems along with
defining various alternatives available as to resolve any dispute.
TASK 1
Explaining the overall English legal system.
English legal system:
The legal system of UK is also termed as the English legal system. It is a combination of
all the criminal and civil laws (Nyoni and Hart, 2018). It provides various rules and regulations
regarding numerous civil and criminal issue that need to be followed by each individual,
corporations and other persons of the UK. The whole English legal system can be easily
understand by a brief analysis of criminal and civil laws of the country.
Criminal laws:
Criminal laws refers to Criminal law act 1967 which contains various rules and
regulations of the country that concerns with preventing the each person of the country from
suffering any criminal offence (Criminal law, 2018). This act concerns with making rules that
can help the individuals from some serious issues of the society like murders, robbery etc.
Further, it also contains the common laws that can help the judicial authorities in
providing appropriate solution for the criminal issues. It contains numerous cases like, murder
case, rape case, issues regarding robberies, etc.
In addition, criminal laws deals with the offence made against any individual, any
company or against whole society. Further, in these types of issues, the court provides various
penalties and punishments or imprisonment to the defaulter. In general, Federal state
government solves the criminal cases. They decide the legal proceeding to be charged over the
person who has made the offence.
Civil laws:
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Civil laws provides the rules that helps the government in providing protection to each
person of the country from any wrong behaviour of another person including individual,
corporation or any other private or public party.
Breach of contract, loss due to negligence of another party, defamation, etc. are some
major examples of the civil wrongs (Cartwright, 2016). Further, issues of the civil cases are
termed as the injury rather than offence and judicial authorities provides penalties to the
defaulter party as per the preponderance of evidence i.e. analysis of the evidence. Further, it
always provides monitory awards to the plaintiff.
In this regard, the whole English legal system works in UK for the purpose of providing
safeguard to each person and eliminating various serious criminal and civil issues from the
country.
Sources of law:
In UK, the laws are being framed by using various sources. Sources of laws can be
defines as the guidelines and other rules that are needed to be taken into account while
developing any new law in the country. Some major sources of laws are as under:
Common laws: Common laws are the judgements provided by the higher judicial
authorities. These are applicable over the lower judicial authorities only (Zander, 2015).
They need to provide their justice by taking into account all the common laws made on
the specific issue. In this regard, the common laws are the source of law in UK.
Act of parliament: Rules made under the act of parliament are termed as the statutes of
the country. These are the main source of law in UK. Statutes are the original legislations
of the country. Further, due to creation through acxt of parliament, they can not be
avoided while making any law for the country. Therefore, they are termed as a key source
of law in the UK.
Customs: Customs refers to a set of rule of a specific locality. Due to compliance of
these rules from ancient period, they become the basis of making law (Kirton and Greene,
2017). Rule related to family rioght, social rights, etc. are generally framed on the basis
of the customs of the country.
In this regard, it can be evaluated that the there are various sources on the basis of which
the laws are framed in the UK.
Parliament
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