Classification and Source of Law in UK: A Focus on Contract Law

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART 1: Classification of Law........................................................................................................3
Defining laws and respective legal system in UK.......................................................................3
Explaining with examples civil and criminal law........................................................................3
Role of the courts in the English Legal system............................................................................4
PART 2: Source of law....................................................................................................................4
Explaining case law as source of law..........................................................................................4
Explaining process of making Legislation...................................................................................4
Meaning and examples of Delegated Legislation........................................................................5
PART 3: UK law making process ...................................................................................................5
1. Contract law.............................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business laws are the body of rules that are made by the parliament of the country. This
report will outline the classification of law in the part one. In the another part it will discuss the
source of law. In the last part the report will outline the UK process of making the laws which
will be based on the contract law.
PART 1: Classification of Law
Defining laws and respective legal system in UK
The laws are the rules which are made by the government which states that how the
people in the country behave in the businesses or in the society. If the people do not follow and
obey the laws they will be given punishments (Kooshshkar and Ghasemi Ahde, 2019). These are
basically the rues or the body of rules that are made by the legislature.
The UK has the four legal systems, each system used to derive from its particular location
and having the variety of reasons. The country has English Laws, Scot Laws, Northern Ireland
Laws and purely Welsh Law. English and Wales law are the common law system which used to
combine the legislation and have the creation of the precedents by having case laws.
Explaining with examples civil and criminal law
a) Civil Law: Civil law is the legal system that is originated in the mainland Europe and
now it is adopted in much of the globe. This law is basically the part of the set laws of the
country which are concerned with the private affairs of the people. This law helps the country to
settle the disputes among the citizens of the country. For example, defamation cases, breach of
contract, injury or death, contract related to property, etc.
Criminal law: Criminal law used to set the definition of the criminal things and offences
done by the people and it also defines the rules and procedures that helps the police in order to
investigate the case (Partington, 2021). This law fixes the plenaries and the different mode of
treatment in order to protect the accused person. For example, criminal damage done by the
person, sexual assault, murder, fraud, drug dealing, etc.