UK Legal System and Law Making Process: A Study of Business Law

BMP4002 Business Law
Assessment 1
Legal System for Business
Law
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Contents
Introduction 2
Part 1: Classifications of Law p-p
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK
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Explanation with examples the following as means of classification
of laws in the English Legal system p-p
a) Civil Law p
b) Criminal Law p
Explanation of the role of the following Courts in the English Legal
system p-p
a) High Court p
b) Supreme Court p
Part 2: Source of law p-p
Explanation of Case Law as a source of laws p
Explanation of the process of making Legislation p
The meaning and examples of Delegated Legislation p
Part 3: UK law making process: Employment Law p-p
Statutory Duties of Employers to their employees p
Wrongful Dismissal and Unfair Dismissal Actions
Conclusion p
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Introduction
To govern the functioning of businesses in the United Kingdom there is
company act which regulates all the functioning of all the business organization in
UK. To enforce the company act before this various statutes are already got enacted
such as; Insolvency Act, 1986, Corporate governance act of UK and also there were
Directives of European Union. From the guidelines of all these statutes the
parliament of the United Kingdom reached at that position which enables such act to
provide the legal framework to all the business organizations (Al-Haidar, 2018). The
parliament of UK played a crucial role while providing the company act, it is one of
the largest act of UK which contains 1300 sections and 16 schedules. Under these
sections and schedules various provisions are given which provides the guidelines to
regulate the functioning of business companies and to show the path of doing
business legally. This report with the template cover various topic regarding the UK
legal system, the law making process in UK, classification of laws, discussion will be
made on High Court and on Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. There are
various sources of UK laws such as legislation which covers the parliament and the
monarchical structure of UK. In the end of report the employer- employee relation will
be discuss in the light of an Employment Act.
Part 1: Classifications of Law
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK
Laws are the set of rules and regulations which control the behavior of the
human beings. There are so many laws which were enacted to bring peace in the
world, and to make the laws it require the sufficient legal system which make the
laws and also enforce it according to the situation. UK have the parliamentary form
of governance and the powers are delegated in three main authorities i.e.
Legislation, Executive and the Judiciary. The parliament of UK have two houses
which are responsible to pass the bill and send it to the Monarch. There is no written
constitution of the United Kingdom not even the single document was written and
also it is in mixed form which contains the style of democratic, aristocracy and
monarchical values. The process of making the constitution was started from very
last and in the starting the charter of Magna Carta was introduced then, the Bills of
Rights, 1689 and with lot of efforts there was an enactment of the European Union
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