UK Legal System: Classification of Law, Sources of Law, and Law Making Process

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Part 1: Classifications of law ..........................................................................................................3
What is law and discuss the legal systems in UK:......................................................................3
Elaborate the civil law and the criminal law in the English legal system with their examples:. 4
The role of courts in the English Legal System:.........................................................................4
Part:2 Sources of law.......................................................................................................................5
Case law as a source of law:.......................................................................................................5
Formation of the legislation:.......................................................................................................6
Explanation of Delegated Legislation with some examples:......................................................6
Part:3 UK law making process........................................................................................................7
Employment law:........................................................................................................................7
Wrongful Dismissal and Unfair Dismissal Actions :............................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The word law denotes the rules and regulations established by the authorities of the
country which is applicable on all the citizens and its non compliance may result into damages
which is recovered by the remedy. Different country works on different legal framework such as
India follows democracy, United Kingdom follows constitutional monarchy. Its legal framework
which is parliamentary monarchy says that it is a system where the monarchs are the head of the
county and exercises their authority while considering constitution. The basis of the legal
structure of the United Kingdom is Common law system which itself states that the law of the
country is equal for everyone. In context to the United Kingdom's law system(Douglas, H. and
Fitzgerald, R., 2018). this report will elaborate some of the topics such as definition of law,
identifying the legal system of UK, Classification of laws and courts in the English law system
and the role of the courts will also be discussed. Furthermore, the sources of law, the process of
making legislation and the meaning of delegated legislation will also be discussed in this report.
At the end this report will also discuss the impact of the UK law making on the commercial
organisation by focusing on the Employment law.
MAIN BODY
Part 1: Classifications of law
What is law and discuss the legal systems in UK:
Law is a framework of rules which is created and enforced by the social or government
institutions which keeps a check on the behaviour of every element of the society. The rules
ensures the discipline in the country by observing the conducts, customs, practices of the people
of the community, their behaviour and their compliance to the listed laws. The United Kingdom's
law structure is partly written and wholly uncodified. The basis of the UK law system is
common law which is built up on the basis of two types of sources and they are primary source
and secondary source The primary source consists of the acts of parliament and the judicial
precedents, the secondary source is the background source which is built up on the basis of
debates, law journals, legal encyclopedia, textbooks etc.
United Kingdom is the constitutional monarchy system where the supreme authority is the
Monarch. UK legal system is diversified into three legal system which are England and Wales,