Understanding UK Legal System and Employment 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
The business corporations of the United Kingdom is governed by the
Companies Act 2006 which provides various concepts pertaining to businesses
incorporated and functioning in the United Kingdom. Business law includes many
other legislation and statutes such as, Employment law, Contract law, Company law,
laws on partnership, sales law, anti-trust law, Property law and many more that
especially enacted for regulating business conducts and activities. The formation of
any new company or a business whether small or large is regularized by the
provisions of business laws. These laws are essential as they keep businesses to
run in a certain manner established by law (Kelly 2018). Business laws does not limit
to the formation of a company rather they cover all the facets and faculties
associated with business. The legal system of United Kingdom is wide and broad,
the process of enacting laws in UK is determined by the force of parliament which is
the supreme legal authority. The judiciary on the other side plays important role in
development of UK legal system as well by way of its landmark rulings and
interpretations (Pezdek and Reisberg 2022). In this report, all the essential and
relevant extract of legal UK legal system including civil and criminal subjects and the
role of superior courts will be explained in part one. Whereas, in part two sources of
law, law making process and concept of delegated legislation shall be discussed. In
last part, certain provisions of Employment law like statutory duties of employer
towards their employees and definition and comparison between wrongful dismissal
and unfair dismissal will be examined.
Part 1: Classifications of Law
Define laws and identify the respective legal systems in the UK
Laws are the medium for regulating civilization. They are a reasonable set of
commands that are designed to regulate and control anti social behavior and
conducts of human. Laws can be rights or freedoms which are politically derived that
collectively decides the rules for the society with the view to prevail peace and order.
Laws are common to all as they apply to all the individual equally by virtue of having
an elevated status which makes them supreme. There is no universal definition on
law, but many imminent jurists and thinkers have given definitions on law like,
Holland, Dicey, Austin, Jeremy Bentham and many more.
The legal system of UK follows a common law system which is a combination of
legislation and judicial rulings in the form of precedents or case law. Although, the
United Kingdom recognized itself as a constitutional monarchy, wherein the head of
the state is not a president but a monarch. The role of the Monarch is to remain
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