Business Law: Classifications, Sources, and Employment Law in UK

This report provides a comprehensive overview of UK business law, encompassing the classification of laws, including civil and criminal law, and the roles of the High Court and Supreme Court within the English legal system. It delves into the sources of law, with detailed explanations of case law and the process of making legislation, including delegated legislation. The report further examines the UK law-making process, specifically focusing on employment law. It outlines the statutory duties of employers to their employees, and differentiates between wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal actions, providing a clear understanding of the legal framework governing employment relationships. This report aims to provide a clear understanding of the legal landscape within the UK and how the legal systems work in practice.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................1
PART 1: CLASSIFICATIONS OF LAW.......................................................................................1
Defining laws and recognizing the respective legal systems in the UK.....................................1
Classification of laws in the English Legal system.....................................................................1
Explanation of the role of the following Courts in the English Legal system............................2
PART 2: SOURCE OF LAW..........................................................................................................2
Providing explanation of case law as source of laws..................................................................2
Explanation of the process of making Legislation......................................................................3
Providing meaning and examples of Delegated Legislation......................................................3
PART 3: UK LAW MAKING PROCESS: EMPLOYMENT LAW..............................................4
Statutory Duties of Employers to their employees.....................................................................4
Providing wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal actions........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Law is basically the formulated rules and regulations which are required to be followed
by the people of that nation in turn accomplishing the objective of having ethical conducting can
become possible. In the current era, having effective development of the laws is important in
turn attaining proper objective of reliable processing in country can become possible. The
current study will provide the information regarding the respective legal systems in UK,
classification and role of courts of laws in English legal system. The present study will pay
attention on having source of laws by explaining case law, process of making legislation and
examples of delegated. The recent investigation will emphasize on having the information
regarding the law making process in turn depth insights about the particular subject matter can
be derived.
PART 1: CLASSIFICATIONS OF LAW
Defining laws and recognizing the respective legal systems in the UK
Law is basically defined as the rules & regulations which are usually formulated and
enforced by court & regulating government of particular state (Lakhe and Kulkarni, 2020). It
helps to possess the significant level of processing in turn attaining the proper form of the
functioning in order to get effective processing can become possible. There are three respective
legal systems in UK which involves England, & Wales, Scotland and Ireland. These are the
crucial legal systems which helps in gaining the competitive edge to UK in respect to manage.
England & wales is common law system which is basically based on combining the pass of
legislation and creation of precedents through case laws. It is based on the pirnciple of common
law which helps in attaining proper insights to get the proper ability to function the legal system.
Scotland legal system is considered to be hybrid that usually pay attention on having thee
effectual processing by h containing civil and common law elements. In addition to this,
Northern Ireland legal system of UK is related with having tow sides that possesses civil &
criminal side that has its won specialized courts.
Classification of laws in the English Legal system
These are basically divided into the two parts which are as follows:
Civil law:
It aims to deal with the disputes between the organizations or individuals. Civil law pay
attention in involving the compensation or judgment which tend to be relating to finances (Salhi
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and et.al., 2019). It is considered to be had effective kind of the parts in which the particular law
deals that includes the issues regarding contracts, property, family relations and civil wrongs
causing the injury, etc. on the basis of this it can be specified that it helps in gaining the reliable
ability to deal with such kind of issues in turn significant processing in country can be done.
Criminal laws:
it can be interpreted that it is associated with the cases of crimes that are tended
and perceived to be harmful, threading and endangering to property. It pays attention on giving
justice to clients who are indulged into such cases. This boy defines the criminal offense in turn
proper charging and trial of suspected person is charged in tun attaining the effective level of
functioning in industry can become possible.
Explanation of the role of the following Courts in the English Legal system
a) High court
There are distinct types of the roles which are played by high court in English legal
system that helps in gaining the corrective form of the practice in turn attaining reliable level of
performance can be derived (Sanders, Marx and Stenkula, 2020). This involves having serious
criminals cases, important civil activities and assist to provide the justice to hear appeals against
the decisions made by the other courts. There are basically five functions of the high court which
includes having ability to overcome the disputes regarding business property trust, competition
claims, intellectual property issues, validity of will, etc.
b)Supreme Court:
It is considered to be the final court in UK for all form of the cases like civil and
criminal that are originating in Ireland, Northern and England & wales. This help in hearing the
cases of the greatest public which can influence the whole population. The main role which is
played by the particular court is having the significant hearing of arguable points of laws h of
public importance in turn maintaining & developing of effective functioning of the court ca
become possible.
PART 2: SOURCE OF LAW
Providing explanation of case law as source of laws
This is related with having the bulk of laws in UK which acts as source of law through
participating as the mechanism of the doctrine of precedents. It is associated with having the
appropriate form of sense of appellate courts deciding point of law. This is decided by judges
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that tend to focus on having effective level of functioning of the prevailing cases in turn
significant pattern of growth & development can be derived. On the basis of this it can be
articulated that there are distinct types of the factors which are taken into the consideration for
the purpose of offering the effective results in form of judgments. It is used interchangeably with
common laws. It is helpful in collection of precedents & authority set by previous juridical
decisions on particular topic. This is concerned with having the law which are been established
by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases. The reason behind this is to have precise
decisions which are crucial for maintaining the elements of predictability in juridical
relationship. This provides assistance in receiving the competitive edge which can help in
receiving proper ability to coordinate with prevailing requirements so that effective level of
processing to have better functioning in precise & accurate manner can be achieved.
Explanation of the process of making Legislation
There are distinct types of the steps which are taken into the consideration for the purpose of
making legislation which are followed systematically in turn attaining reliable aim & objective
of imposing can be fulfilled (Sanseverino, 2021). This comprises drafting of bills, introducing it,
going to committee, submitting reviews regarding this, voting by the full chamber and bill goes
to the president. On the basis of these steps it can be articulated that thee are distinct form of
legislation in UK are formulated in turn attaining the objective of effective practicing can
become possible.
With help of the given steps, the legislation in UK is formulated in order to serve the
justice to the people who are facing the issues (Branston, Arnott and Gallagher, 2021). There
are types of the legislation which comprises bills, joint & concurrent resolutions and simple. It
helps in deriving the ability to meet the objectives in turn attaining the significant level of
processing to have effective level of functioning which can allow to meet the objective of
effective processing by gaining consultation from all chambers for this purpose these mentioned
set of steps are taken into the procedure so that reliable & relevant pattern of growth &
development can be achieved. It allows the parliament to pas set of laws in highly precise and
effective manner.
Providing meaning and examples of Delegated Legislations
It means practicing or exercising of legislation which is basically power by agent who is
lower in rank to the specified legislature (Delegated legislation, 2022). It can be considered to
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be subordinate to the legislation that is found to be auxiliary legislation that helps in having
enactment made by an individual or body other than parliament. It is not directly made by an act
of parliament but the under of act of parliament which has limited power to make certain
regulations. There are three different types of the legislation which can be taken into the
consideration are order of councils, statutory instrument and by laws. For instance- These laws
are having the delegated standards & ordinances which is passed directly by both house of
parliaments. For example- delegated legislation is taken into the force emergency power to be
exercised by ministers.
PART 3: UK LAW MAKING PROCESS: EMPLOYMENT LAW
Statutory Duties of Employers to their employees
UK's law making procedure of employment is basically associated with making sure that
both the employers and employees are protected by offering legislation on dismissal, holiday,
pay, discrimination, etc. there are various form of roles and responsibilities which are played by
employer towards the employees in turn attaining effective processing in company can be
achieved (Employment law in the UK: how it is made, 2022). For having successful practice it
becomes crucial for the firm to emphasize on certain course of actions which can contribute in
developing accurate & suitable form of processing by setting coordination among employees. It
is important for the firm to pay attention on having such practicing which ensures higher growth
& development of employees along with organizational procedure. There are few duties of
employer towards the employees which involves offering paid leaves, paying accurately,
precisely maintaining organizational culture by involving equality and diversity through
eliminating any kind of discrimination & harassment. The one of the crucial duty of the
employer towards the employees is having effective practices which can contribute in
preventing employees from the risk of health by formulating effective working culture through
offering effective tools, etc.
Fair remuneration, giving employees growth opportunities, eliminating risks, respecting,
etc can help employees to derive the competitive edge in turn significant processing for the
growth & development can be derived. On the basis of this it can be specified that there are
various types of working actions through maintaining safe & reliable processing in turn effective
pattern of performance in company can be achieved.
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Providing wrongful dismissal and unfair dismissal actions
For having effective performance the company takes various courses of the actions in
turn attaining their desirable growth and development can be received for the prevailing
working scenarios. On the basis of the analysis it can be specified that wrongful dismissal is
related with an act where an employer terminates an employee without providing the grounds of
removal (What is wrongful dismissal? 2021). In addition to this, it can be specified that unfair
dismissal is nothing but when employer terminates the employment of on unfair grounds which
re found to be harsh, capricious and indistinct even without any reason. This is when the
employer does not have any valid ground to dismiss the employee which can influence the
working processing to dismiss thee employee. On the basis of this it can be articulated that there
is one difference is found which are considered that wrong dismissal is considered to be
contractual right whereas unfair dismissal is considered to be having the statutory right under the
employment rights act.
On the basis of the overall information it can be specified that are there are different
form of aspects which are taken into the consideration so that effective level of processing can
be derived. On the basis of the prevailing requirements of companies, employee tend to take sch
form of irrelevant actions which can influence the working criteria of subordinate in turn gaining
competitive performance can be received. Employment law is associated with possessing such
processing which can help in building the reliable pattern of growth & development by offering
appropriate course of actions.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that there are distinct types of the laws which
are basically formulated by UK in order to have effective processing can be derived. In the
current report the emphasis has been provided on having the effective information regarding the
classification of laws along with mentioning civil & criminal laws. In addition to this, the role of
high and supreme court has been involved. The present report has emphasized on having
insights regarding case laws which is crucial to offer the decisions. The steps of process of
making legislation has been taken into consideration by involving examples of delegated
legislation. Employment law is highly required to be implemented by the company in its overall
processing so that significant elimination of wrong & unfair dismissal actions can be done to
have higher effectiveness.
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