Business Law Report: K Meal Delivery Legal Compliance

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................. 2
LO1.................................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
This assignment takes into account the scenario of K to deliver meals to home and was
established by Jay and Alex in 2016. The revenue for K comes from commission fee from
restaurant and charge fee per order to customers. After the success of the business, it was
planned to expand its operation to other major cities. Problems arose when K received
complains from people and letters from lawyers. Due to a technical difficulty, the customers of
K faced issued regarding non-delivery of food and receiving cold food. This assignment is
focused on understanding the application of UK business on the operations plus activities of K.
it includes a clear explanation on the legal system’s nature along with different law sources. It
also describes the role played by the government in making law as well as applying statutory
and common law in courts.
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LO1
Introduction
A report is drafted for the operations staff at K to provide the information and knowledge
related to the English Legal system. It also addresses the making of legislation and the effect of
any proposed legislation on their business operations.
ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
English legal system centres the Doctrine of precedent that means let the decision Stand. Its
hierarchical structure binds the lower court by the decision made by its higher courts. The
House of Lords is the Supreme Court that tops the hierarchy. The Court of Appeal, with two
divisions that are criminal and civil, comes beneath the Supreme Court. The decision made by
these courts bounds lower courts (Cownie et al., 2013). The decision of the Supreme Court and
Court of Appeal binds the three division of the high court. The standards of Supreme courts
bind crown courts. Magistrate courts and county courts do not bind by the mentioned courts
but are bind by its own decision.
Figure 1 ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
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Source: Cownie et al., 2013
SOURCES OF LAW
The organization K is bound by 4 crucial sources of law that are given below:
European Union Law: the UK law is preceded by European laws as the UK is a member of the
European Union (Robertson, 2012).
The European Convention on Human Rights: the UK is made a participant in the European
Convention on Human rights as it is a member of Europe Council (Robertson, 2012).
Common Law: senior appellate takes the decision that becomes the part of the law as common
law and is included in England's legal system (Wilson et al., 2018).
Legislation: the acts of parliament are the most important part of legislation that is created by
legislatures. The UK parliament is the base of the principal legislature which is located in
London and it is the only authority that passes the law for application in all four countries.
WORKFORCES IN ENGLISH LEGAL SYSTEM
Judiciary is the basis for operating legal system. Approximately 30,000 individual forms the
group of judges that is Lay magistrates who are an ordinary citizen with no legal training or
expertise. Their decision reflects a certain extent of community values and is titled a Justice of
peace (Mishchenko, 2010). Approximately 100 stipendiary magistrates are professional lawyers
that act as full-time lawyers and are a barrister or court clerks.
Solicitors undertake the majority of work in county courts and magistrate courts for preparing
and advocating the case. They possess graduation degree and undergo training of one-year
legal practice Course and are also involved in commercial work concerning the business.
Barristers are law graduate with training through Bar Vocational Course and mostly works in
the crown court and seldom advocate in magistrate courts (Mishchenko, 2010). Legal
executives are employed by solicitors, who have the qualification of professional and is
specialised in the area of law.
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN LAWMAKING
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The UK government instructs the civil layers to make draft laws or a bill that is introduced in
either the House of Common or House of Lords. The bill passes through different stages in
order to become an act of parliament (Wilson et al., 2018). The bill that contains the details of
the proposed bill is introduced in either of the Houses in the first stage. The member of the
Houses debates and argue on the purposes as well as key areas of the bill in the second stage.
The proposed bill is comprehensively scrutinised for making any amendments by voting in the
committee stage. Further scrutiny of the text of the proposed bill is done for clarity including
other required changes by voting in the reporting stage. The government is responsible for
scrutinising the requirement for change in the proposed draft law or bill (Wilson et al., 2018).
Each house considers final amendments during the tidying-up stage. At last, when both the
Houses agree on the proposed bill, the Queen approves the Bill to become the act of
parliament.
Applying common laws in justice court
The effect of common laws is beneath the judges of justice court due to consistent reforming
and amendment in common law. The cases are legally documented by courts for making a
judgement (Cownie et al., 2013). Common law refers to case law having a common structure
over the complete jurisdiction. The EU laws assist this law to resolve any case or condition. The
legal primacy is decided by the appeal of the criminal division and both House of Lords.
Applying statutory law in justice court
The administrative laws differ from common law due to decisions of the courts. Certain bodies
frame statutory law in written format. In this law, some part of the UK Frame private and public
acts (Wilson et al., 2018). Approval from both the Houses is required for statutory instruments
such as a bill, draft law, orders, rules as well as legislation to be approved as laws. The
amendment and reforms in the statutory law are included in the Halsbury statutes.
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Thus this is the above information required to be recognized by operations staff of K. this will
help them in resolving any legal issues that might arise while operating their business in the UK.
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REFERENCES
1. Cownie, F., Bradney, A. and Burton, M., 2013. English Legal System in Context 6e. Oxford
University Press.
2. Mishchenko, V., 2010. Terminology translation in teaching legal English.
3. Robertson, C., 2012. EU Legal English: Common Law, Civil Law, or a New Genre?.
European Review of Private Law, 20(5), pp.1215-1239.
4. Wilson, S., Rutherford, H., Storey, T. and Wortley, N., 2018. English Legal System. Oxford
University Press.
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