Business Law Assignment: UK Law, Commercial Impact, and Contracts

This business law assignment addresses key aspects of the UK legal system and its impact on commercial organizations. The assignment begins by defining law and its role in maintaining peace and harmony within a country, differentiating between criminal and civil law in the UK context. It then outlines the three distinct legal systems in the UK: England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, and discusses the sources of UK law, categorizing them into primary and secondary sources, including case laws, legislation, law journals, and textbooks. Furthermore, the assignment highlights the impact of multilingualism in the legal process and the role it plays in resolving disputes, particularly in the European Parliament. Finally, the assignment provides insights into the UK law-making process, specifically focusing on contract law and its essential elements, such as offer, acceptance, legal intention, and consideration. The assignment emphasizes how contract law impacts commercial organizations, using the Carlil v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company case as an example.

BUSINESS LAW

Answer to the question no. 1(ii)
)The law it can be defined as the rule and regulations that the government of the country imposes
on the citizens to ensure the peace and harmony among the country (Contero Urgal, 2019) All
theses laws are bound to be abide by the citizens of the country and they are required to follow to
the act that is made by the authorities. The of nation can be changes according to the need of the
society. It helps the strict the irregular or conduct of the individuals. The law of the United
Kingdom is also refers to as the common law or English law.
There are two types of the English law- criminal and civil law
Criminal law- it is the law that restrict the illegal act or conduct of the people and state
the punishment who are indulge in illegal activities that is forbidden by the law. This act
govern the society as large. Under this act those who indulge into the illegal activities are
punish by the imprisonment ,fine, or by both which ever court may thinks fit. In order to
prove the guilty of the accused court require to take considerations of twp factored which
is mens rea and the actus rea.
Civil law- It can be defined as a branch of law that covers the disputes between the two or more
individuals. This does not comprises of any criminal activity, it only talks about the civil
wrong that has been take place between the parties. One is the plaintiff and other is the
defendant. Plaintiff is the person who is the aggrieved party in the case and against whom
the civil wrong has committed by the defendant (Goto, 2018). Defendant is the person who
has committed the wrong which caused harm to the plaintiff in one or the other manner. The
remedies provided under the civil law are compensation, injunction, etc. by the court. It
covers acts like, negligence, vicarious liability, trespass,etc. For example- if a person suffers
any injury by the rash or negligent driving of the other person. Then the former is entitled
for the compensation for the loss (if any) or the harm done by the defendant.
Answer to the question no. 1(iii)
In United Kingdom, there are three different types of legal system exists, they are0 England and
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They contains their own lawyers, judges, court structures.
The laws of one particular jurisdiction could be applied to the other jurisdiction that is the court
situated in the other region similarly or equally. The courts of the different jurisdictions, can

decide the matters of the other jurisdiction but the final call would be of the Supreme court of the
United Kingdom.
2- UK source law
Answer-
The law source can be divided in to 2 variants which are primary and secondary sources. Primary
sources can be further divided in to case laws and legislation whereas secondary sources is
divided in law journals, text books,treaties and many more (Munawar and Saputra, 2021).
Primary law source are the ones which are derived by official bodies which includes the court
observations ,legal statements,legal writing,documents of government and many more.
Secondary law source are referred to as the second hand resource's aiding in
analysing ,describing, and examining the law consisting of encyclopedias,treatise,amendments
and law alteration and many more.
Answer to the question no. 2(ii)
Characteristics of law source-
Primary sources-
 Case laws – It refers to the cases or matters which are already decided by courts and for
solving the cases which are similar as previous one can be applied to decide the current
case known as the statements. The statements sources laws are law reports ,weekly
reports of law ,all England law,specialist and many more.
 Legislations- It is the main law source of primary source. It means the law made by the
parliament of United Kingdom. UK doesn't have any written constitution as it is known
ass uncodified or partly made legislations. Laws which are made by parliament are
applied in the whole nation. Parliament can make or dissolve if they find it unfit.
Legislations are formed by introduction of bill in parliament which requires consent and
voting of members available there. It can be divided in two parts primary and secondary
legislation. Primary is the one which is sanctioned by parliament whereas the second one
is by transferring of law to other authority for making law (Rahman and Thelen, 2019)..
Secondary sources-
 Law journals- There is wide scope of journals which some of them involves laws in
particular field and other containing general laws. The idea is publish by legal

practitioners and several scholars in journals that is undertaken into considering by courts
while deciding of matter which involves case commentaries.
 Text books- This source involves text boob that is written by different authors such as
academics. Law scholars, lawyers. This involves examples of several criminal law by
smith and hogan.
Answer to question 2 (iii)
The use of different languages refers to multilingual which involves particular
characteristics that helps in settlement of disputes between the individual of two different
communities or cultures who is speaking different languages. In the parliament of Europe, the of
all the official languages of the different states are allowed and the official documents are also
drafted in all the authorized languages of the various states. This also helps in interpretation of
laws and judgements which is delivered by court. The idea of diversification is supported along
with makes structure of union fair and transparent (Reich, 2020). The legislation named as
Multilingualism Legislative act of union that is covering population of 447 million of 27
countries which involves different languages. To evaluate the quality of legislative in document
is responsibility and work of linguists or lawyers of parliament. The team of 75 members is hold
which renders duties related to advising, drafting the texts, publishing the legislative documents
which are received in various languages, technical preparations, required modifications or
alterations, finalizing the legislative statute along with the lawyers linguist council.
3.0 Give examples of how the UK law making process have a direct impact on
commercial organizations
Answer to the question no.3 (i)
Contract law-
Contract can be defined as a form of agreement which is made for two or more parties or
individuals for maintaining a specific code of conduct which will be written in the these
agreements. An agreement will be treated as a contract when it is enforceable by law. For
making a valid contract, various conditions are to be fulfilled such as offer, acceptance, legal
intention and lawful consideration. It binds the parties of the contract with the terms and

conditions mentioned in the contract. The parties to the contract have to fulfil their obligations in
order to make it legal. The essential elements of the contract are-
Offer- It shows the offer made by one party to another. The offer is required to be made by the
parties competent to contract.
Acceptance- When one party accepts the offer made by another party , then it is treated as a
valid acceptance.
Legal intention- The parties of the contract must show legal intention of making the agreement
with each other (Wasastjerna, 2019).
Consideration- It can be described as a value which is given for performance of the contract. If
the consideration is not valid, then the agreement will not be called as legal contract.
Contract possesses obligation on both the parties to perform their part of the contract without any
excuse. This helps in negating the risk of non performance of contract. In the case of Carlil v.
Carbolic Smoke Ball Company, the court held that the acceptance of the general offer is not
important, instead performing according to the terms of the contract is necessary.

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