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Essentials of Business Law is well regarded for its clear yet succinct exposition of core principles and key cases across the essential legal topics relevant to business students. This new edition has been significantly updated and deals fully and comprehensively with the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

Essentials of Business Law

• Title Page


• Copyright Page


• Brief contents


• Contents


• Preface


• Table of cases


• Table of statutes


• Table of statutory instruments


• Table of European legislation


• Study skills


• Get organised from the start


• Take advantage of what your lecturer tells you


• After the lecture/tutorial


• Answering questions


• Using cases and statutes


• 1 The legal system


• Introduction


• Sources of law


• Legislation


• Rules of statutory interpretation


• Judicial precedent


• The hierarchy of the courts


• The binding part of a case


• European Union law


• The institutions of the EU


• Sources of EU law


• Supremacy of EU law


• The Human Rights Act 1998


• Civil law and criminal law


• Common law and equity


• Features of the English legal system


• Antiquity and continuity


• The adversarial system of trial


• Absence of a legal code


• The law-making role of the judges


• Importance of procedure


• Absence of Roman law


• Other features


• The legal profession


• The Legal Services Act 2007


• The judiciary


• Judicial review


• Juries


• Essential points


• Practice questions


• Task 1


• 2 Making a contract


• Definition of a contract


• Offer


• Invitation to treat


• Offer of a unilateral contract


• Goods in shops


• Acceptance


• The postal rule


• Acceptance of the offer of a unilateral contract


• Counter offer


• Auct