Beginning Business Law
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Chapter 2
There are a number of useful websites which you should refer to:
- HM Courts and Tribunals Service's website as this includes useful information on the English and Welsh legal system and the court structure generally. See https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service.
- The European Court of Human Right's website contains relevant information on how the court works and what type of cases it hears. See http://www.echr.coe.int/Pages/home.aspx?p=home.
- The Supreme Court's website contains useful information on the court , the types of cases that it hears and speeches that have been delivered by the Justices of the Supreme Court. See https://www.supremecourt.uk/about/index.html.
- The Guardian newspaper contains a dedicated law section that tracks key legal developments and interesting blog posts. See http://www.theguardian.com/law.
Chapter 3
There are a number of interesting articles that you might be interested in reading and to consider the contract law implications:
- ‘Five-year-old misses friend’s birthday party and gets invoice for £15.95’ The Guardian, 19th January 2015, available at: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/five-year-old-misses-friends-birthday
- ‘Sir Paul McCartney performs for £1 at the Olympic opening ceremony’ The Telegraph, 30th July 2012, available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/9438779/Sir-Paul-McCartney-performs
Chapter 4
The European Commission support the introduction of a Common European Sales Law. Find out more about this initiative on the European Commission's website at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/contract/cesl/index_en.htm
Chapter 5
This article concerns whether the auction house Sotheby was negligent concerning the attribution of a painting to the wrong painter. The auction house was found not to have been negligent. ‘Sotheby's fends off rare negligence suit over Caravaggio dispute’, Reuters, 16th January 2015 available at: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/uk-britain-caravaggio-idUKKBN0KP1LM20150116
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Chapter 7
- This article relates to the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union: ‘Obesity can be a disability, EU court rules’ The Guardian, 18th December 2014, available at http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/18/obesity-can-be-disability-eu-court-rules
- This article is about the decision of the Employment Tribunal in relation to claims that an employee had been constructively dismissed by her employer: ‘Apprentice's Stella English loses Sugar dismissal case’ BBC News, 12th April 2013, available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22123912
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Chapter 9
‘Supreme Court allows appeal in Prest v Petrodel’ Law Society Gazette, 10th June 2013, available at: http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/supreme-court-allows-appeal-in-prest-v-petrodel/71298.fullarticle
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