Law for Business Students

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AvAlix Adams,Stephanie Caplan,Graeme Lockwood,Elizabeth Oliver

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Law for Business Students 13e provides a clear and practical introduction to the legal principles relating to today’s business environment. Written specifically for non law students, it explains core concepts in an accessible and engaging way, using real world cases to illustrate how business law operates in practice. This textbook will help you to identify legal issues, apply legal rules to business scenarios, and understand the legal implications of everyday commercial decisions.

Each chapter is user-friendly and includes tried and tested learning features to support your understanding, including ‘worth thinking about’ sections to encourage critical thinking and discussion, exam tips and study skills content to help you prepare effectively for your assessments, and review questions to put your learning into practice.

The new 13th edition is fully updated throughout to reflect important legal and societal developments across key areas of business law, particularly the growing impact of artificial intelligence on the law, with specific attention to employment law. The text also incorporates the most recent legislative reforms, including the Employment Rights Bill, together with updates in company law.

As a result, Law for Business Students is the essential text to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in your studies and to engage confidently with legal issues in your future business career.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-23
Vikt1 194 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor720
Upplaga13
FörlagPearson Education
ISBN9781292488875

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Alix Adams is a barrister with over 30 years’ experience of teaching law from GCSE to degree and postgraduate level.Stephanie Caplan is a barrister and a Senior Lecturer at Kings Business School, Kings College London with extensive experience in teaching law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and with a special interest in employment law.Graeme Lockwood was a Senior Lecturer in business law at Kings Business School, Kings College, London and was a prominent researcher who published extensively in employment law.Liz Oliver is a Lecturer in Employment Law at Leeds University Business School and has extensive experience as a researcher specialising in employment law and policy.

1. Study skills2. The nature of law3. How the law is made4. Resolving legal disputes5. The law of contract: Offer and acceptance6. The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity7. The terms of the contract at common law8. Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services9. Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence10. The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity11. Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach12. The law of agency13. The tort of negligence14. Negligence and special duty situations15. Product liability16. Occupiers' liability, nuisance and vicarious liability17. Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work18. Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment19. Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy20. Business organisations21. Forming a registered company22. Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital23. The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors24. Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection25. Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks26. Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence