Law for Business Students / Alix Adams

Part 1: Introduction: getting started
1. Study skills
2. The nature of law
3. How the law is made
4. Resolving legal disputes

Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods
5. The law of contract : offer and acceptance
6. The law of contract : consideration, intention and privity
7. The terms of of the contract at common law
8. Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services
9. Defects in the contract : misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence
10. More defects : illegality and incapacity
11. Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach
12. The law of agency

Part 3: The law of tort
13. Tort liability for defective goods
14. Tort liability for defective services
15. Tort liability for premises

Part 4: Elements of employment law
16. Rights at work : the contract of employment and health and safety at work
17. Rights at work : protection against discrimination
18. Rights at work : protection against dismissal and redundancy

Part 5: Introduction to company law
19. Business organisation
20. Forming a registered company
21. Running the company : raising and maintaining capital
22. Daily management of the company : functions of directors, secretary and auditors
23. Company meetings and shareholder participation

Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law
24. Statutory intellectual property protection : copyright, designs, patents and trade marks
25. Common law protection of intellectual property : passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence.

Includes index.