Articles tagged as UK Law
UK law covers the laws and legislation of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Essays, case summaries, problem questions and dissertations here are relevant to law students from the United Kingdom and Great Britain, as well as students wishing to learn more about the UK legal system from overseas.
Latest Law Papers tagged as UK Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Non-discrimination Legislation
EU Law
The European Union has actively been involved with non-discrimination legislation since the 1970s when gender equality laws were introduced....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
A History of English Land Law and the LRA
Land Law
This essay attempts to demonstrate the wide-ranging implications of the introduction of the LRA 2002, particularly in relation to freehold ownership....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Corporate Insolvency Law in the UK
Finance Law
Recently, the environment in which corporate insolvencies are resolved has changed. In the past fifteen years corporate insolvency law in the UK has been radically reshaped mainly by means of the Enterprise Act. As a result corporate......
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Analysis of Euthanasia Law in Netherlands and UK
Human Rights Law
Progressive development of human rights together with medical science brings continuously discussible question of euthanasia....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Duty of Care Essay
General Law
Free Masters Level Law Essays! Free Tort Law Essay...
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The New Derivative Claim
Finance Law
One of the disputable areas in the Companies Act 2006 (‘CA 2006’) is the provisions of derivative claim. A derivative claim is a claim brought by individual shareholders seeking relief...
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Legal Treatment of the Family Home
Family Law
Traditionally, the legal treatment of the family home in property disputes has been problematic, despite the English courts developing different methods of using equitable devices to establish beneficial interests....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Advantages of Incorporation
Finance Law
This question requires the explanation of the incorporation, limited liability, separate legal entity, other advantages of incorporation and a brief discussion on the preserve manner from partnership....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
European Court of Human Rights of Transsexuals
Human Rights Law
For over the past 30 years or so, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) was 'reluctant to recognise any positive duty upon the United Kingdom� towards legal recognition of the new sexual identity of transsexuals....
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
How Corporate Expose Shareholders and Directors
Finance Law
In what ways may the corporate veil be pierced in order to expose shareholders and directors to personal liability for the debts of the company?...
Last modified: 17th Jul 2019
Melluish v BMI
Case Summaries
The appellant company provided equipment, such as central heating and crematoria equipment, for local authorities to use in their properties....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Morris v Murray - 1991
Case Summaries
After drinking alcohol the whole afternoon, the plaintiff and his friend decided to go on a flight in the friend’s light aircraft. The plaintiff drove a......
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Monarch Airlines v London Luton Airport
Case Summaries
The Claimant airline had one of its planes damaged by a loose paving stone, while taxing on the runway of the airport operated by the Defendant....
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Pursell v Horn - 1838
Case Summaries
In this case the defendant threw water on the claimant and got both the claimant and the claimant’s clothes, wet. The claimant started an action for......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Othman v UK 2012 Case Summary | Abu Qatada
Case Summaries
Othman (Abu Qatada) v United Kingdom (UK) (2012) 55 EHRR 1, 189. Deportation and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Parmiter v Coupland - 1840
Case Summaries
The claimant was the late mayor of Winchester. A series of libels were published of him in a local newspaper between November 1938 and March 1939......
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Notting Hill Housing Trust v Brackley
Case Summaries
A married couple held a periodic tenancy on a property as joint tenants, which could be terminated with the provision of four months notice....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Norfolk Constabulary v Seekings
Case Summaries
The defendants, Seekings and Gould, were convicted of attempted burglary of two articulated lorry trailers that were being used......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Massey v Boulden - 2002
Case Summaries
The case revolved around an open green space close to a public highway between Bilsington and Hythe, known as the Pinn, as well as adjacent land......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Medforth v Blake
Case Summaries
In 1984 the defendants were appointed as receivers over the pig-farming business of the plaintiff. After the receivership had ended......
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Lonrho v Shell Case Summary
Case Summaries
Shell operated an oil refinery in Southern Rhodesia (SR). Lonrho constructed a pipeline from a port in Mozambique where oil......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Massey v Midland Bank
Case Summaries
Ms Massey owned a house. Her companion (although they did not live together), P, convinced to charge the house as security for an overdraft......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Metropolitan Police Commissioner v Caldwell
Case Summaries
The appellant had worked in a hotel and during this employment he developed a grudge against the hotel owner. This eventually came to the......
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019
Moeliker v A Reyolle - 1977
Case Summaries
The claimant had been apprenticed to the defendant company when he was a teenager and had been employed by them ever since....
Last modified: 16th Jul 2019