Commercial Law for Business

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Dr Arron Phillips
• Tutor: Nabil Rafiq
• Assessment: a two-hour 10-minute examination (100%)

This module gives you an overview of the law relevant to business organisations, and is divided into three main areas of study:

• The English legal system
• Contract law
• Company law

You will learn about the law of contract and the sale of goods, which are fundamental to business, and the legal consequences of a company having a separate artificial legal personality.

Delivery is through lectures, seminars and group discussion.

Indicative syllabus

• Introduction to the structure of the courts
• Sources of law
• European community law
• Formation of contracts
• Sale of goods legislation
• Formation of companies
• Director’s duties

By the end of this module, you will:

• be familiar with the law-making process both in this jurisdiction and the European Community, and the relationship between them
• understand the basic elements of English law of contract
• understand the status of different terms and that the law will imply terms into many contracts
• understand what amounts to a misrepresentation and appreciate the variety of causes of action and respective remedies
• recognise the distinction between a partnership and a company, the various types of companies and understand the exceptions to the rule that a company has a separate legal personality.