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LFBM104 Legal Issues in Business Organizations Assignment - University of Sunderland, UK
Learning outcomes -
Knowledge -
1. Explain the nature of the English legal and justice system
2. Discuss the importance of legal knowledge and its strategic importance for the conduct of business
3. Demonstrate understanding of legal principles, company law, tort law and employment law
4. Examine the formation of different types of business organizations
5. Suggest appropriate legal solutions to resolve areas of dispute
6. Explore the history and structure of the legal issues in the tourism and event organization
Skills -
1. An ability to understand legal rules arising from legislation and apply this legislation to particular situations.
2. An ability to identify legal issues arising from a particular set of facts.
3. To analyze legal cases and evaluate arguments based upon them.
Assessment - Formative unassessed draft assignment and Summative
You will receive formative feedback to guide you in line with your formative assignment. Note that the formative draft assignment is unassessed. Formative feedback for all draft assignment is designed to help prepare you for summative assessment which is assessed and counts towards the course mark and to the degree award. Range of formative assessment, such as essays, debates, problem sets questions, case studies, reports, quizzes, mock exams and many others will be used.
Feedback on draft assignment/s is an essential part of the teaching and learning experience. Class teachers will mark formative draft assignment [unassessed] and return it with feedback to you during the workshop period or before the final submission.
Guidance - Students are asked to reflect and familiarize on relevant UK case laws/statutes/legislations suitable for answering assignment questions. For example, for Human Right, BELLINGER V BELLINGER (2003) UKHL 21 / R V SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT, EX PARTE BRIND (1991).
Task - Choose ONE of the questions below and write an essay of 2000 words in length, excluding appendices.
1. Identify and illustrate the ways in which Company law is important in a business.
2. Explain the nature of the legal system and the justice system.
3. Describe the formation of three different types of businesses organizations of your choice and explain the appropriate legal solutions to resolve different types of disputes.
4. Evaluate the impact of the legal and ethical considerations on an event and tourism business of your choice.
5. To what extent has the legal issues in the tourism and event industry affected customers supply and demand.
6. A tort is a civil wrong independent of contract. The law of tort imposes duties at civil law in respect of a wide range of behaviour relevant to business activity. For this meaning, explain the tort of negligence, consumer protection, health and safety, liability for defective goods and product liability.
7. Discuss the potential impact of the law on the chosen types of businesses organizations chosen.
8. Explore and demonstrate how the Company law, Employment law, and Contract Law has a potential impact on business.
The submitted essay must be supported with law examples. The submitted essay must be supported with case laws, statutes/legislations. Harvard referencing style or Oscola is accepted.
Critical Essay Structure - The essay structure for this type of essay is quite simple, so it's easy to follow. Most critical essays will follow this pattern:
Introduction: Where you introduce the main topic, and present your thesis on it. You'll be expanding on this shortly.
Main body: This is where you'll be writing about your evaluation. Dedicate each paragraph to a new topic, and link them together to create a flow that your readers can follow. Use your research to back up any points you make here.
Main Body (is not a heading)
Identifies and develops main themes and issues in paragraphs and sections. In a report, you use headings and sub-headings to identify different sections. It is not unusual to find headings in essays nowadays - there isn't a hard and fast rule. It will often depend on the preference of the marker - check with your lecturer if you're not sure.
Conclusion: This is where you'll wrap up your main points, in order to prove your thesis.