Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

acquittals for serious offences, i.e. specified offences which carry a maximum life sentence such as murder and rape, which are ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes 1997 and new Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (SI 1998/3132), which came into effect on 1 April 1999. The ...

Appeals – Access to Justice Act 1999 The Access to Justice Act 1999 made provision for reform of the system of appeals in civil ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes 59 Figure 3.4System of courts exercising civil jurisdiction ...

Small claims In 1973, the Lord Chancellor introduced a special scheme for small claims in the county court. This was a response ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes (c)A Commercial Courtdeals with disputes concerning insurance, banking and the interpretation of com ...

Jurisdiction The Law Lords hear civil appeals from the following sources: 1 The Court of Appeal,with the permission of the Court ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes In May 2000 the Lord Chancellor commissioned Sir Andrew Leggatt, a former Court of Appeal judge, to ...

corresponding appellate tribunal and from there to the Court of Appeal. ■All appointments of chairmen and members of tribunals s ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes ■Factors which are relevant to deciding the question of reasonableness include the nature of the dis ...

consists of using a neutral third party (mediator) to help the parties to a legal dispute to reach a common position. Mediation ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes Complaint about Estate agents Central government departments and other public bodies Local governmen ...

Part 1Introduction to law 68 1 For each of the actions listed below state: (a)Which court or tribunal would hear the case? (b)Wh ...

Chapter 3Resolving disputes 69 Courts and tribunals http://www.justice.gov.uk/The website for the Ministry of Justice provides a ...

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Part 2 BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS 4 Classification and survey of types of business organisation 73 5 Non-corporate organisations – s ...

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for the debts of the firm can arise even where profits are not shared, as in the case of salaried partners and con- sultant part ...

contract, verbal or written, between them. Partnership by estoppel, as it is called, is more fully explained in Chapter 5. The l ...

Chapter 4Classification and survey of types of business organisation public advertisement of the post. No special qualifica- tio ...