CONTENTS
  · Chapter 1: English legal system
  · Chapter 2: Contract law
  · Chapter 3: The law of torts
  · Chapter 4: Employment law
  · Chapter 5: Agency law
  · Chapter 6: Partnerships
  · Chapter 7: Corporations & Legal personality
  · Chapter 8: Capital & Financing
  · Chapter 9: Directors
  · Chapter 10: Corporate administration
  · Chapter 11: Insolvency
  · Chapter 12: Corporate governance
  · Chapter 13: Fraudulent behavior
  Cost and revenue $
  Learning objects:
  1.The system of UK courts
  2.Source of law
  3.Interpretation of statute
  4.Human Rights Act effect
  Law
  · Criminal law
  · Civil law
  Criminal law
  · The State is the prosecutor
  · The object is to prove guilt
  · Punishment: fines, imprisonment, community-based punishment
  Criminal law
  · A crime is an offence against the state. The state prosecutes a person who is accused of a crime.
  · The object is to prove guilt.
  · The object of criminal law is to regulate society by the threat of punishment.
  · Finally, the criminal court may sentence the defendant and fine him or impose a period of imprisonment.
  Civil law
  · An action is brought by one person (the claimant) against another (the defendant)
  · The object is to show liability
  · Compensation: damages or some other remedy
  · Both parties may choose to settle the dispute out of court