Part 1: Introduction: getting started

1. Study skills
2. The nature of law
3. How the law is made
4. Resolving legal disputes

Part 2: Law of contract, agency and sale of goods

5. The law of contract: Offer and acceptance
6. The law of contract: Consideration, intention and privity
7. The terms of the contract at common law
8. Statutory terms in contracts for sale of goods and services
9. Defects in the contract: Misrepresentation, mistake, duress and undue influence
10. The consequences of illegality and incapacity: Illegality and incapacity
11. Discharge of the contract and remedies for breach
12. The law of agency

Part 3: The law of tort

13. The tort of negligence
14. Negligence and special duty situations
15. Product liability
16. Occupiers’ liability, nuisance and vicarious liability

Part 4: Elements of employment law

17. Rights at work: The contract of employment and health and safety at work
18. Rights at work: Protection against discrimination in employment
19. Rights at work: Protection against termination of employment by wrongful and unfair dismissal including redundancy

Part 5: Introduction to company law

20. Business organisations
21. Forming a registered company
22. Running the company: Raising and maintaining capital
23. The management and governance of companies: Functions of directors, secretary and auditors
24. Company meetings, shareholder participation and minority protection

Part 6: General principles of intellectual property law

25. Statutory intellectual property protection: Copyright, designs, patents and trademarks
26. Common law protection of intellectual property: Passing off, malicious falsehood and breach of confidence

Appendix 1: Additional resources

Appendix 2: Worth thinking about? and Review questions – outline answers

Index