Table of Contents

Part I.
Business regulation, the state and the legal process
1: Business regulation
2: The state, the law and the legal system
Part II.
The law of torts
3: The law of torts
4: Trespass
5: Defamation
6: Economic torts
7: Negligence
8: Defences and remedies
9: Special forms of liability in negligence
10: Nuisance
11: The effectiveness of the tort system - some alternatives
Part III.
Contract
12: Agreement
13: Consideration and intention
14: Statements made in a contractual setting
15: Factors affecting the validity of contracts
16: Contracts and public policy
17: Discharge, breach and remedies
18: Exclusion of liability
19: Privity of contract
Part IV.
The classification and regulation of business transactions - goods and services
20: The classification of transactions
21: Statutory implied terms in contracts for the sale and supply of goods
22: Passing of property and risk in contracts of sale
23: Who can pass title in contracts of sale?
24: Delivery and payment in contracts of sale
25: Contracts involving services
Part V.
Financing the supply of goods and services
26: The development and regulation of credit
27: Regulated agreements
28: Control of credit agreements
Part VI.
Business relations
29: Agency
30: The business and the workforce
Part VII.
The legal framework of business organisations
31: Types of business organisation
32: Partnership
33: Corporate status
34: Corporate capital
35: Distribution of corporate power and authority in law and realty
36: Corporate insolvency and winding up
37: Takeovers and mergers
38: Dealings in securities and financial services
Index

About the Author

Nigel Savage, BA, LLM, PhD, Professor and Head of Nottingham Law School; Managing Director, Nottingham Law School Ltd. Robert Bradgate, MA, Solicitor, Senior Lecturer, Unit for Commercial Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Sheffield