Commercial Law: Case Studies in a Business Context

158 Pages·1988·12.98 MB·English

by  Desmond Painter (auth.)

COMMERCIAL LAW
Case Studies in a Business Context
Companion volume
Company Law - Case Studies in a Business Context
Desmond Painter
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COMMERCIAL LAW
Case Studies in a Business Context
Desmond Painter
Senior Lecturer in Law
Dorset Institute of Higher Education
M
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Painter, Desmond
Commercial law: case studies in a
business context.
1. Commercial law-Study and teaching
England 2. Commercial law-England
Causes
I. Title
344.206'7' 0264 KD436.C6
ISBN 978-0-333-43466-6 ISBN 978-1-349-09263-5 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-09263-5
For Beatrice
The names and addresses of all the people
and businesses in this book are invented, and
any resemblance to any actual person or
business is entirely coincidental
General Contents
Acknowledgements
Part I
Introduction
Summary of Case-study Contents
Summary of Legal Topics
Part II
Case studies
Part III
Introduction to the notes
Notes on each case study
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Acknowledgements
I am grateful for their permission to reproduce copyright material to the Contractors
Plant Association, General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation pic and
Snows Business Forms. Posy Simmonds kindly allowed me to locate a gnome manufac
turer in Tresoddit. Nick Davies, Mike Vowles, Acorn Press Ltd and Imprint (Bourne
mouth) Ltd gave welcome help with print layouts.
Many colleagues have helped me with ideas, material, criticism and advice: in
particular, Arthur Appleton, Noel Byrne, Cliff Baxter, Keith Cavill, Jim Corke, Ann
Doughty, Dennis Dowding and John Fyfe; they do not, however, bear any responsibility
for errors or omissions in the final result. The practical problems of production have
been much eased by the friendly help of the staff of the Computer Services Unit at
Dorset Institute of Higher Education, and by the guidance and tolerance of Jon
Finegold, my editor at Macmillan Education Ltd. Throughout the long process of
gestation, the support and encouragement of my wife Beatrice and our three children
have been a constant strength.
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PART I
INTRODUCTION
SUMMARY OF CASE-STUDY
CONTENTS
SUMMARY OF LEGAL
TOPICS