Civil and Commercial Law

Aim

The course aims to give a general introduction to law and the legal system plus basic knowledge in the main area of property law including contract law, purchasing rights, association rights and market law. After completing this course students should be able to solve simple legal matters in the work place and decide when judicial expertise is needed as well as follow and understand more complicated legal reasoning.

Content

• Law and the legal system: The nature and grouping/classification of the legal system. Different legal sources. Legal source material, how to find it and how to use it. The court system and legal proceedings. Arbitration.
• Property Law a) Contract Law: Entering into a contract, invalid contracts, modification and exclusion of unjustifiable terms and conditions, powers of attorney, standard contracts. b) Buyers Rights: Parties obligations, breach of contract, hire-purchase, consumer purchasing, door-to-door sales. c) Buying on Credit: Different types of indebtedness (promissory notes), different forms of security, statute of limitations, debt collection. d) Law of Association: Different types of company. Private companies. Trading companies: Establishment, organisation, owner's responsibility. Economic associations. Foundations. Joint-stock companies: Establishment, changes in and payment of share capital, protection of share capital, organisation, the company's rights and obligations, annual accounts and dissolution/winding up of the company. e) Labour Law: Various parties in the labour market, negotiation and union rights, right of participation in decision making, collective contract/collective wage agreement, industrial action, mediating, the individual employment contract, job security agreements and holiday rights. f) Non-material Rights: Copyright, patenting rights, design rights, trademark rights and business rights.
• Market Rights, competition and economic criminal law.
• Employers' penalties.