Law

This module of the ICAEW Certificate in Finance, Accounting & Business provides participants with an understanding of the principles of English law and covers civil law and criminal law, company and insolvency law and ethics.

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Below is the outline for this programme:

Day One

  • Contract formation: what is a contract and what makes a contract valid?
  • Offer and acceptance
  • Intention to create legal relations
  • The nature of consideration
  • The terms of the contract
  • Privity of contract
  • Contract termination: how can a contract be discharged?
  • Remedies
  • Exclusion causes in contracts

Day Two

  • Agency and agents
  • Creation of agency
  • The duties, rights and authority of an agent
  • Liability of the parties
  • The law of tort
  • The tort of negligence
  • Professional advice and negligent misstatement
  • Defense and damages
  • Vicarious liability

Day Three

  • Characteristics of a company and the consequences of incorporation
  • Types of company
  • Rules about a company’s name
  • Articles of association
  • Administrative consequences of incorporation
  • Powers and duties of company directors
  • Powers and duties of members (shareholders)
  • Majority rule and minority protection
  • Meetings and resolutions
  • Shares and share capital
  • Loan capital and charges

Day Four

  • Insolvency law: corporate and personal
  • The purpose and consequences of administration
  • Receivership and liquidation
  • Individual voluntary arrangements
  • Bankruptcy
  • Definition of types of partnership
  • Ordinary partnerships
  • Comparison between ordinary partnerships and companies
  • Limited liability partnerships

Day Five

  • Introduction to the topic of criminal law
  • Whistle-blowing
  • Fraud
  • Bribery and corruption
  • Money laundering
  • Law and ethics
  • The Data Protection Act 1998
  • The Freedom of Information Act 2000
  • Employment law: what is the significance of ‘employee’ status
  • The employment contract
  • Unfair and wrongful dismissal; redundancy
  • The week will conclude with an examination and a summary covering all of the learning from the week

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