NATIONAL ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS

HIGHER NATIONALS
BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL DIPLOMA IN BUSINESS (RQF)

Assignment Brief

Unit Code, Number and H/617/0736 - Unit 7: Business Law

Title
Semester and Academic Year Semester 1 | Academic year 2022 - 2023
Unit Assessor(s) Tran Van Nam / Vu Van Ngoc / Cao Xuan Phong / Tran
Nguyen Khanh / Nguyen Thi Dan Phuong / Ly Vuong Thao

Assignment Title BL A1.1: Individual assignment (Assessment 1 of 1)

Issue Date Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Submission Date 10:00 am, Friday, November 25th, 2022

Student name
NEU Student ID 10210732
Student declaration I certify that the assignment submission is entirely my own
work and I fully understand the consequences of
plagiarism. I understand that making a false declaration is
a form of malpractice.

Student name / Signature NGO HOANG TUAN DAT Date: 29/11/2022

Submission Format

● This is an individual assignment. 

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● This assignment should be written in a concise, formal business style using Arial 11 or
Times New Roman 13 font size and 1.5 spacing. 
● The word limit is 3,500 words (+/- 10%). 
● You MUST complete and submit a softcopy of your work on the due dates stated on the
Assignment brief. All late work is not allowed to submit. This rule is not waived under
any circumstances. 
Read ALL Instructions on this Page and review the Pass, Merit and Distinction criteria
carefully. To pass the assignment, you must achieve ALL the Pass Criteria outlined in the
marking sheet. To achieve a Merit, you must achieve ALL the Merit criteria (and therefore
the Pass criteria). To achieve a Distinction, you must achieve ALL the Distinction criteria
(and therefore the Pass and Merit criteria).
Unit Learning Outcomes
LO1: Explain the nature of the legal system.
LO2: Illustrate the potential impact of the law on a business.
LO3: Examine the formation of different types of business organizations.
LO4: Recommend appropriate legal solutions to resolve areas of disputes.

Vocational Scenario, Assignment activity and guidance

LO1:

1. Read the legal document in the given link:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1003/contents/made
and answer the following question:
- What type of legal source it is?
- Who (which UK organ) made it?
- What are its content?

2. Read case [2021] UKSC 3 and answer the following questions:

- Who sued whom in this case?
- Which court decided this case?
- In deciding this case, which precedent had been used?
- Which UK courts would be bound by (have to follow) this case?
Clue: use the link www.supremecourt.uk

3. Describe role/ participation of UK Cabinet (Government) in the making of law in UK

 (both legislation and case law).

4. Kevin was born as a female but had lived as a man and had undergone gender
reassignment surgery. Kevin and Jennifer wanted to get married. However, the
Marriage Act 1961 required the marriage should be performed between a man and
a woman. There is an argument that because Kevin was born as female, therefore
the marriage between two women could not be valid. Use one of the rules for
statutory interpretation to advise Kevin and Jennifer on whether they can get
married or not.

LO2:

5. Gym For All (GFA) has recently upgraded many of its new facilities and the owner of
the gym posted the advertisement on the Gyms public Facebook page stated: “The
first 10 people to complete 2km on the gyms new water rower in under 7 minutes
will win 1 Annual membership worth €1,500.” Paul saw the GFA’s advertisement and
instantly went to complete the challenge in under the required 7 minutes. But when
Paul claim one of the first 10 memberships, the owner informed him afterwards that
he had replaced the first notice with another on the Facebook page and the offer
was no longer available. The owner stated he was no longer doing the promotion
and no free memberships will be given out. Advise Paul on whether he can get free
annual membership of GFA or not.

6. Raven was working for Road-Runner Transport as office manager. She was in charge
of paying bills and invoices of suppliers (office rent, electricity, etc.) and employees’
salary from the company’s budget. Everything was going smooth and effective.
However, when the Road-Runner Transport had a new owner, situation become
worst. Because of the late payments from the company’s budget, Raven cannot
manage office properly and she received many complaints from suppliers as well as
from company employees. New leaders of company also told some employees that
Raven is not a person suitable for the position of office manager.
Raven resigned because of stress. She then sued Road-Runner Transport on unfair
dismissal. Can Raven win the case?

7. Jessica and her daughter Belinda spent holidays in a High Heaven, a big resort that
has amusement park with lots of entertainment games. Belinda chose to ride on a
big wheel. Due to the poor maintenance by High Heaven, her cabin and some
other cabins had disconnected from the wheel and felt to the ground, causing her
and many other kids seriously injured. Matthew, the big wheel operator, also got
nervous shock. Tom, a guy sitting on one of the cabin, did not suffer any physical
injury, so he tried to rescue the injured kids. Even though at the time of accident,
Jessica was away from the site, but she also got nervously shocked when she saw
her injured daughter in the hospital. Later, Jessica, Belinda, Matthew and Tom
sued High Heaven for damages.
Based on theory of tort of negligence and nervous shock and relevant case law,
discuss situation of Jessica, Belinda, Matthew and Tom and the possible outcome of
 the case for each of them.

LO3:

8. Bill, Donald and George are partners in an unlimited partnership called KwicPic. In
the course of the partnership business, George undertook to restore a valuable
painting for a customer. George carried out the work negligently and the painting
is irreparably damaged. The customer proposed to sue both for tort and for
breach of contract.

Explain the potential liability of KwicPic, Bill, Donald and George on the basis that

- The firm is an unlimited partnership

- The firm is an LLP (clue: Section 6 of Limited Liability Partnership Act 2000).
9. Describe and explain powers, duties of company director.
10. Describe ways a public company could use to raise its capital?

LO4:

11. Hard Steel sold to Smart Constructor 5 tons of construction steel for £28,000.
When dispute arise from the contract, Hard Steel decided to sue Smart
Constructor to the court.

- To which type of court Hard Steel should bring its case to?
- Describe procedure to deal with case at the court from the moment it receive
the claim until is decided the case.

12. Compare dispute settlement by litigation and by arbitration, then list advantages
and disadvantages of each of those method of dispute settlement.

According to Glossary of Command Verb by Pearson

1. Describe/Explain: Give an account, including all the relevant characteristics,

qualities and events.

2. Analyse: Present the outcome of methodical and detailed examination either:

 breaking down a theme, topic or situation in order to interpret and study the
interrelationships between the parts and/or

 of information or data to interpret and study key trends and

interrelationships.

3. Critically analyse: Separate information into components and identify

characteristics with depth to the justification.

4. Assess: Evaluate in terms of advantages and disadvantages

5. Evaluate: work draws on varied information, themes or concepts to consider

 aspects, such as:

 strengths or weaknesses

 advantages or disadvantages

 alternative actions

 relevance or significance.

Students’ inquiries should lead to a supported judgement showing relationship to

its context. This will often be in a conclusion.

6. Critically evaluate: Make a judgement taking into account different factors and
using available knowledge/experience/evidence where the judgement is supported
in depth.

Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Explain the nature of the legal system D1 Provide a coherent and
critical evaluation of the legal
P1 Explain different M1 Evaluate the system and law, with evidence
sources of law. effectiveness of the legal drawn from a range of
system in terms of recent different relevant examples to
P2 Explain the role of reforms and support judgments.
government in law- developments.
making and how
statutory and common
law is applied in the
justice courts.

LO2 Illustrate the potential impact of the law on

a business

P3 Using specific M2 Differentiate between

examples illustrate how legislation, regulations
company, employment and standards to analyse
and contract law has a potential impacts upon
potential impact upon business.
business.

LO3 Examine the formation of different types of business organization

P4 Explore how different M3 Assess the D2 Critically evaluate the

types of business advantages and formation of different types of
organizations are legally disadvantages of the business organizations.
formed.
P5 Explain how business formation of different
organizations are types of business
managed and funded. organizations.

LO4 Recommend appropriate legal solutions to resolve areas of disputes

P6 Recommend legal M4 Compare and D3 Evaluate the effectiveness

solutions for resolving a contrast different sources of legal solutions, legal advice
range of disputes using of legal advice and and support for dispute
examples to support for dispute resolution.
demonstrate how a party
resolution.
might obtain legal advice
and support.