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MARKETLEADERMARKETLEADERBusiness English A Robin Widdowson

Business Law

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Pearson Education Limited

Edinburgh Gate Harlow Essex CM20 2JE England and Associated Companies throughout the world.

www.pearsonlongman.com

© Pearson Education Limited 2010

The right of A Robin Widdowson to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Publishers.

First published 2010

ISBN 978-1-408-22005-4

Set in Metaplus, Times & ITC Cheltenham

Printed in Slovakia by Neografia

Acknowledgements

This series was developed and written by consultants working with LTS Training and Consulting, Bath, a specialist language and intercultural training company.

The author and publishers are grateful to Natalie Riddick who reported on earlier drafts of this material.

The author would like to thank Judy Bowles for the very welcome support and patience, Barbara Widdowson for encouragement, and Adrian Pilbeam for the opportunity to write this.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce copyright material:

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Extract in Unit 2 adapted from ‘Company lawyers get a wider role in business’, The Financial Times, 14 July 2005 (Murray, S.), copyright © Sarah Murray; Extract in Unit 2 from ‘Areas of activity for corporate lawyers’, The Financial Times, 14 July 2005 (Murray, S.), copyright © Sarah Murray; Extract in Unit 3 (page 15) adapted from Doc No Ecom 12-00 ‘Alternative dispute resolution in the context of electronic commerce’, February 2000, www.tacd.org, copyright © TACD; Extract in Unit 5 from ‘Bollywood witnesses increases lawyer representation’, The Economic Times, 13 October 2007 (Ganguly, D.), copyright © 2010, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved; Extract in Unit 12 from ‘General duties of employers to their employees’ under Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Crown Copyright material is reproduced with permission under the terms of the Click-Use License; Extracts in Unit 13 from Contract Law, 5th edition, Longman (Elliott, C. and Quinn, F. 2005) copyright © Pearson Education Ltd; Extract in Unit 15 from Business Law, 2nd edition, Longman (Macintyre, E. 2004) copyright © Pearson Education Ltd; Extract in Unit 18 adapted from ‘Leap of faith’, The Lawyer, 27 October 2008 (Bi, F. and Atta, A.), www.thelawyer.com, copyright © The Lawyer.

The Financial Times

Extract in Unit 3 from ‘Arbitration preferred in cross-border dispute’, The Financial Times, 16 May 2006 (Tait, N.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 4 from ‘Right and wrong choices in the market for justice’, The Financial Times, 21 March 2006 (Kay, J.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 6 from ‘Lawyer at GE seeks $500m in gender-bias case’, The Financial Times, 31 May 2007 (Masters, B. and Guerrera, F.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 6 adapted from ‘EU employment law advice’, The Financial Times, 25 April 2008 (Moghadassi, R. and Robinson, W.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 7 from ‘InBev ruling sparks fears for M&A in China’, The Financial Times, 30 November 2008 (Tucker, S.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 9 from ‘Diageo wins whisky piracy case in China’, The Financial Times, 27 November 2008 (Anderlini, J.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 9 adapted from ‘Rise in cases to protect companies’ copyright’, The Financial Times, 21 November 2008 (Moules, J.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 10 from ‘Thinking about fraud’, The Financial Times, 17 October 2008 (Peel, M.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 11 from ‘Industry warns on EU pollution law’, The Financial Times, 7 January 2008 (Bounds, A.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 16 adapted from ‘Secrets of success’, The Financial Times, 26 March 2009 (Burton, J.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd; Extract in Unit 17 from ‘Insider dealing sentence highlights crackdown’, The Financial Times, 4 January 2008 (White, B.), copyright © The Financial Times Ltd.

In some instances we have been unable to trace the owners of copyright material, and we would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so.

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Introduction to business law1 Business and the law 4

2 In-house lawyers 8

3 Handling international disputes 12

4 Different countries, different legal systems 16

Operating globally5 Bollywood needs lawyers! 20

6 Practising diversity 24

7 International mergers and acquisitions 28

8 Cybercrime – a worldwide threat 32

Business law challenges9 Protecting intellectual property 36

10 New ways of dealing with fraud 40

11 The costs of pollution 44

12 A safe workplace? 48

Contracts in the business world13 Contract law 52

14 Terms and conditions: the language of contracts 56

15 A case law report 60

Business law and finance16 How tax laws can create business 64

17 Insider dealing 68

18 Sharia law and international finance 72

Check Tests 76

Answer key 80

Glossary 89

Useful websites 96

Contents

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