Business Skills for Engineers and Technologists

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Law

Summary

The English legal system has developed over hundreds of years. It forms the model for legal systems in many countries throughout the world and its mix of evolved and prescribed law makes it useful for understanding how other systems in other countries work. Understanding the prescribed legislation relating to the design, production, protection and sale of engineering products and services also provides a basis for understanding compliance of these issues worldwide. In the event that the law has to be called on, there are two areas of action known as civil and criminal law. This chapter introduces these actions, the relevant laws, the legal issues around them and the legal framework in which they sit. An understanding of these ...