Business Law, 12th edition
Published by Pearson (3 November 2023) © 2024
- Andy Gibson
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For Australian business law students.
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Business Law is a practical, engaging text that will satisfy the requirements of most business or commercial law subjects throughout Australia. This 12th edition continues to provide students of commercial or business law with an accessible and student-friendly but authoritative and comprehensive textbook. It provides extensive coverage of business law topics and considers the legal environment in which businesses must operate. Care has been taken to ensure that the text represents current law in all states and territories.
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- In brief boxes summarise key points relevant to the particular area of law under discussion.
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- Five chapters have been added to this edition: Insurance; Ethics and business practice; Insolvency and debt recovery; Work environment and employment relationship; and Ethics and regulations in marketing and advertising.
- Changes to legislation and cases since the last edition have been updated in the text. In particular, topic coverage of the Australian Consumer Law has been increased in Chapters 9 and 10.
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Table of contents
- PART 1 The legal framework
- Chapter 1 Legal foundations
- Chapter 2 How the legal system works
- PART 2 Law of contracts
- Chapter 3 Creating a contract
- Chapter 4 Validity
- Chapter 5 Terms of the contract
- Chapter 6 Rights and liabilities of the parties, discharge and remedies
- PART 3 Civil liability
- Chapter 7 Civil liability: The law of torts and negligence
- Chapter 8 Applications of the torts of negligence and defamation to the business
- PART 4 Consumer law
- Chapter 9 The Australian Consumer Law: Misleading or deceptive conduct, false or misleading representations and unfair practices
- Chapter 10 Other consumer protections under the Australian Consumer Law
- PART 5 Business organisation and the law
- Chapter 11 Agency
- Chapter 12 Sole traders and partnerships
- Chapter 13 Introduction to companies and incorporated associations
- Chapter 14 Choosing a business entity
- Chapter 15 Insurance
- Chapter 16 Ethics and business practice
- Chapter 17 Insolvency and debt recovery
- Chapter 18 The work environment and the employment relationship
- Chapter 19 Ethics and regulations in marketing and advertising
Additional online only PDF chapters
- Chapter 20 Other business related torts
- Chapter 21 Sale of goods - business to business
- Chapter 22 Property and mortgages
- Chapter 23 Intellectual property
- Chapter 24 Criminal law in a business context
- Chapter 25 Competition law
- Chapter 26 Electronic commerce
- Chapter 27 Negotiable instruments
- Chapter 28 Consumer credit and privacy
Author bios
Andy Gibson has worked in private legal practice and lectured in business law now for 40 years, first at the (then) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, then at Griffith University and finally at Southern Cross University where he is now an adjunct Associate Professor there as well as at the Universal Business School Sydney.
Andy has co-authored a number of business law texts with Doug Fraser, as well as being sole author of a Sports Law text. He has jointly authored a text on the law of torts and was the founding editor of a sports law loose-leaf publication. Andy was Financial Director of the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA) and is now a life member. He developed a case index on sports law cases in Australia for the ANZSLA, as well as being an editor and reviewer for the ANZSLA peer-reviewed Sports Lay Journal. He also writes occasional articles on various sports law issues that clubs and associations in sport face today for the Sport Australia publication, Play by the Rules, as well as conducting seminars for sporting bodies on legal issues such as governance and disputes.
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