Business Law for Non-Lawyers
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
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Most law books are written by lawyers for lawyers and this is good because we need sound academic legal books to know and understand the law. But the information in most of these books tend not be too accessible to non-lawyers without the advice and guidance of lawyers. Therefore, this book does not intend to be an academic treatise on business law, but to be a practical guide for you, a non-lawyer, first learning about the law and how it operates in Canada. Further, it is targeted at business students and business managers to be able to have a pragmatic overview of the application of various areas of law as concerns their respective businesses. It provides overall guidance of the law as an overview, factoring business contexts to teach you to assess legal risk.
Unit 1 - The Canadian Legal System
Introduction
Chapter 1: Business Operations: The Canadian Legal Framework
Chapter 2: Canadian Litigation and Legal Risk Management
Unit 2 - Various Methods of Commercial Exchange: The Corporation"
Introduction
Chapter 3: Corporate Law: Its History, Its Present, and Its Future
Unit 3 - Harms Caused by the Wrongful Acts of Others: Tort Law
Introduction
Chapter 4: Injuries Caused by Your Harmful Acts: Tort Law
Chapter 5: Liability Even for Unintentional Acts: Negligence
Unit 4 - Liability for Another Person's Actions: Agency Law
Introduction
Chapter 6: Agency Law: Another Person's Actions - Mea Culpa!
Unit 5 - The Master/Servant Relationship: Employment Law
Introduction
Chapter 7: Employment Law: An Ever-Loving Landscape of Obligations
Unit 6 - Voluntary Obligations to Which We Subscribe: Contract Law
Introduction
Chapter 8: Contract Formation: Seven Key Elements to Create Binding Obligations
Chapter 9: Contract Enforceability: Situations That Vitiate Contract Enforcement
Chapter 10: Form of Contract: How to Read and Interpret Your Obligations
Unit 7 - Legislation Impacts Business Operations: Statue Law
Introduction"
Chapter 11: Statute Law: It's Not Just for Lawyers to Read and Understand
Unit 8 - Network fo Legal Relationships in Respect of Things: Property Law
Introduction
Chapter 12: Property Law: Ownership in Tangible and Intangible Things
Ms. Chiasson, BComm, MBA, JD, was Senior Counsel at Linamar Corporation where she worked for over 11 years. She also acted as Director of Legal Services for a subsidiary of Linamar in the access market sector, Skyjack Inc., where she was also a member of the senior executive group and has been for the past three years. She was also the Director of Legal Services for yet another Linamar subsidiary, MacDon Industries Ltd., in the agricultural sector.
Today, she acts as Assistant General Counsel for a Canadian technology company and General Counsel for a tire distribution company. She had 15 years of management experience in her previous career in both the public (with an agency of the Ministry of the Environment) and private sectors (with a mutual fund subsidiary of SunLife Assurance Company) prior to becoming a lawyer. She has been teaching at the University of Guelph for over 15 years.