Smith & Keenan's Law for Business 13th ed

Smith and Keenan's Law for Business is an established and respected textbook. It is especially suitable for undergraduate non-law students who have a business law component in their degree. It also satisfies the business law requirements for a number of professional bodies including the Association of Charted Certified Accountants, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Chartered Insurance Institute, and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.

The book has been updated to include new statutory and case law developments, in particular the impact of new laws in the sphere of employment law, discrimination, and company law. Key features of this edition include:-

• new material on negligence including Occupier's Liability, Nuisance, and Rylands v Fletcher liability as it relates to business cases;
• analysis of the Companies (Audit, Investigators and Community Enterprise) Act 2004 which strengthens the powers of auditors post-Enron, gives new duties to directors, and creates a new form of company (i.e. the Community Interest Company);
• discussion of the Consumer Credit Act 2006; consideration of the Company Law Reform Bill
• examination of the Employment Relations Act 2004.