Introduction to Civil Law

Civil Law aims to regulate relations between individuals or between individuals and organizations. There are many branches of civil law.

Match the subject areas in the box with the branches of law below. Think of examples of real life cases that would fall under each branch of civil law.

agriculture civil rights divorce environmental law foreign relations law joint venture landlord-tenant pensions product liability property tax unfair competition

Areas	Branches	Example
	Accident and Injury compensation and prevention	I
	Constitutional Law, Individual Rights
	Employment Law
	Enterprise Law
	Family Law
	Intellectual Property
	International, Transnational, Comparative Law
	Law relating to Commercial Transactions
	Law relating to Particular Activities/Business Sectors
	Property, Natural Resources, the Environment
	Taxation

UNIT I. EMPLOYMENT LAW.

READING:

Employment Law,

Introduction to Employment Law,

EU employment laws mean case bonanza,

Discrimination.

LISTENING:

Work vs. Job,

Types of employment,

Employer’s duty towards employee,

Employee’s duty,

Employment contract,

Wrongful and unfair dismissal,

Redundancy and retirement dismissal,

Remedies for wrongful or unfair dismissal,

An employment tribunal claim,

Liability risks.

SPEAKING:

Agreeing and disagreeing,

Case discussion

WRITING:

Attachments and formality,

Advising on advantages and disadvantages in an email

GRAMMAR:

Gerund vs. Infinitive

Starter. 1. What do these quotations mean? Which do you agree with? Do you have any favourite quotations of your own?

2. Which quotations do you find relevant to today’s world or your own life? In what ways? Discuss with your partner and with your group.

Learn whatever you can, wherever you can, from whoever you can. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

G. Marx, US comedian

Man unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

John Steinbeck, “Grapes of Wrath”

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Albert Einstein

I have always worshiped at the shrine of knowledge knowing that regardless of how much I study, read, travel, expose myself to enriching experiences, I still remain an intellectual pauper.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

ARTICLE 43 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE

• Every person has the right to work, including the right to the opportunity to earn one's living by work which he chooses or agrees to freely.

• Citizens are guaranteed protection against unlawful dismissal.

ARTICLE 24 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF UKRAINE

• There shall be no privileges or restrictions based upon race, color of skin, political, religious, and other beliefs, sex, ethnic and social origin, wealth, place of residence, on the basis of language or other characteristics.