Contractual Liability Case Study

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(P3.1) Liability is a burden or a party who is accountable for the breach. Contrast liability with contractual liability are both on the basis of failure to observe a duty imposed by law. One of them is an agreement and the other is by duty of performing and acting in a reasonable matter.
Contractual liability is where if one party fails to perform regarding the contract term. It is created if two or more parties intend few things to each other. As default on the agreement occurred, that is termed as breach of a contract.
In case of a valid contract between more than one or two parties, if one of the parties fail to fulfill the terms in the contract, a contractual liability occurs. For example, as Hakim offered AED 5000 for Sahir to construct …show more content…

(P3.3) Vicarious liability arises from a situation when one party becomes responsible due to unlawful actions of a third party. The liable party also becomes responsible for his own share of liability. The liability comes into existence if one party has the possibility to become responsible for a third party and does show willingness to carry out the respective responsibility and exercising control.
Such scenarios of this liability is when unlawful actions such as discriminations or harassments in a workplace occurs of an employee makes his employer liable as the employer has responsibilities of his employees or if an employee made an unlawful action such as stealing or theft, the employer or the business itself is involved as they carry the liability as they are considered to take responsibility to prevent any kind of unlawful actions performed by its employees.
TASK 4 (P4.1, P4.2)
(P4.1) The Employment Rights Act 1996 describes the rights and other issues of the employees of the firm. Hence, organizations should be conscious about the different aspects of the law to avoid any kind of problem arisen from the ignorance of the provisions of the

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