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Business Law in Canada, 13th edition

Published by Pearson Canada (January 15, 2023) © 2024

  • Richard A. Yates Simon Fraser University
  • Trevor Clarke Aurora College
  • Angus Ng Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
  • Teresa Bereznicki-Korol Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

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For Business Law courses

Business Law in Canada, provides future business professionals with a strong and practical legal grounding on the issues that touch every business. The new edition reflects the most current developments in business law, as well as the increasing importance of information technology, the internet, intellectual property, and legal issues concerning small businesses.

Hallmark features of this title

  • Case Summaries appear throughout each chapter. They are used to introduce topics and to provide concrete examples that help students understand key legal issues. Many of the Case Summaries also include Discussion Questions, which help promote a more thorough understanding of the relevant issues, or Small Business Perspectives, which identify the relevant legal issues facing small business owners. 
  • Cases and Discussion Questions appear at the end of each chapter. These cases vary in both length and difficulty. They are ideally suited to classroom discussion, but they can also be assigned to students for independent study.
  • Reducing Risk boxes are featured throughout the text. Each Reducing Risk box describes what the sophisticated client would do in the business situation the box presents. 
  • Provincial content in the Revel offers province-specific content detailing legal differences for most provinces. The addition of this material will help give students an accurate understanding of how the law applies to their community

New and updated features of this title

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): The authors incorporated changes based on Pearson's diversity, equity, and inclusion editorial policy and incorporated feedback from a DEI specialist during planning and writing of the new edition.
  • Indigenous business issues: As in the 12th edition, inclusion of content related to Indigenous business issues was a priority, with the goal of improving coverage of these issues even more in future editions.
  • References: All of the legislative and judicial references have been updated throughout the book. 
  • Law in Real Life: This new feature appears at the end of every chapter and takes the form of a guided discussion, prompting students to ask themselves what decisions they would make when faced with a real-life business law scenario. Students can then click to reveal insightful feedback from the author. 

Important Digital Assets in Revel

  • Interactive cases. Each chapter contains two interactive case exercises. Presented with a fictional business law scenario, the student is prompted to make a series of decisions and are given feedback on each choice. 
  • Videos. This new animated Business Law video series covers the text's big topics in fun, digestible packages. Located at the beginning of each chapter, the videos show a suite of characters facing various legal situations and discussing their options. A series of multiple-choice questions accompanies each video. 
  • Provincial Content. The Revel includes provincially specific material for British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, and the Atlantic Provinces.
  • Law in Real Life features. These guided discussions take students through a real-life scenario, pausing for self-reflective questions, and revealing insightful feedback for the student's consideration along the way. 
  • Quizzes. In Revel, each module concludes with a multiple-choice quiz with 3-5 questions and each chapter concludes with a multiple-choice quiz with 19-22 questions.
  1. Managing Your Legal Affairs 
  2. Introduction to the Legal System 
  3. The Resolution of Disputes: The Courts and Alternatives to Litigation 
  4. Intentional Torts and Torts Impacting Business 
  5. Negligence, Professional Liability, and Insurance 
  6. The Elements of a Contract: Consensus and Consideration 
  7. The Elements of a Contract: Capacity, Legality, and Intention 
  8. Factors Affecting the Contractual Relationship 
  9. The End of the Contractual Relationship 
  10. Agency and Partnership 
  11. Corporations 
  12. Employment 
  13. Intellectual Property 
  14. Real and Personal Property and Protection of the Environment 
  15. Priority of Creditors 
  16. Sales and Consumer Protection

Angus K. Ng, LLB, BComm, has been a practicing lawyer since 2008, focusing on the on the areas of employment, insurance, privacy and corporate and commercial law.  Angus loves to teach, and has been an instructor for the Business Law Course at NAIT in Edmonton, Alberta, for over 15 years.  He centres his lectures more around discussion and stories, and how the law affects the lives of students now, and their future as business people.   Prior to turning to the legal profession, Angus was an entrepreneur, and founding partner of a web development company.

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