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Business and patent Information services can provide access to a range of information sources to help keep you informed of the latest legal issues.
Cobra
(Complete Business and
Reference Advisor)
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Direct access for Leeds Library members |
Business Legal Library - Here you can access more than 500 fact sheets on a range of topics covering the following areas:
- Agriculture and Fishing
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Company Law
- Consumer and Trading law
- Employment Law
- Environment
- Finance
- Food Safety
- Health and Safety
- Information Technology
- Intellectual Property
- Premises
- Tax, National Insurance and VAT
- Transport
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Croners Legal Information
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Available online at Leeds Central Library |
Croner's legal information is written with the self-employed and small business in mind, they comprehensively cover and interpret the language of the Statutes and regulations in clear and concise terms.
Reference Book for Employers - CRONER
Provides clear practical advice for all areas of employment law:
- Recruiting employees
- Contracts of employment
- Paying employees
- Industrial relations
- Employees rights
- Termination of employment
- Training and development
- Health and Safety
- Social Security
- Penisons
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Reference book for the self employed and smaller business
This resource cuts through the red tape providing straightforward answers to rules and regulations. Information is divided into the following sections:
- Taxation
- Value added tax
- National Insurance
- Employment
- Health and safety
- Consumer Law
- Company Law
- Finance
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Reference Book for Exporters / Reference Book for Importers
Access everything you need to know about importing and exporting: Customs procedures, export/import controls, documents, advice and support, transport, marking and information on procedures within individual countries.
CANS Legal Information
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Direct access for Leeds Library members |
Cans provides detailed summaries of the laws of England, Wales and Scotland.
CANS explains the law, puts the law into context, explains how the laws relate
to each other and keeps you up to date with the latest amendments.
The Business section of CANS provides summaries of legislation on most legal topics,
such as company law, promotion of competition, payments of commercial debts and
licensing.
What is a standard?
'Put at its simplest, a standard is an agreed, repeatable way of doing something' (BSI Group, www.bsi-global.com website)
British standards are published documents which provide technical
specifications to be used consistently as a rule, guideline or definition.
Kite Mark - is a registered certification of products and services which have met the requirements of specific standards within designated schemes. It is mainly applicable to safety and quality management standards.
The site is updated daily and includes more than 38,500 current, draft and historic British Standards, more than 16,000 of which are BSi adopted European and international standards.
Following the move to harmonisation of standards across Europe some British standards have gradually been replaced by EN - European Standards.
British Standard documents tend to cover the following areas of information
- scope of the document
- references to other standards
- terms and definitions of key words used
- construction requirements
- performance requirements
- testing
- marking
- information to be supplied by the manufacturer
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Tolley's Health and safety Guide
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Available through the
Information Centre |
An authoritative handbook providing clear interpretation of legislation and regulations, updated on a regular basis.
Examples of areas covered:
- Accident reporting and investigation
- Hazardous substances in the workplace
- Manual Handling
- Fire prevention and control
- Noise at work
- Ventilation
- Occupiers liability
- Personal protective equipment
- Risk assessment
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