Unit name | Law of Contract |
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Unit code | LAWD10008 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. McVea |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
Contract law is a component of the modern law of obligations. Fundamentally, contract law is concerned with the promises which people make to one another. It governs questions such as: which agreements will the law enforce? what obligations are imposed by the agreement in question? and what remedies are imposed if the obligations that have been promised are not fulfilled? Topics covered include: offer and acceptance; consideration and promissory estoppel; intention to create legal relations; privity; illegitimate pressure; express and implied terms, including exclusion and limitation clauses; misrepresentation; mistake; frustration; performance and breach; and remedies.
The unit aims to ensure that students are able to:
On completing the unit, students will be able to demonstrate a basic working knowledge of the English law of contract as well as the technical and intellectual skills identified above.
The unit will be taught by a combination of up to 27 lectures, 9 tutorials, with some revision classes
Formative assessment: problem question (1,000 words) and mid-sessional examination (90 mins). Summative assessment: one 3-hour (unseen) exam consisting of essays and problem questions (100% of mark).
Beatson et al, Ansons Law of Contract 29th edn., OUP, 2010) Chen-Wishart, Contract Law (3rd edn., Oxford, 2010) Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston, The Law of Contract (15th edn., Oxford, 2007) Peel, Treitel: The Law of Contract (12th edn., Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, 2007) Koffman & MacDonald, The Law of Contract (7th edn, Oxford, 2010) A Burrows, A Casebook on Contract Law (2nd edn., Hart, 2009)