Details
- Presents contract law in a visually appealing manner with numerous diagrams, flowcharts, and tables to help explain the complexities of the subject and bring it to life
- Counterpoint and reflection boxes encourage students to reflect on their reading and fully consider possible alternatives
- Questions are listed at the end of each chapter and encourage students to assess their understanding and prepare for their revision
- Provides full coverage of the major debates, and explores the main criticisms of the current law and possibilities for reform
- The Online Resource Centre provides a wealth of resources including updates, web links, guidance on answering the questions posed in the book, each chapter in essence, a test bank, and PowerPoint presentations with audio, that demonstrate how the diagrams in the book come together
New to this edition
- The new edition incorporates a review of the progress towards a European contract law, and discussion of the Scottish Law Commission's Discussion Paper on Interpretation of Contract
- Fully updated to include examination of key cases such as: Dysart Timbers Limited v Roderick William Nielsen (on lapse of offer on the occurrence of a radical change to the basis of the offer); RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Molkerei Alois Muller GMBH and Benourad v Compass Group plc (on when parties have waived their stipulation that their agreement be 'subject to contract'); Radmacher v Granatino (on the enforceability of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements); Springwell Navigation Corporation v JP Morgan andAXA Sun Life Services v Campbell Martinon (on exemptions of liability for misrepresentations); Borrelli, Cornforth Hill, Christensen (Liquidators) v James Ting (on lawful act duress); and Mediterranean Salvage v Seamar Trading (The Reborn) and Inta Navigation v Ranch Investments (on the reception of Lord Hoffmann's construction approach to implied terms)
- The author has comprehensively reviewed each part of the book to ensure the explanations and diagrams are even clearer for first year undergraduates
Contract Law offers a unique and highly innovative approach to contract law, utilising numerous diagrams to complement the academically rigorous text, which illuminate the subject and bring it to life.
Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, the book employs a lively and critical style to explain the intricacies of contract law and the questions that arise during the life of a contract. The book's use of 'pause for reflection' and 'counterpoint' boxes also encourages students to engage with the key debates, facilitating an appreciation of the more complex tensions surrounding this essential subject.
The book is accompanied by a comprehensive website to support the use of the book in teaching. Students can access the following resources: PowerPoint slides of selected diagrams with accompanying audio (voiced by the author) to show how these come together; updates; web links to key cases and legislation; guidance on answering the questions posed in the book; and two additional chapters on incapacity and illegality & public policy. Additionally, lecturers have access to a test bank, and electronic copies of the diagrams from the book.
Readership: This book is suitable for undergraduate students undertaking a contract law module as part of their degree programme.
1: Introduction
Part I: Contract formation
2: Agreement
3: Enforceability: consideration, formalities, promissory estoppel
Part II: Privity
4: Privity
Part III: 'Vitiating' factors
5: Misrepresentation and non-disclosure
6: Mistaken assumptions
7: Frustration
8: Duress
9: Unfairness: undue influence, non-commercial guarantees, unconscionable bargains
Part IV: The contents of contracts
10: Identifying and interpreting contractual terms
11: Direct control over terms
Part V: Breach and remedies for breach
12: Breach of contract and termination
13: Damages
14: Specific and agreed remedies
Mindy Chen-Wishart, Reader in Contract Law, Oxford University Law Faculty, Fellow of Merton College Oxford, and Professor of Law, National University of Singapore
Mindy Chen-Wishart is Reader in Contract Law in the Law Faculty at Oxford University, a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. Previously she was a senior lecturer at Otago University, New Zealand, and Rhodes Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford.
"Certainly one of the best contract texts available" - Charlie Webb, Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics
