Casebook on Contract Law, 14th Edition

Author: Robert Merkin; Severine Saintier
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198817864
Published In: July 2019
Format: Paperback , 832 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The introductory chapter provides valuable guidance on how to use a casebook to help develop the essential skills of reading and analysing cases
Cases are accompanied by succinct author commentary designed to highlight the key elements of each case
Thought-provoking questions are posed throughout to develop an in-depth understanding of the subject
The book is easy to use and navigate through as the case extracts are clearly distinguished from author commentary

Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law which addresses all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses.

Extracts have been chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts and to show how legal principles are developed. The cases can either be analysed and discussed independently or, taken as a whole, the cases form chapters that provide a sound understanding of the modern law of contract.

Readership: Undergraduate and GDL students following the core element of contract law within their degree programmes.

1: Guidance on reading cases
2: Agreement
3: Agreement problems
4: Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel
5: Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract
6: Content of the contract and principles of interpretation
7: Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms
8: Breach of contract
9: Damages for breach of contract
10: Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies
11: Privity of contract and third party rights
12: Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility
13: Common mistake: initial impossibility
14: Misrepresentation
15: Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability
16: Illegality

Jill Poole is Deputy Dean and Professor of Commercial Law at Aston Business School, Aston University. She is also the author of Textbook on Contract Law, Contract Law Concentrate and co-author of Contract Formation and Letters of Intent.

Review(s) from previous edition

"This is a great supporting text for students new to the study of contract. Poole puts the law into context and also provides some excellent guidance to students on how to read a case - Julia Burnside, Lecturer in Law, University of Lincoln

"An enormous amount of relevant case-law is analysed, interpreted, and summarised. It breaks down complicated cases into 'bite-sized chunks'" - Adrian Chandler, Professor of Contract Law, UWE Bristol