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Contract Law, 2nd Edition
Chris Turner

Paperback
RRP: £16.99
ISBN: 9780340941614
ISBN-10: 0340941618

Published: 25/05/2007
Extent: 264 pages
Illustrations: 0

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Summary:
Contract Law, 2nd edition, is the ideal resource for OCR and WJEC students studying Contract Law as their A2 option and is an excellent introductory text for students of other law courses. Addressing the new 2007 specifications and assessment methods, the text provides authoritative coverage of Contract Law using an accessible and clear writing style to ensure that complex issues can be easily understood. Contract Law, 2nd edition, is filled with activities, exercises and exam questions for students of all abilities, making what can be a difficult subject area clear and comprehensive and ensuring that students obtain the best possible grade. Key cases are highlighted for quick and easy reference, and Key Facts charts are provided to help students to review and consolidate the subject areas covered. Key features: Detailed guidance on the OCR Special Study Explanation and examples of the new dilemma board Sections on legal problem solving and legal essay writing Self-assessment questions, quizzes, and other activities make the text as interactive as possible Extensive use of case notes separated from the body of the text Written by an experienced author and Chief Examiner

  • Written by the Chief Examiner of a major examining board
  • Detailed guidance on the OCR Special Study
  • Explanation and examples of the new dilemma board
  • Key sections on both legal problem solving and legal essay writing
  • Self-assessment questions, quizzes, and other activities to make the text as interactive as possible
  • Extensive use of case notes separated from the body of the text in shaded boxes

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 The origins and character of the law of contract
1.1. The development of a law of contract
1.2. The character of modern contracts
1.3. The reasons why contracts are enforced
1.4. Contracts compared with other areas of law
Chapter 2 Principles of formation of contracts: offer and acceptance
2.1. The character of agreement
2.2. The nature of offers
2.3. The rules of offer
2.4. Termination of offer
2.5. The rules of acceptance
2.6. Points for discussion
Chapter 3 Principles of formation: consideration
3.1. The nature and purpose of consideration
3.2. Defining consideration
3.3. Executory and executed consideration
3.4. The rules of consideration
Chapter 4 Principles of formation: intention to create legal relations
4.1. The two presumptions
4.2. Social and domestic agreements
4.3. Commercial and business arrangements
Chapter 5 Formalities and speciality contracts
5.1. The requirement of form
5.2. Agreements which must be created in the form of a deed to be valid
5.3. Contracts that must be in writing to be valid
5.3. Agreements needing only evidence in writing to be valid
Chapter 6 Third-party rights
6.1. The doctrine of privity of contract
6.2. The exceptions to the basic rule
6.3. The Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
Chapter 7 Capacity and incapacity
7.1. The nature of capacity
7.2. Minors’ contracts
7.3. Capacity and mentally disordered persons
7.4. Capacity and drunkenness
7.5. The capacity of corporations
Chapter 8 The contents of a contract: terms
8.1. Pre-contractual statements and representations
8.2. The process of incorporating express terms
8.3. Implied terms
8.4. The relative significance of terms
Chapter 9 The contents of a contract: exclusion clauses
9.1. Common-law control of exclusion clauses
9.2. Statutory and EC control of exclusion clauses
Chapter 10 Vitiating factors: void and voidable contracts
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Void contracts
10.3. Voidable contracts
10.4. The classes of vitiating factors
Chapter 11 Vitiating factors: misrepresentation
11.1. General
11.2. When a misrepresentation occurs
11.3. The different types of misrepresentation
11.4. Equity and misrepresentation
Chapter 12 Vitiating factors: mistake
12.1. Introduction
12.2. Common mistake
12.3. Mutual mistake
12.4. Unilteral mistake
12.5. Mistake and equity
12.6. Non est factum
Chapter 13 Vitiating factors: duress and undue influence
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Duress
13.3. Economic duress
13.4. Undue influence
Chapter 14 Vitiating factors: illegality
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Contracts void by statute
14.3. Contracts illegal by statute
14.4. Contracts void at common law
14.5. Contratcts illegal at common law
14.6. The consequences of the contract being void
14.7. The consequences of the contract being illegal
Chapter 15 Discharge of obligations
15.1. Discharge by performance
15.2. Discharge by agreement
15.3. Discharge by frustration
15.4. Discharge by breach
Chapter 16 Remedies in contract law
16.1. Limitation periods in contract law
16.2. The purpose of damages in contract
16.3. The problem of remoteness of damage in contract claims
16.4. Quantification of damages in contract claims
16.5. Other common-law remedies in contract law
16.6. The effect of speculation in contract
16.7. Equitable remedies in contract
Chapter 17 Consumer protection
17.1. General
17.2. Sale of goods and supply of goods and services
17.3. The Consumer Protection Act 1987
17.4. The Trade Descriptions Act 1968 and applying false descriptions to goods or services
Chapter 18 The Synoptic Element
18.1. The nature and purpose of synoptic assessment
18.2. OCR synoptic assessment
18.3. AQA synoptic assessment
Appendix 1 Answers to dilemma boards
Index

About the Author(s):
Chris Turner LLM is Chief Examiner for A Level law for a major examining board. He is a qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at Wolverhampton University. His other titles include Key Facts: Contract Law, Key Cases: Contract Law and Unlocking Contract Law. He is also series editor of the Key Facts, Key Cases and Unlocking the Law series, published by Hodder Arnold.

Readership:
AS/A2 level Law students

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