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Principles of Contract Law

LAW302

Course CodeLAW302
ECTS

Course Description

This unit covers what is meant by a contract through to offer and acceptance and invitation to treat. Students will be introduced to key terms and how these form part of a contract in both express terms and implied terms. The unit will also cover the principles of how contracts can end, including breaching and remedies for the breach.

Course Objectives

This unit covers what is meant by a contract through to offer and acceptance and invitation to treat. Students will be introduced to key terms and how these form part of a contract in both express terms and implied terms. The unit will also cover the principles of how contracts can end, including breaching and remedies for the breach.

Key Topics

  1. LO1: Understand the principle requirements of a binding agreement
  2. LO2: Understand the principle contents of a contract
  3. LO3: Understand the principal factors that may vitiate a contract
  4. LO4: Understand how a contract may be breached

Course Outline

WeekTopics
1Formation of Contract: Offer and Acceptance
2Enforceability: Legal Intent and Enforcing Agreements
3Contractual Terms: Representations and Express Terms
4Classification of Terms and Implied Terms
5Exclusion Clauses and Statutory Controls
6Vitiating Factors: Misrepresentation and Mistake
7Vitiating Factors: Capacity, Illegality, Duress, and Undue Influence
MidtermMidterm evaluation
9Discharge of Contract
10Breach of Contract
11Remedies for Breach of Contract
12Applying Principles of Contract Law in practice: case studies
13Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
14Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
15Review and coursework completion
FinalFinal assessment and submission

Learning Outcomes

  1. LO1 Understand the principle requirements of a binding agreement
  2. 1.1 Define what a contract is.
  3. 1.2 Outline how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.
  4. 1.3 Identify how offer and acceptance may be withdrawn.
  5. 1.4 Explain how to enforce a contract.
  6. 1.5 Explain the terms invitation to treat and the intention to create legal relations.
  7. LO2 Understand the principle contents of a contract
  8. 2.1 Outline statutory express terms.
  9. 2.2 Explore how representation is different from a term.
  10. 2.5 Explore how terms may be implied in common law.
  11. 2.3 Explain how terms can be incorporated into a contract.
  12. 2.4 Explain contract conditions, warranties and innominate terms.
  13. 2.6 Evaluate the validity of exclusion clauses.
  14. LO3 Understand the principal factors that may vitiate a contract
  15. 3.1 Outline various types of contractual mistakes.
  16. 3.2 Outline different types of misrepresentation.
  17. 3.3 Explain how a contract can be discharged.
  18. 3.4 Explain how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.
  19. 3.5 Summarise how undue influence and duress may void a contract.
  20. LO4 Understand how a contract may be breached
  21. 4.1 Outline the effect that a breach has on a contract.
  22. 4.2 Describe the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.
  23. 4.3 Discuss types of contract breach, including anticipatory and repudiatory breach.
  24. 4.4 Explain the meaning of damages in relation to contracts.
  25. 4.5 Analyse what remedies are available for breach of contract.
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