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Level 3 Diploma in Law

Breach of Contract

LAW302 · Principles of Contract Law — Week 10 of 16

CourseLAW302
Week10 of 16
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This week’s topics

Breach of Contract

  1. Nature and legal effect of contractual breach
  2. Distinguishing actual breach from anticipatory breach
  3. Repudiatory breach and the innocent party's right of election
  4. Rights and duties following termination for breach
  5. Breach of Contract | Contract Law
  6. Breach of Contract - SQE 1 Contract Law Revision
  7. Anticipatory breach - contract law www.e-lawresources.co.uk #contractlaw #breach #anticipatorybreach
  8. How are rights supported in civil cases?

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Outline the effect that a breach has on a contract.
  • 4.3 Discuss types of contract breach, including anticipatory and repudiatory breach.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: outline the effect that a breach has on a contract.

Study materials

Videos

  • Breach of Contract | Contract Law · YouTube · The Law Academy · 5 min · for registered students
  • Breach of Contract - SQE 1 Contract Law Revision · YouTube · New to Law: Study Help · 12 min · for registered students
  • Anticipatory breach - contract law www.e-lawresources.co.uk #contractlaw #breach #anticipatorybreach · YouTube · e-lawresources · 4 min · for registered students
  • How are rights supported in civil cases? · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students

Further resources

  • Business Law I Essentials 2e, ch. 7: Contract Law · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 79–86 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Formation of Contract: Offer and Acceptance
  • Week 2: Enforceability: Legal Intent and Enforcing Agreements
  • Week 3: Contractual Terms: Representations and Express Terms
  • Week 4: Classification of Terms and Implied Terms
  • Week 5: Exclusion Clauses and Statutory Controls
  • Week 6: Vitiating Factors: Misrepresentation and Mistake
  • Week 7: Vitiating Factors: Capacity, Illegality, Duress, and Undue …
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Discharge of Contract
  • Week 10: Breach of Contract
  • Week 11: Remedies for Breach of Contract
  • Week 12: Applying Principles of Contract Law in practice: case studi…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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