CourseLAW403

Week1 of 16

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This week’s topics

Parties, making and communicating offers and acceptance

Parties, making and communicating offers and acceptance
The postal rule and electronic acceptance

What you will be able to do

1.1 Describe how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: describe how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.

Study materials

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Course plan

Week 1: Parties, making and communicating offers and acceptance
Week 2: Revocation of offers and withdrawal of acceptance
Week 3: Consideration, promissory estoppel and privity of contract
Week 4: Express terms and incorporation
Week 5: Exclusion and limitation clauses: common law incorporation,…
Week 6: Misrepresentation (fraudulent, negligent, innocent) and mis…
Week 7: Capacity (minors, necessaries, intoxication), statutory ill…
Midterm: Midterm evaluation
Week 9: Breach of contract: anticipatory and repudiatory breach and…
Week 10: Damages: expectation loss, market value, loss of enjoyment
Week 11: Equitable remedies (rectification, specific performance, in…
Week 12: Applying Contract Law in practice: case studies
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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