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Level 4 Diploma in Law

Capacity (minors, necessaries, intoxication), statutory illegality and public policy

LAW403 · Contract Law — Week 7 of 16

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Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Capacity (minors, necessaries, intoxication), statutory illegality and public policy

  1. Capacity (minors, necessaries, intoxication), statutory illegality and public policy
  2. Duress and undue influence
  3. Frustration

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Analyse how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.
  • 3.3 Assess how undue influence and duress may void a contract.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
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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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