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Author Stewart, Andrew, 1959-

Title Contract law : principles and context / Andrew Stewart, Warren Swain, Karen Fairweather
Published Port Melbourne, Victoria : Cambridge University Press, 2019
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Description lviii, 541 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Some basic questions -- What is a contract? -- Why should promises be enforced? -- How and when did contract law develop? -- What are the sources of contract law? -- What are the boundaries of contract law? -- A law of contract or a law of contracts? -- How is this book organised? -- ch. 2 Themes and perspectives -- Contracts in practice: inequality of bargaining power -- Contracts in practice: the (ir)relevance of contract law -- From freedom of contract to welfarism -- From doctrine to discretion -- From paper to smart contracts: the rise of e-commerce -- Codification and harmonisation -- Theoretical and critical analysis -- ch. 3 Resolving contractual disputes -- Self-help -- Resolving disputes by agreement -- Assisted dispute resolution -- Taking disputes to court -- Choice of law -- ch. 4 Preparing to make a contract -- Preparing and settling the terms -- Obligations to disclose information --
Contents note continued: Other regulation of pre-contractual conduct -- Anticipated contracts that fail to materialise -- ch. 5 Formation -- Introduction -- Intention to create legal relations -- Establishing agreement -- Conditional contracts -- Consideration -- Certainty and completeness -- Capacity -- Formalities -- Vitiating factors -- ch. 6 Preliminary agreements -- Introduction -- A question of intention -- Agreements to negotiate -- ch. 7 Protecting reliance: The doctrine of estoppel -- Nature and types of estoppel -- Using equitable estoppel to enforce express or implied promises or assurances -- ch. 8 The parties to a contract -- Who are the parties to a contract? -- Conferring a benefit on a third party -- Imposing a burden on a third party -- Reform of the privity doctrine -- ch. 9 Terms and obligations -- Introduction -- Incorporation of written terms -- Treating pre-contractual statements as express terms -- Limits on express terms -- Terms implied in fact --
Contents note continued: Terms implied by custom and practice -- Terms implied by law -- Statutory obligations for the supply of goods and services -- ch. 10 Interpreting contracts -- How courts ascertain meaning -- Admissible evidence in interpretation disputes -- Principles of interpretation -- ch. 11 Limiting or extending liability -- The nature and use of exemption clauses -- Interpreting and applying exemption clauses -- Statutory controls on exemption clauses -- Guarantees -- Indemnities -- ch. 12 Performance of contractual obligations -- Standards and methods of performance -- Time of performance -- Order and completeness of performance -- Cooperation, good faith and fair dealing -- ch. 13 Varying terms -- How contracts can be varied -- The requirement for fresh consideration -- Policing variations -- Estoppel and waiver -- Rectification -- Statutory powers of variation -- ch. 14 Transferring rights and obligations -- Assignment of contractual rights --
Contents note continued: Assignment of obligations and novation -- Involuntary assignments -- Negotiable instruments -- ch. 15 Impossibility and change of circumstances -- Introduction -- Defining frustration -- Examples of frustration -- Limits on frustration -- The effects of frustration -- Is the doctrine of frustration unsatisfactory? -- ch. 16 Termination of contracts -- How and why contracts can end -- Termination for non-performance: common law rights -- Express rights to terminate -- Implied rights to terminate without cause -- Exercising a right to terminate -- Termination by agreement -- ch. 17 Consequences of termination -- Effect of termination -- Recognition and enforcement of accrued rights -- Restitutionary claims -- ch. 18 Misinformation -- Pre-contractual statements as warranties -- Estoppel -- Rescission for misrepresentation -- Damages for misrepresentation -- Statutory prohibitions on misleading or deceptive conduct -- Mistake -- ch. 19 Undue pressure --
Contents note continued: Duress -- Undue influence -- Structuring undue pressure -- ch. 20 Unconscionability and unfairness -- Unconscionable bargains -- The 'special equity' for married women -- Statutory prohibitions on unconscionable conduct -- Broader controls on unfair contracts -- ch. 21 Illegality and public policy -- Introduction -- Statutory illegality -- Public policy and the ex turpi causa principle -- Restraint of trade -- ch. 22 Enforcing a contract -- Specific performance -- Injunctions -- Recovery of debts -- Liquidated damages and penalty clauses -- ch. 23 Damages for breach of contract -- General principles -- Compensable loss -- Restrictions on recovery -- Date of assessment -- Damages and enforcement -- ch. 24 Restitutionary remedies -- Money claims -- Claims for services rendered -- Explaining restitution
Summary Contract Law: Principles and Context presents the development of contract law through a considered selection of cases that are both authoritative and used as factual examples to explain the law. The text introduces readers to the nature and range of contracts, the process for making a contract, rights and duties, adjustments to contracts, vitiating factors and unfair conduct, ending contracts, and remedies and restitution. The text considers the historical development of contracts through case law and legislation, then takes the reader to particular issues with contracts as they might arise in real life and navigates a legal pathway through them. Written in a clear and engaging style, Contract Law provides a fresh, topical and accessible account of the Australian law of contract, and is an invaluable resource for contract law students and practitioners
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Contracts.
Contracts -- Australia.
Author Swain, Warren, 1973- editor
Fairweather, Karen, editor
ISBN 9781107687486