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Casebook on Contract Law
By
Jill Poole
Description
* Covers all aspects of undergraduate courses in contract law,
within a clear and logical structure that is easy for students to
follow
* Introductory chapter provides valuable guidance on how to
develop the essential skill of case-reading, offering first year
students extra advice and support
* Now in a new two-colour text design, enabling students to
differentiate easily between extracts and author commentary
* Supported by an Online Resource Centre that provides updates,
self-test questions and answers, advice on how to answer
problem-style questions, and guidance on how to read cases, ensuring
students have access to the most up-to-date information, as well as
acting as an additional learning resource
* Can be used as a traditional casebook or as a companion to
Poole\\\\\\\'s Textbook on Contract
New to this
edition
* Features many new cases including Birse Construction Ltd v
Eastern Telegraph Ltd ; McAlpine Capital Projects Ltd v Tilebox Ltd ;
Gemma Ltd v Gimson
Jill Poole\\\\\\\'s best-selling Casebook on Contract Law provides a clear
and well-structured explanation of contractual principles through a
comprehensive selection of case law, addressing all aspects
encountered on undergraduate courses. The coverage in this new
edition has been revised to incorporate all recent significant
decisions and judgments made by the House of Lords and the Court of
Appeal.
The extracts have been selected from a wide range of historical and
contemporary cases and illustrate the reasoning processes of the
court, the grounds justifying the decisions, and how legal principles
are developed. Readers can discuss and analyse individual cases
while, taken as a whole, the chapters provide a sound appreciation of
the modern law of contract. Succinct author commentary focuses the
reader on the key elements within the extracts, while
thought-provoking questions are posed throughout to develop more
in-depth analysis.
Online Resource
Centre
Student resources
- Updates
- Guidance on answering questions
- Guidance on reading cases
- Questions and answers
Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students following
the core element of contract law within their degree programmes.
Contents
1. Guidance on Reading Cases and Analysing Case Law
2. Agreement
3. Certainty and Agreement Problems
4. Consideration, Promissory Estoppel and Form
5. Intention to Create Legal Relations
6. Terms and Contractual Interpretation
7. Exemption Clauses and Unfair Contract Terms
8. Discharge for Breach of Contract
9. Remedies for Breach of Contract
10. Privity of Contract and Third Party Rights
11. Common Mistake and Frustration
12. Misrepresentation
13. Duress, Undue Influence and Inequality of Bargaining Power
14. Illegality and Capacity to Contract
Authors,
editors, and contributors
Jill Poole, Professor of Commercial Law and Deputy Director of
the Centre for Legal Research, University of the West of England
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