Contract Law Weekly Notes

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Exam-ready, weekly notes for Contract Law. Covers all 12 weeks of lectures, plus prescribed reading assigned each week. Achieved a HD result (90). Week 1: Formation of a Contract — Enforceability, doctrine of privity, offer vs. invitation to treat. Week 2: Offer and Acceptance — Termination of offer, revocation, acceptance rules, postal acceptance rule, electronic contracts. Week 3: Intention to Create Legal Relations — Presumptions, domestic vs. commercial agreements, honour clauses, letters of comfort. Week 4: Capacity to Contract — Minors, mental disability/intoxication, foreign nationals, corporations, bankrupts. Week 5: Consideration — Adequacy and sufficiency, promissory/equitable estoppel, Waltons Stores v Maher. Week 6: Formalities, Privity of Contract & Contractual Assignment — Void/voidable/unenforceable contracts, Statute of Frauds, novation. Week 7: Terms of the Contract — Express vs. implied terms, parol evidence rule, collateral contracts, effect of signing a document. Week 8: Construction of Contractual Terms & Implied Terms — Objective intention, business efficacy, officious bystander test, implied terms by statute/custom, good faith. Week 9: Exemption, Exclusion & Limitation Clauses — Incorporation, reasonable notice, contra proferentem, four corners rule. Week 10: Avoidance of Contract: Misrepresentation & Misleading/Deceptive Conduct — Fraudulent/negligent/innocent misrepresentation, remedies, ACL s 18. Week 11: Avoidance of Contract: Mistake — Common, mutual, and unilateral mistake, non est factum. Week 12: Avoidance of Contract: Illegality — Statutory and common law illegality, restraint of trade.