Contract A Full Notes

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📘 CONTRACT LAW These professionally structured, exam-ready Contract A notes cover Weeks 1–13 of the course and provide clear explanations, accurate case summaries, and AGLC4-compliant references. Perfect for tutorials, problem questions, open-book exams, and quick revision. 📚 FULL TOPIC LIST (WHAT THESE NOTES COVER) 1. Foundations - How to read a case - Material facts, issues, ratio, obiter - PIRAC method 2. Formation of Contract - Essential elements - Agreement - Consideration - Intention - Certainty & completeness - Capacity 3. Agreement (Offer & Acceptance) - Objective theory of agreement (Smith v Hughes) - Offers vs invitations to treat - Unilateral contracts - Postal rule - Instantaneous communication - Termination of offers 4. Consideration - Executory and executed consideration - Adequacy and sufficiency - Past consideration - Illusory promises - Existing legal duty - Practical benefit doctrine (Williams v Roffey Bros, Musumeci v Winadell) 5. Intention to Create Legal Relations - Domestic and social agreements - Commercial agreements - Honour clauses 6. Certainty & Completeness - Vague terms - Agreements to agree - Illusory agreements - Machinery clauses (Godecke v Kirwan) 7. Capacity - Mental incapacity - Intoxication - Minors (necessaries, beneficial employment) - Companies - The Crown - Relevant legislation 8. Formalities - General common-law rule - Statutory writing requirements - Land contracts - Guarantees - ACL s 78 unsolicited agreements 9. Privity of Contract - Core doctrine - Third-party beneficiaries - Exceptions - Coulls v Bagot - Trident v McNiece - Insurance Contracts Act s 48 10. Estoppel - Promissory and proprietary estoppel - Waltons Stores v Maher elements - Remedies - Expectation relief - Minimum equity 11. Express Terms - Terms vs puffs vs representations - Determining whether statements are terms - Parol evidence rule 12. Implied Terms & Construction - Terms implied by fact, law, and statute - Construction principles - Contra proferentem - Preservation of validity 13. Classification of Terms - Conditions - Warranties - Intermediate terms - Hongkong Fir Shipping test - Koompahtoo v Sanpine 14. Exclusion Clauses - Nature of exclusion clauses - Incorporation - Signature - Notice - Course of dealing 15. Novation - Termination of original contract - Creation of new contract - Requirements 16. Mistake - Common, mutual, unilateral mistake - Key cases: McRae, Raffles v Wichelhaus, Taylor v Johnson 17. Misrepresentation - Elements - Fraudulent, negligent, and innocent misrepresentation - ACL ss 18, 29 misleading conduct - Remedies 18. Duress - Duress to person, goods, economic duress - Crescendo Management test - Remedies 19. Undue Influence - Actual and presumed influence - Key cases: Johnson v Buttress, Etridge 20. Unconscionability - Amadio special disadvantage doctrine - ACL ss 20–22 statutory unconscionability - Remedies 21. Rescission & Affirmation - Nature of rescission - Bars to rescission - Affirmation - Restitution impossible - Lapse of time - Third-party rights ⭐ WHAT YOU GET ✔ Full-course notes (17 pages) ✔ AGLC4 citations throughout ✔ Concise rule statements ✔ Integrated case summaries ✔ Perfect for problem questions and exams