LAWS203-16W (C) Whole Year 2016

The Law of Contract

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2016
End Date: Sunday, 13 November 2016
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 4 March 2016
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 2 September 2016

Description

The general principles of governing the formation of contracts, vitiating elements, breach of contract and remedies.

Contract Law is a mix of common law and statute; most of the statutes we will study are fundamental and are unique to New Zealand.  The course therefore provides a valuable opportunity to compare the contrasting approaches of common law and statute.

Contract is a very large subject and it is impossible in one year to teach all aspects of it.  This course, therefore, is confined to general principles.  In later subjects in the degree various aspects are dealt with in more specific detail: for example, Commercial Law I: Sales and Consumer Law (LAWS331), Insurance Law (LAWS341) and Agency (LAWS346).

Learning Outcomes

  • The objectives of the course are to assist the student to:
  •  acquire knowledge and understanding of the general principles of contract law;
  •  understand and apply those principles to particular situations and to particular types of contract;
  •  consider critically issues of principle and policy raised by the present law and its operation in practice, and, consequently, to consider whether reform is desirable;
  •  develop skills in legal analysis and reasoning;

Prerequisites

Timetable Note

TUTORIALS
Tutorials in LAW 203 will be held according to the timetable you will be given at the start of Term One.  Enrolment in Tutorials will be advised via email closer to the start of the course.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Matthew Barber

Lecturers

Stephen Todd and Christian Riffel

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Midsessional Test 20%
Essay 15 Jul 2016 15%
Final Examination 65%


The course may be assessed by way of a midsessional test, a compulsory essay and a final examination.

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Burrows, JF, Finn, Jeremy and Todd, Stephen; Law of Contract in New Zealand ; 5th ed; LexisNexis, 2016.

Course links

Library portal

Notes

This is a compulsory core course for the LLB degree.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,519.00

International fee $6,900.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 250

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All LAWS203 Occurrences

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