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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, Sales and Consumer Law (LAWS331), Insurance Law (LAWS341) and Agency (LAWS346).
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; develop an understanding of the use of negotiation in the formulation of contractual agreements and resolution of contractual disputes.
(i) LAWS101; and (ii) LAWS110 from 2012
Ursula Cheer
Jeremy Finn , Stephen Todd and Sascha Mueller
Burrows, J. F. , Finn, Jeremy., Todd, Stephen; Law of contract in New Zealand ; 3rd ed; LexisNexis NZ, 2007.
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This is a compulsory core course for the LLB degree.
Domestic fee $1,260.00
International fee $6,025.00
* 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.
Maximum enrolment is 260
For further information see Faculty of Law .