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Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xxii
Table of cases xxiii
Table of statutes xlii
Table of statutory instruments xlvii
1 Guidance on reading cases 1
2 Agreement 17
3 Agreement problems 64
4 Enforceability of promises: Consideration and promissory estoppel 125
5 Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract 177
6 Content of the contract and principles of interpretation 200
7 Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms 272
8 Breach of contract 329
9 Damages for breach of contract 380
10 Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies 473
11 Privity of contract and third party rights 499
12 Discharge by frustration: Subsequent impossibility 551
13 Common mistake: Initial impossibility 580
14 Misrepresentation 611
15 Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability 678
16 Illegality 737
Index
781
Detailed contents
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xxii
Table of cases xxiii
Table of statutes xlii
Table of statutory instruments xlvii
1 Guidance on reading cases 1
A) Decide which case(s) to read 1
B) Use the citation to find the report of the case 2
C) Note the full case name and court 2
D) Consider the presentation of case reports 2
A) Catchwords 4
B) Facts 4
C) Decision 4
D) Note the facts 5
E) Decision at first instance 5
F) Decision of the Court of Appeal 5
G) Judgments 6
H) Notes on the decision and the judgments 12
I) General notes on the legal principles in the case 13
2 Agreement 17
A) Objectivity prevails 17
B) Subjectivity has some relevance 17
A) Advertisements 22
B) Display of goods 23
C) Tenders 26
D) Auction sales 30
A) The mirror image rule 33
B) Offeror prescribes the method of acceptance 39
C) Acceptance must be made in response to the offer 40
D) Communication of the acceptance to the offeror 42
A) Communication of the revocation 55
B) Revocation of a unilateral offer 58
C) Communication of revocation of unilateral offers 63
3 Agreement problems 64
A) Vagueness 64
B) Severing a meaningless clause 67
C) Incompleteness 68
D) Conclusion of no contract’ and payment for performance 77
A) Mutual mistake 84
B) Unilateral mistake 86
C) Unilateral mistake as to identity 90
A) Rectification 110
B) The plea of non est factum 122
4 Enforceability of promises: Consideration and promissory estoppel
125
section 1 Consideration
A) What is consideration? 125
B) Consideration distinguished from a condition imposed on recipients of gifts 125
C) Consideration must be sufficient, but need not be adequate 127
D) Part payment of a debt 147
A) Origins of the doctrine 155
B) When will the doctrine operate and in what way? 157
C) How far can the doctrine be extended? 169
5 Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract 177
A) Domestic and social agreements 177
B) Commercial agreements 181
C) A different approach? 191
A) Contracts for necessaries 196
B) Beneficial contracts of service 197
C) Contracts involving continuing obligations and the ability to repudiate
during minority 198
D) Restitution by the minor 199
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6 Content of the contract and principles of interpretation 200
A) Accepting responsibility or advising on verification 200
B) Importance attached test 202
C) Special knowledge of the statement maker 203
A) The parol evidence rule 209
B) The effect of signature 214
A) Reasonable notice 218
B) Course of dealing 229
C) Common understanding of the parties 231
A) Terms implied at common law by the courts 233
B) Terms implied by statute: B2B (business to business contracts) which are outside
the CRA 2015 254
C) Terms implied by statute: B2C (trader and consumer) contracts within the CRA 2015 256
sKenoNs Interpretation
A) West Bromwich: Contextual interpretation in accordance with principles
of commercial common sense 258
B) Linguistic mistakes and language having more than one potential meaning 260
C) The primacy of the natural meaning of the words used: Arnold v Britton 263
D) Admissibility of pre-contractual negotiations 265
Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms
slot ion i The general approach to exemption clauses
272
si:c i ion’ 2 Requirements that must he satisfied before an exemption
clause can be relied upon
A) Contra proferentem 274
B) Liabilityfornegligence 275
C) Limitation clauses 281
D) Inconsistent terms 282
E) Fundamental breach 283
A) Scope of UCTA1977 288
B) Basic scheme of UCTA 1977 296
C) Negligence liability (s. 2) 296
D) Contractual liability 297
E) The reasonableness requirement 300
A) Background to, and the general scope of, the Act 314
B) When does the Act apply? 314
C) The assessment for fairness and terms and notices which are excluded
from that assessment 316
D) Case law explaining the operation of the Unfair Terms in Consumer
Contracts Regulations 319
8 Breach of contract 329
section* i Absolute and qualified contractual obligations
A) Termination for repudiatory breach 331
B) The meaning of‘termination 333
C) Affirmation 334
A) Is the term a condition? 337
B) More flexibility at a price: Innominate or intermediate terms 345
C) The timing of the test for repudiatory breach and the multi-factorial assessment 352
A) Avoiding the entire obligation rule* 355
A) What will constitute renunciation? 359
B) The election 361
C) Affirmation 362
D) Termination 378
9 Damages for breach of contract
■’section i The aim of contractual damages
380
section2 Expectation loss
A) Measurement: Difference in value 381
B) Measurement: Cost of cure 382
sections Wasted expenditure
A) Where expectation of profit is too speculative 389
B) Limitation on recovery of wasted expenditure damages 391
C) Burden of proof in wasted expenditure claims 397
section 5 Causation and contributory negligence .....:
A) Causation 412
B) Contributory negligence 413
section6 Remoteness of damage ^
A) Normal and abnormal loss 417
B) A new approach to remoteness in contract? 426
section? Mitigation
A) Reasonable steps 435
B) What if the reasonable steps increase the loss? 436
C) Avoided loss and accounting for benefits 436
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sections Non-pecuniary loss
A) Damages for disappointment and distress 437
B) Damages for loss of reputation 453
section ; Agreed damages clauses
A) Liquidated damages and penalty clauses 456
10 Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies 473
section j Claiming an agreed sum
A) If damages are an adequate remedy, specific performance is not available 474
B) Supervision 474
C) Contracts for personal services 478
A) Enrichment by subtraction 480
B) The account of profits and Wrotham Park damages 482
11 Privity of contract and third party rights
499
section i Origins of the privity doctri ne and its relationship with consideration
section 2 Reform of the privity
Act 1999
A) Case law interpretation of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999,
s. l(l)(b) and (2) 503
B) Section 1(3) 508
section i Agency
A) Can a third party rely on the protection of an exemption clause? 510
B) The technicalities 512
section -i The collateral contract
section 5 Trusts of contractual obligations
section 6 Action by the contracting party as a means of avoiding privity
A) Specific performance 520
B) Promisee’s action for damages 522
A) Exemption clauses and bailment 544
B) Restrictions on the use of chattels 547
12 Discharge by frustration: Subsequent impossibility 551
section i The frustration doctrine: Discharge for subsequent impossibility
A) Assuming the risk 551
B) Event occurs as a result of the fault of one of the parties 551
A) The implied term theory 555
B) The construction theory and events foreseen 556
section* a Frustrating events
A) Impossibility 560
B) Supervening illegality 565
C) Frustration of the common purpose of the parties 565
A) At common law 570
B) The Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 571
13 Common mistake: Initial impossibility 580
A) Express allocation of the risk 580
B) Implied allocation of risk 582
C) Event occurs as a result of the fault of one of the parties 583
A) The implied term theory 584
B) The construction theory 586
A) Res extincta 588
B) Mistakes as to quality 589
14 Misrepresentation 611
A) Unambiguous false statement 612
B) Offact 616
C) Induces the other party to contract 619
A) Limits to the right to rescind 621
A) Fraudulent misrepresentation: The tort of deceit 629
B) Negligent misrepresentation 648
C) Section 2(2) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967: Damages in lieu of rescission 660
A) Distinguish B2B (business to business) and B2C (trader to consumer) contracts 668
B) Clauses that purport to exclude liability for fraud 668
C) The scope of s. 3 669
15 Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability 678
A) Duress to the person 680
B) Duress to property 681
C) Economic duress 682
A) Types of undue influence 695
B) Actual undue influence 704
C) Presumed (or evidential) undue influence: Protected relationships 706
D) Presumed (or evidential) undue influence: Other cases established on the facts 706
E) Undue influence exercised by a third party 713
F) The effect of undue influence 729
A) Protection for the poor and ignorant 730
B) The relationship between undue influence and unconscionability 733
16 Illegality 737
A) Contracts prohibited by statute 738
B) Contracts that are illegal in their performance 741
section s Contracts void on grounds of public policy: Contracts in restraint
A) Basic principles 748
B) Covenants between employer and employee 749
C) Exclusive dealing agreements 752
D) Exclusive service agreements 755
E) Severance of the objectionable parts of covenants 757
A) General rule: Not recoverable 759
B) Recovery if not in pari delicto 759
C) Withdrawal before wholly or partially performing (the doctrine of‘locus poenitentiae) 759
D) Recovery if no reliance on the illegal contract 760
E) The presumption of advancement and using locus poenitentiae to rebut it 764
F) The Law Commission and reform 773
G) The nature of the illegality doctrine 774
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