LAWS203-12W (C) Whole Year 2012

The Law of Contract

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 11 November 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 2 September 2012

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;
  •  develop an understanding of the use of negotiation in the formulation of contractual agreements and resolution of contractual disputes.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Ursula Cheer

Lecturers

Jeremy Finn , Stephen Todd and Sascha Mueller

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Midsessional Test 01 May 2012 25%
Essay 13 Jul 2012 10%
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 ; 4th ed; LexisNexis, 2012 (This text should be available at the start of the acadenic year and it is preferable that you have the 4th edition, rather than the 3rd).

Course links

Library portal

Notes

This is a compulsory core course for the LLB degree.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,311.00

International fee $6,275.00

* 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 .

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