Contract Law
Principles and Context

Provides a fresh, topical and accessible account of the Australian law of contract.

Andrew Stewart (Author), Warren Swain (Author), Karen Fairweather (Author)

9781107687486, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 June 2019

598 pages
24.6 x 17.4 x 3.2 cm, 1.07 kg

'The definitions are crisp, short and to fresh law students, a lifeline in giddying seas. This exemplifies the book's approach. The authors have resisted temptation: Contract Law: Principles and Context is largely free from qualifications, unnecessary details and hesitant explanation. The book may not be the first choice for scholars, but it is a decisive and impressively clear introduction to the Australian law of contract.' Wayne Jocic, Melbourne Law School

Contract Law: Principles and Context presents the development of contract law through a considered selection of cases that are both authoritative and used as factual examples to explain the law. The text introduces readers to the nature and range of contracts, the process for making a contract, rights and duties, adjustments to contracts, vitiating factors and unfair conduct, ending contracts, and remedies and restitution. The text considers the historical development of contracts through case law and legislation, then takes the reader to particular issues with contracts as they might arise in real life and navigates a legal pathway through them. Written in a clear and engaging style, Contract Law provides a fresh, topical and accessible account of the Australian law of contract, and is an invaluable resource for contract law students and practitioners.

Preface
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Part I. Introduction: 1. Some basic questions
2. Themes and perspectives
3. Resolving contractual disputes
Part II. Making a Contract: 4. Preparing to make a contract
5. Formation
6. Preliminary agreements
7. Protecting reliance: the doctrine of Estoppel
8. The parties to a contract
Part III. Contractual Obligations: 9. Terms and obligations
10. Interpreting contracts
11. Limiting or extending liability
12. Performance of contractual obligations
Part IV. Adjusting a Contract: 13. Varying terms
14. Transferring rights and obligations
15. Impossibility and change of circumstances
Part V. Ending A Contract: 16. Termination of contracts
17. Consequences of termination
Part VI. Vitiating Factors and Unfair Conduct: 18. Misinformation
19. Undue pressure
20. Unconscionability and unfairness
21. Illegality and public policy
Part VII. Remedies: 22. Enforcing a contract
23. Damages for breach of contract
24. Restitutionary remedies
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Contract law [LNCJ], Company, commercial & competition law [LNC], Laws of Specific jurisdictions [LN], Law [L]