Poole's Casebook on Contract Law

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Robert Merkin KC is Professor of Law, University of Reading; Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Exeter; and Special Counsel to Duncan Cotterill. Robert has written a number of texts and articles on contract, insurance and arbitration. He is co-editor of the Lloyd's Law Reports. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (honoris causa) in 2015 and was awarded a higher doctorate by Cardiff University in the same year. In 2018 Rob became Honorary Life President of the International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA). He has co-edited the book Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws (Routledge, 2018).

Séverine Saintier is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Cardiff. She is currently co-I with Exeter law colleague Dr Vessio in the externally funded and multidisciplinary project on circularity and the blockchain (https://circularrevolution.wales/about/) with Exeter Business School, Swansea University and Riversimple. She has co-edited Vulnerable Consumers and the Law, Consumer Protection and Access to Justice (Routledge, 2020) and written a number of articles for leading journals including the Journal of Business Law and the IEuropean Review of Private Law. Séverine is co-author with Robert of the privity chapter in Essays in Memory of Professor Jill Poole: Coherence, Modernisation and Integration in Contract, Commercial and Corporate Laws (Routledge, 2018).

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All the cases you need, together with the tools to understand them. Poole's Casebook on Contract Law takes a uniquely supportive approach, to give students the confidence to engage with and analyse judgments

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All the cases you need, together with the tools to understand them. Poole's Casebook on Contract Law takes a uniquely supportive approach, to give students the confidence to engage with and analyse judgments

Contenu

• 1: Guidance on reading cases

• Part 1 Formation

• 2: Agreement

• 3: Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel

• 4: Intention to be legally bound, formalities and capacity to contract

• Part 2 Content, Interpretation, Performance and Privity

• 5: Content of the contract and principles of interpretation

• 6: Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms

• 7: Privity of contract and third party rights

• Part 3 Vitiating Factors

• 8: Mistake

• 9: Misrepresentation

• 10: Duress, undue influence, and unconscionable bargains

• 11: Illegality

• Part 4 Performance and Termination of Contract

• 12: Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility

• 13: Breach of contract

• 14: Damages for breach of contract

• 15: Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies