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Advanced Contract Law - LAWS3025

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Contracts (LAWS1075/JURD7175) OR Contracts 2 (JURD7172/LAWS1072). Co-requisite: Resolving Civil Disputes (LAWS2371/JURD7271) OR Litigation 1 (JURD7211/LAWS2311).

Excluded: JURD7325

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course deals in depth with a selection of topics in relation to the conditionality, performance, breach and termination of contracts which are very important in commercial practice, but are necessarily dealt with briefly in the initial courses LAWS1071 Contracts 1 and LAWS1072 Contracts 2. In particular the course considers the contingency of conditions, the dependency of promises, fundamental breach, repudiation, the right to terminate and the consequences of termination.

Assessment

Class participation (20% optional)
Mid-session essay (40% optional)
Final exam (40%, or 60%, 80% or 100% depending on whether the abovementioned options are taken)

Course Texts

Prescribed

Paterson, Robertson & Duke, Contract, Cases and Materials, Chapters 20-29

Recommended

Supplementary Materials will be distributed by UNSW Law School at first seminar.

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