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Advanced Contract Law - LAWS2025
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Faculty: Faculty of Law
 
 
School:  Faculty of Law
 
 
Course Outline: See below
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 8
 
 
EFTSL: 0.16667 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: LAWS1071 & LAWS1072; or LAWS1420
 
 
Fee Band: 3 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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. Economic duress may also be covered if time permits.


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
Heffey, Patterson and Robertson, Contract, Cases and Materials Chapters 15-20

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

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