Casebook on Contract Law

Jill Poole's bestselling Casebook on Contract Law provides students with a comprehensive selection of case law, addressing all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses. Extracts have been carefully chosen from a wide range of historical and contemporary cases to illustrate the reasoning processes of the courts, and to show how legal principles develop. Cases can either be analysed and discussed in isolation or, taken as a whole, the selection of cases form chapters providing a structured overview of the modern law of contract. Online Resource Centre The casebook is fully supported by an Online Resource Centre, which provides: - Self-test questions and answers - Guidance on answering questions in contract law - Exercises and guidance on reading cases - An opportunity for students to ask the author any questions

1 - Guidance on reading cases
2 - Agreement
3 - Agreement problems
4 - Enforceability of promises: consideration and promissory estoppel
5 - Intention to be legally bound and capacity to contract
6 - Content of the contract and principles of interpretation
7 - Exemption clauses and unfair contract terms
8 - Breach of contract
9 - Damages for breach of contract
10 - Remedies providing for specific relief and restitutionary remedies
11 - Privity of contract and third party rights
12 - Discharge by frustration: subsequent impossibility
13 - Common mistake: initial impossibility
14 - Misrepresentation
15 - Duress, undue influence, and unconscionability
16 - Illegality