Cheshire, Fifoot, and Furmston's Law of Contract


Book Description

"[This book provides an] account of the principles of the law of contract with...analysis and insights...Each topic is clearly signposted with summaries, introductory text and sub-headings for ease of navigation throughout the book. Numerous references to additional primary and secondary sources take the reader even further into the subject."--




Anson's Law of Contract


Book Description

This edition provides an authoritative and detailed account of contract law. It is essential reading for any student of contract law, and a valuable source of reference for practitioners and academics.







Electronic Contracts


Book Description

Electronic Contracts: Principles from the Common Law identifies issues of contract law that are uniquely problematic for electronic contracts. In this new book, the author discusses the most important appellate decisions from other common law jurisdictions and seeks to provide the reader with an understanding of how these decisions may influence the development of the law here in Australia. The book examines the extent to which the common law applies familiar contract law principles to unfamiliar problems, such as whether sufficient notice of terms can be given by hyperlink. It also examines the extent to which the common law may expand familiar principles to fit unfamiliar problems. This book will be of immeasurable assistance to legal practitioners litigating and drafting electronic contracts, as well as to practitioners, academics, and students interested in the legal problems arising from the new information technologies. Important Features: · Detailed and scholarly coverage of the topic · Applies a comparative approach · Author considers over 150 common law electronic contract cases at appellate level




Contract


Book Description

This casebook on contract comprises a wide selection of cases and materials that illustrate the substantive law and places it in its legal and commercial context. It demonstrates how the rules work both inside and outside the courtroom.




Powell-Smith and Furmston's Building Contract Casebook


Book Description

This well established reference book brings together leading cases on building contracts to illustrate legal principles. It provides a statement of the principle established, a summary of the facts and the decision and, for most cases, a verbatim extract of the judgment. The latest edition includes a number of new cases since the last edition was published in 1999.




Contract Formation


Book Description

Providing a practical analysis of the legal principles which govern the formation of contracts in English law (with additional authorities from the Commonwealth), this work on contract formation offers those involved in litigation and in drafting contracts a guide to the application of those principles in practice.




Implied Terms in English Contract Law


Book Description

This book is the leading account of contract law in England and Wales in relation to implied terms. Implied terms are not only frequently of great importance in litigation, but can assist business parties in planning contracts effectively by allowing them to identify issues over which they do not need to negotiate because they would be content with the terms the law would imply. Distinct commercial advantages of this approach can include savings of management time in negotiating and avoiding trade-off costs demanded by counterparties in exchange for agreeing an express term.




The Law of Contract


Book Description

Updates the Law of Contract to 1 January 1993 for legal practitioners. Includes tables of cases and statutes, page-referenced to the main text. The authors are both professors of law at the Australian National University.




The Law of Contract


Book Description

The second edition of this successful work brings the coverage up-to-date with all key developments and relevant changes since 1998. It provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of all aspects of the law of contract. It differs to other texts on the topic by offering a fresh, new approach. Analysing the current law, it also highlights possible future developments. Accessible and authoritative, it is designed specifically to meet the needs of the modern practitioner.