Unit information: Law of Contract in 2010/11

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Unit name Law of Contract
Unit code LAWD10008
Credit points 20
Level of study C/4
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Ms. Jennie Reed
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department University of Bristol Law School
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

This unit covers the formation of contracts, their contents, vitiating elements, discharge, and remedies. Topics covered include: offer and acceptance; consideration and promissory estoppel; intention to create legal relations; express and implied terms, including exclusion clauses (outline only); misrepresentation (outline only); mistake; frustration; improper pressure; performance and breach; remedies (outline only).