Unit information: Restitution in 2012/13

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Unit name Restitution
Unit code LAWD30008
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Professor. McMeel
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Law of Contract; Advanced Contract and Tort; Law of Property I; Law of Property II
Co-requisites

None
School/department University of Bristol Law School
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

Introduction to the law of unjust enrichment; enrichment at the claimant's expense; selected grounds for restitution; mistake, ignorance and failure of consideration; selected defences; change of position and estoppel, bona fide purchase, ministerial receipt, and passing on; the form of restitutionary remedy; personal and proprietary?

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