Coordinator:  Professor Andrew Robertson    Telephone:  83440379    Office:   Room 0730    Email:   Click here to email Andrew Robertson

 

Prerequisites and/or Corequisites

Prerequisites: Legal Method and Reasoning, Torts or equivalent subjects

Generic Skills

Description

This subject involves a study of the foundations of the law of obligations, structured around the organising principles of consent, wrongs and unjust enrichment. Topics will include:

• the nature of private law obligations and the relationship between obligations and property;
• the nature and foundations of contractual obligations,
• the formation of contracts (the requirements of agreement, consideration, intention to create legal relations, certainty and capacity);
• formalities and the creation of equitable interests in property;
• privity (by whom and against whom contractual obligations are enforceable);
• statutory wrongs (focusing on misleading or deceptive conduct in trade or commerce);
• equitable wrongs (the nature of equity, the principles of estoppel and fiduciary obligations and the creation of equitable interests in property);
• unjust enrichment (the nature of the law of restitution, money claims, claims in respect of services and defences).
  

Points: 12.5

Mode of delivery: Lectures and Tutorials

Contact hours: Lectures: 3 hours; Tutorials: 1 hour [per week]

Estimated Total Time Commitment: 144 Hours