Details for LAW104 Contract Law 1

Agreements shape business, work and everyday life. Contract Law 1 takes you through how contracts are formed, what they mean and what happens when they fail. You’ll work through offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity, intention, terms, breach and remedies, drawing principles from leading cases and scholarship. You’ll finish able to analyse contract problems and defend sound legal positions with confidence.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: LAW104
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Clearly and coherently describe and apply the principles of contract law to analyse and resolve contract law problems. In Contract Law 1, these principles concern the following:
   • Offer and acceptance;
   • Consideration;
   • Capacity;
   • Intention to enter contractual relations;
   • Parties to the contract;
   • Terms of the contract;
   • Legality;
   • Breach of contract; and
   • Remedies
2. Extract the principles of law on which leading cases involving contract law are decided
3. Critically engage with relevant sources of law, scholarship and policy considerations to advocate and defend sound legal positions concerning contract law.
4. Reflect on the broader context within which legal issues arise to solve legal problems involving contract law.

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Subject Content

1. Introduction and course overview
2.  Offer
3.  Acceptance
4. Intention to create legal relations; capacity to contract; formalities.
5. Privity of contract
6. Consideration and estoppel
7. Express and implied terms
8. Construction Principles
9. Warranties, conditions and intermediate terms
10. Termination of contract: termination for breach; repudiation.
11. Remedies: damages
12. Subject Review
13. Examination Week

This course may be offered in the following formats

Face to Face on site

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. In-Class Test (30%)
2. Problem Question Assignment (20%)
3. Final Examination (50%)

Prescribed Text

• John W Carter, Contract Law in Australia (JW Carter Publishing 8th ed, 2022)  
• John W Carter, Nuwan Dias, John Eldridge and David Thorpe, Cases and Materials on Contract Law in Australia (LexisNexis, 7th ed, 2019)  
• Melbourne University Law Review Association, Australian Guide to Legal Citation (Melbourne University Law Review Association, 4th ed, 2018) 

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