The course is essential to students who are aspiring to become lawyers as it makes them understand the legal implication that arise from agreements and how they should be upheld. Law of contract is the base of most subjects in law. In this era of global business transactions and the rise of privatisation, studying law of contract will help in equipping students with a solid understanding of the journey through a contract, ensuring one obtains the skills to apply to real-world business scenarios.
Learning Outcomes:
1. fully appreciate the factors rendering an agreement unenforceable
2. appreciate the basis under which contractual relationships terminate and finally
3. be introduced to ways of enforcing a contractual obligation.
To achieve these expectations, students must navigate through the following course contents:
1. vitiating elements of a contract (eg mistake, misrepresentation, duress, illegality, etc)
2. Privity of contract (rule and exceptions)
3. Discharge of contract (eg, by performance, by agreement, by breach and frustration)
4. Remedies (eg. Equitable remedies, quantum meruit claims and quasi-contract)
5. Contract under customary law and Islamic law (constituents, capacity, terms, breach and remedies).
- Teacher: Haruna Hassan