Carter’s Guide to New Zealand Contract Law (eBook)

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Carter’s Guide to New Zealand Contract Law assists in the identification, understanding and application of both the general and specific principles of contract law in New Zealand.

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Carter’s Guide to New Zealand Contract Law is a clearly written and user-friendly text, making contract law easy to understand and apply. It illustrates particular issues by reference to decided cases (including case studies), hypotheticals and sample contracts. It simplifies difficult cases, is logically structured, fully footnoted and has a comprehensive index as well as featuring quick quizzes and questions and answers for each chapter to enable students to test their understanding of the topic.

Adapted from the third edition of leading Australian text Carter’s Guide to Australian Contract Law by authors John Carter and John Ren, Carter’ s Guide to New Zealand Contract Law is an invaluable guide to the complexities of contract law for New Zealand commercial law students.

Features

  • ‘How to’ chapter devoted to a discussion of how to draft a contract, answer exam questions, etc
  • Glossary of contract terms
  • Sample contracts
  • End of chapter ‘quick quizzes’ to reinforce student learning
  • Bibliography and abbreviations
  • Detailed problems on every chapter and worked solutions are included in the book

Related Titles

  • Burrows, Finn and Todd, Law of Contract in New Zealand, 5th ed. 2015
  • Walker, Student Companion: Contract Law, 6th ed. 2014
  • Adams and Drake, Q&A Contract Law, 3rd ed. 2014
  • Carter, Contract Law in Australia, 6th ed. 2012

Featured authors

Emeritus Professor John Carter
John Ren

Emeritus Professor Emeritus Professor John Carter

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John Ren

John Ren is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland, and is enrolled as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. He has a LLB (hon) from the University of Auckland and PhD from the University of Sydney. After practising law for a couple of years, he started his academic career at the University of Auckland in 2005. His main research and teaching interest is contract law. He has regularly published articles in a wide range of New Zealand and international law journals.

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Table of contents

The book is divided into 10 parts, representing the key questions for students and teachers of contract law:

 
Part A: — What is Contract Law?

 

     
  1. Introduction

    2.  

 
Part B: — Is There a Contract?

 

     
  1. Contract Formation

    2.  
  2. Consideration

    3.  
  3. Uncertainty and Conditional Contracts

    4.  
  4. Intention to Create Legal Relations

    5.  
  5. Pre-contractual Liability

    6.  

 
Part C: — What Are the Terms of the Contract?

 

     
  1. Terms Expressly Agreed

    2.  
  2. Terms Impliedly Agreed and Consumer Guarantees

    3.  
  3. Incorporated Terms

    4.  

 
Part D: — What Do the Terms Mean?

 

     
  1. Principles of Construction

    2.  
  2. Exclusion Clauses

    3.  

 
Part E: — Who Can Enforce the Contract?

 

     
  1. Capacity and Parties

    2.  
  2. Privity of Contract

    3.  

 
Part F: — Has the Contract Been Performed?

 

     
  1. Performance of the Contract

    2.  
  2. Breach of Contract

    3.  

 
Part G: — Has the Contract Been Prematurely Discharged?

 

     
  1. Bases for Discharge

    2.  
  2. Discharge for Breach of Term

    3.  
  3. Discharge for Repudiation

    4.  
  4. Discharge for Delay

    5.  
  5. Discharge by Frustration

    6.  
  6. Consequences and Scope of Discharge

    7.  

 
Part H: — Has the Contract Been Rescinded?

 

     
  1. Bases for Rescission

    2.  
  2. Misleading Conduct

    3.  
  3. Mistake

    4.  
  4. Improper Pressure

    5.  
  5. Unconscionable Conduct and Unfair Terms

    6.  

 
Part I: — What Remedies Are Available?

 

     
  1. Damages for Breach of Contract

    2.  
  2. Damages for Misleading Conduct

    3.  
  3. Specific Performance and Injunction

    4.  
  4. Restitution

    5.  
  5. Impact of Discharge on Remedies

    6.  

 
Part J: — What Defences May be Raised?

 

     
  1. Defences in Contract Law

    2.  
  2. Invalid Exercise of Rights

    3.  
  3. Illegality

    4.  
  4. Lack of Writing

    5.  

 
Part K: — How Do I Do It?

 

     
  • HT: The How to Chapter

    •  
  • SC: Sample Contracts

    •  
  • QQ: Quick Quiz Answers

    •  
  • PQ: Problem Questions

    •  
  • PS: Problem Solutions

    •

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