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.

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

 

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Emeritus Professor John Carter
John Ren

Emeritus Professor John Carter

Emeritus Professor John Carter is Australia's leading authority on contract law and the author of several highly regarded works on Australian and English law, including Carter's Breach of Contract, Contract Law in Australia, The Construction of Commercial Contracts and Carter on Contract. Prior to his recent retirement he had taught contract and commercial law subjects for over 30 years at the University of Sydney.

Professor Carter is currently a consultant to Herbert Smith Freehills and General Editor of the Journal of Contract Law. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.

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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

 Part B: — Is There a Contract?

 2: Contract Formation

 3: Consideration

 4: Uncertainty and Conditional Contracts

 5: Intention to Create Legal Relations

 6: Pre-contractual Liability

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

 7: Terms Expressly Agreed

 8: Terms Impliedly Agreed and Consumer Guarantees

 9: Incorporated Terms

 Part D: — What Do the Terms Mean?

 10: Principles of Construction

 11: Exclusion Clauses

 Part E: — Who Can Enforce the Contract?

 12: Capacity and Parties

 13: Privity of Contract

 Part F: — Has the Contract Been Performed?

 14: Performance of the Contract

 15: Breach of Contract

 Part G: — Has the Contract Been Prematurely Discharged?

 16: Bases for Discharge

 17: Discharge for Breach of Term

 18: Discharge for Repudiation

 19: Discharge for Delay

 20: Discharge by Frustration

 21: Consequences and Scope of Discharge

 Part H: — Has the Contract Been Rescinded?

 22: Bases for Rescission

 23: Misleading Conduct

 24: Mistake

 25: Improper Pressure

 26: Unconscionable Conduct and Unfair Terms

 Part I: — What Remedies Are Available?

 27: Damages for Breach of Contract

 28: Damages for Misleading Conduct

 29: Specific Performance and Injunction

 30: Restitution

 31: Impact of Discharge on Remedies

 Part J: — What Defences May be Raised?

 32: Defences in Contract Law

 33: Invalid Exercise of Rights

 34: Illegality

 35: Lack of Writing

 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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