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LAWS1017 – CONTRACTS I – CASE SUMMARIES

SESSION ONE – 2004

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OFFER Gibson v Manchester City Council Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co MacRobertson Miller Airline Services v Commissioner of State Taxation Australian Woollen Mills Pty Ltd v Commonwealth Offers distinguished from Invitations to Treat Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists Ltd Revocation of an Offer Goldsborough, Mort & Co v Quinn Mobil Oil Australia Ltd v Wellcome International Pty Ltd ACCEPTANCE Relationship between the Offer and Acceptance Crown v Clarke Communication of Acceptance Felthouse v Bindley Empirnal Holdings Pty Ltd v Machon Paull Partners Pty Ltd Brinkibon Ltd v Stahag Stalh Und Stahlwarenhandelsgesellschaft mbH Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corp (England) Ltd CONSIDERATION The Essential Elements Beaton v McDivitt Adequacy of Consideration Woolworths Ltd v Kelly Sufficiency of Consideration Past Consideration Roscorla v Thomas The Existing Legal Duty Rule Foakes v Beer William v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd Musumeci v Winadell Pty Ltd Wigan v Edwards INTENTION Commercial Transactions Banque Brussels Lambert SA v Australian National Industries Ltd Domestic and Social Agreements Todd v Nichol Government Agreements Administration of Papua New Guinea v Leahy Preliminary Agreements Masters v Cameron PRIVITY Identifying the Contracting Parties Coulls v Bagot’s Executor and Trustee Co Ltd Circumventing the Privity Rule Trident General Insurance Co Ltd v McNiece Bros Pty Ltd CERTAINTY Completeness Coal Cliff Collieries Pty Ltd v Sijehama Pty Ltd Certainty Upper Hunter County District Council v Australian Chilling & Freezing Co Ltd Implying Objective Standards Biotechnology Australia Ltd v Pace Whitlock v Brew Hall v Busst Agreements to Negotiate Aiton Australia Pty Ltd v Transfield Illusory Promises Meehan v Jones Godecke v Kirwan Placer Development Ltd v Commonwealth ESTOPPEL Je Mainiendrai Pty Ltd v Quaglia Waltons Stores (Interstate) Ltd v


References: Administration of Papua New Guinea v Leahy [CB-132-134] (1961) 105 CLR 6 Masters v Cameron [CB-134-137] (1954) 91 CLR 353 Coulls v Bagot’s Executor and Trustee Co Ltd [CB-262-271] (1967) 119 CLR 460
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