ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all‚ I would like to say thank you express to all the lecturers for the course of Master of Science (Construction Contract Management)‚ especially my supervisor – Encik Norazam Othman‚ for their guidance during the writing of this master project. Without their supervision and advice‚ this project could not be completed on time. Secondly‚ I would like to express my gratitude to my dearest parents and brother for their support and advice during these few months. Not
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Bibliography: * Poole J (2010) textbook on Contract Law. 10th ed . Oxford OUP * Richards P (2011) Law of Contract ‚ 10th ed. Essex. Pearson. * Poole J (2010) Casebook on Contract 10th ed‚ Oxford. OUP * www.uwl.ac.uk/lrs/elec/law.html
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CONTRACTS OUTLINE Prof. Page – Contracts I – Fall 2011 |CONSIDERATION | - A legal contract only exists when there is an exchange – whether that’s a promise for a promise‚ performance for a promise‚ etc… this is called consideration. The promises/performance have to be influencing the other party to act/promise. *i.e. the ‘fuzzy coughdrop’ rule* i. RESTATEMENT
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Contract Law Cases The Offer Meeting of minds: Clarke v Earl of Dunraven and Mount Earl: Yacht races. Letters sent in Communication (in writing‚ speech and conduct): Carlil v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co: pay back 100 if you get influenza. Deposit 1000 The Acceptance: Strictly in response to
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freedom to choose to enter into a contract. Under such circumstances the contract is voidable at the instance of the innocent party. Its application used to be restricted to contracts entered into as a consequence of a threat. Originally it was held that the threats to person’s goods could not amount to duress‚ but a doctrine of economic duress has now been developed by the courts. The effect of the doctrine stated that an abuse of economic power can render a contract invalid‚ following lord denning’s
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The case scenario starts off by stating that two employees of the hospital engaged in an exclusive contract. Since Ortiz agreement was to provide services to individuals in rural communities it ended up lowering the fees for the anesthesiologist so he decided to renegotiate his contract with the hospital which breached his original contract between the two of them causing the anesthetist services with the hospital. In turn leading to a lawsuit filed sharing that there was a violation made regarding
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Facts: Company Star Boat employed Tom as the manager for marketing and sales department. Being an agent for Star Boat‚ Tom frequently concluded contracts with a number of suppliers for acquiring certain parts to manufacture boats. Smooth Sailing was one of the suppliers. Tom resigned from Star Boat in July 2012 upon being offered a better position in Star Ferry. However‚ he acquired 4‚000 parts from Smooth Sailing in August and manager of Smooth Sailing did not notice that in the contract Tom indicated
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2nd of feb CASES MALLIK V BCC: Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA [1997] UKHL 23 is a leading English contract law and UK labour law case‚ which confirmed the existence of the implied term of mutual trust and confidence in all contracts of employment. Facts: Mr Malik and Mr Mahmud both worked for the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. BCCI went insolvent due to massive fraud‚ connection with terrorists‚ money-laundering‚ extortion and a raft of other criminal
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Lecture 14 Tort Re Ipsa Loquitur & Defence to Negligence res ipsa loquitur- the facts speak for themselves It means that the plaintiff can prima facie establish negligence where the facts are so obvious that somebody must be negligent otherwise the accident would not have happen. In the common law of negligence‚ the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (Latin: the thing speaks for itself) states that the elements of duty of care and breach can be sometimes inferred from the very
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Construction Contracts Introduction For this assignment the writer is going to discuss the nature and types of construction contracts and will explain the legal responsibilities of the various parties involved in the design and the construction process. Using different types of sources an explanation to the basic principles of contract law and how they apply. From doing this there will then be an explanation to what extent standard forms of contract are special types of contract. Contract that has
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