COURSE DESCRIPTION
The contract law course intended to deal with matters related to private agreements including principles and procedures governing such agreements as well as remedies available to the parties in the event of a breach. The course should enable candidates understand the general principles of contract law, which in turn, constitute the foundation for most business –related laws.
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of the course, students shall be able:
- To enable candidates,
acquire knowledge, skills and tools on various aspects of the law of contract
and its application.
- To
introduce students to historical background to an institution known contract
- To impact
knowledge on the sources of contracts law
- To explain
and discuss the modalities of concluding a contract
- To Introduce
students to the law relating to formation of an agreement especially the
provision of law of Contract Ordinance, Cap, 433
- To explain
the importance & rationale of consideration in a contract
- To give a
general definition of the term consideration
COURSE CONTENT
- Development
of the law of contract;
- General principles and formation of contract –offer, acceptance, parties,
- Intention to create legal relations,
- Capacity to contract, consideration
- Validity of
contract-free consent, unenforceable, void, voidable and illegal agreements;
privity of contract
- performance;
discharge of contract and contract remedies
- Emerging issues in contracts such as electronic contract (online agreements),
- Offshore
agreements.
COMPULSORY READINGS
- Beale Bishop &
Furmston: Contract Cases & Materials (Latest Edited)
- Beatson, Sir Jack,
Q,C., Anson’s Law of Contract, 28th Edn, OUP, 2002
- Cheshire &
Fitfoot: Law of Contract (Latest Edition)
OPTIONAL READING
- Cunnington, R.
Stone, Text, Cases and Materials on Contract Law, Routledge-Cavendish, 2007
- Hodgin R.W., Law of
Contract in East Africa, Kenya Literature Bureau, 1975.
- Ian A., Studies in
Contract Law, 7th Edn., Foundation Press, 2008