LW101-4-FY-CO:
Contract Law
2024/25
Essex Law School
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
11 April 2024
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
LW201, LW224, LW241, LW242, LW251, LW363
LLB M100 Law,
LLB M100DE Law,
LLB M100LD Law,
LLB M100MD Law,
LLB M100MS Law,
LLB M100TD Law,
LLB M100TS Law,
LLB M101 Law (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M107 Law (Including Placement Year),
LLB M107DE Law (Including Placement Year),
LLB M120 Law (Including Year Abroad),
MLAWM199 Law,
MLAWMA98 Law (Including Placement Year),
MLAWMA99 Law (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM20 Law with Human Rights,
LLB MM21 Law with Human Rights (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM22 Law with Human Rights (Including Placement Year),
LLB MM30 Law with Human Rights (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MV06 Law with Philosophy (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MV16 Law with Philosophy,
LLB MV18 Law with Philosophy (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MV19 Law with Philosophy (Including Placement Year),
LLB ML14 Law with Politics (Including Year Abroad),
LLB ML15 Law with Politics (Including Placement Year),
LLB ML16 Law with Politics,
LLB ML26 Law with Politics (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MN00 Law with Business,
LLB MN01 Law with Business (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MN02 Law with Business (Including Placement Year),
LLB MN03 Law with Business (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MN10 Law with Finance,
LLB MN11 Law with Finance (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MN12 Law with Finance (Including Placement Year),
LLB MN13 Law with Finance (Including Foundation Year),
LLB MM00 Law with Criminology,
LLB MM01 Law with Criminology (Including Year Abroad),
LLB MM02 Law with Criminology (Including Placement Year),
LLB MM03 Law with Criminology (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M123 Licence English and French Law (Double Degree),
LLB M1Q3 Law with Literature,
LLB M1Q4 Law with Literature (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M1Q5 Law with Literature (Including Placement Year),
LLB M1Q6 Law with Literature (Including Year Abroad),
LLB M1V1 Law with History,
LLB M1V2 Law with History (Including Foundation Year),
LLB M1V3 Law with History (Including Placement Year),
LLB M1V4 Law with History (Including Year Abroad)
This full year module introduces students to fundamental aspects of contract law affecting our daily lives and the online and offline commercial world. The module introduces students to key rules and principles over the contract's life (from formation to performance and remedies).
The content of the module reflects elements of the Solicitors Qualifying Exam.
The aims of this module are:
- To enable students to understand and critically evaluate the rules and principles in their historical and contemporary context.
- To develop their ability to apply these to hypothetical legal problems reflecting real-life scenarios.
- To introduce students to contract drafting and the impact of new technologies on contract law, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Understand key aspects of contract law, including the relationship between key contract law rules and principles.
- Understand the theoretical foundations of contract law rules and principles, including in their historical and modern context.
- Identify the legal issues in hypothetical case scenarios, construct legal arguments to apply the law on the facts.
The module includes:
- Offer and acceptance
- Consideration
- Privity and rights of third parties
- Contract terms and contract drafting
- Unfair terms
- Contract law and technology
- Misrepresentation
- Undue influence
- Duress
- Mistake
- Frustration
- Breach of contract and damages
- Restitution and unjust enrichment
- Contract law values, theories, and contemporary challenges
This module will be taught via:
- Weekly 2-hour lectures and
- Weekly 1-hour tutorials.
The module teaching team will upload all relevant teaching materials on Moodle. You will find reading lists, the textbook, weekly handouts and PPS notes on Moodle. The materials in question are designed both to help you navigate the material to be covered in the lectures and tutorials and to equip you to analyse the required readings. You will be expected to have completed the required readings in advance of your tutorials. Your tutorials will enable you to discuss the material covered in lectures and the required readings, obtain feedback on your pre-class preparation and deepen your understanding of key concepts.
To help you prepare in the best possible way for your tutorials, you will be completing regular Multiple-Choice Quizzes on Moodle. The quizzes will be based on the reading set for that week so that the quiz forms part of your preparation for each tutorial. The quizzes will enable you to track your progress, understand what you are doing well, and give you clear feedback to help you manage your studies and your progress.
- Taylor, Richard D.; Taylor, Damian. (©2019) Contract law: directions, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- McKendrick, Ewan. (2018) Contract law : text, cases, and materials, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course. The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students. Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Formative Essay (LW101 Contract Law) |
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0% |
| Coursework |
Multiple Choice Questions - Continuous Assessment (LW101 Contract Law) |
|
50% |
| Coursework |
Essay (LW101 Contract Law) |
|
50% |
| Exam |
Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 180 minutes during Summer (Main Period)
|
| Exam |
Reassessment Main exam: In-Person, Open Book (Restricted), 180 minutes during September (Reassessment Period)
|
Additional coursework information
Assessment will be split as:
- 10% Multiple Choice Questions
- 30% Coursework (essay)
- 60% in person restricted materials exam.
This will allow students to develop there understanding of the module through continuous feedback.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Nikhil Gokani, email: nikhil.gokani@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Nikhil Gokani, Dr Andrea Fejos, Dr Godswill Agbaitoro
Law UG Education Administrators: lawschoolug@essex.ac.uk
Yes
No
No
Dr Mateja Durovic
Kings College London
Reader in Law
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
Essex Law School
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