Main topics of study:

Law of Contract

Contract Formation:

• Offer & Acceptance
• Invitations to Treat
• Status of Tenders
• Consideration
• Intention to Create Legal Relations
• Contractual Capacity
• Privity of Contract

Contractual Terms & Formalities:

• Formalities
• Terms of Contract
• Express & Implied Terms
• Conditions, Innominate Terms & Warranties

Vitiating Factors:

• Mistake
• Misrepresentation
• Duress & Undue Influence
• Illegality & Invalidity

Exclusion Clauses:

• Common Law Control
• Statutory Control
• Unfair Contract Terms
• Criminal Control

Termination & Remedies:

• Performance
• Agreement
• Frustration
• Breach
• Remedies

Law of Agency:

• Role of an Agent
• Creation of an Agency
• Authority
• Duties Arising from Agency
• Principal/Agent Relationship
• Principal/Third Party Relationship
• Agency/Third Party Relationship
• Termination of Agency
• Commercial Agents

Supply of Goods & Services

Implied Conditions:

• Contract of Sale
• Right to Sell
• Sale by Description
• Satisfactory Quality
• Fitness for Purpose
• Sale by Sample
• Acceptance
• Modification of Remedies
• Exclusion of Liability

Supply of Goods & Services:

• Implied Conditions
• Implied Conditions in Services

Delivery & Payment:

• Delivery & Payment
• Remedies

Passage of Title & Risk:

• Specific, Ascertained & Unascertained Goods
• Passage of Title
• Passage of Risk
• Sale by a Non-Owner

Law of Tort

Negligence:

• Duty of Care
• Causation
• Defences
• Recoverable Damage
• Negligent Misstatement
• Vicarious Liability

Product Liability:

• American Experience
• Consumer Protection Legislation

Consumer Protection

Criminal Liability for False Statements:

• Trade Descriptions Legislation
• Prices
• Property Misdescriptions

Product Safety:

• General Product Safety Regulations
• Consumer Protection Legislation
• Health & Safety
• Legislation

Food Safety:

• Food
• Sale & Commercial Operations
• Food Safety Offences
• Notices & Orders
• Consumer Protection
• Regulation
• Codes of Practice
• Defences
• Enforcement

Weights & Measures:

• Offences of Short Weight or Measure
• Regulated Packages

Related Legislation

Legal Aspects of Outsourcing:

• Tenders
• Letters of Intent & Comfort
• Procurement Directives
• Compulsory Competitive Tendering
• Transfer of Undertakings

Competition Law:

• Competition Acts
• Fair Trading Legislation

Intellectual Property:

• Breach of Confidence & Passing Off
• Patents
• Copyright
• Designs
• Trade Marks

International Trade:

• Bills of Lading
• CIF & FOB Contracts
• Documentary Credits

Insurance:

• Types of Insurance
• Insurable Interest
• The Contract
• Role of Agents
• Claims
• Subrogation

Reading List

Main Text:

Project Management – Dennis Lock (Gower)

Alternative Text and Further Reading:

Law for Purchasing & Supply – M Griffiths & I Griffiths (Prentice Hall)