This course aims to enable students to:

• acquire a strong foundation in the principles and doctrines of contract law;
• apply contract law principles and doctrines to solve problems and resolve disputes;
• critically evaluate contract law principles and doctrines;
• discover relationship between different contract law components: formation, content, vitiating factors, discharge and remedies for breach;
• assess how contractual obligations affect our daily lives; and
• develop an attitude of critical and reflective learning.

Continuous Assessment: 40%

Examination: 60%

Examination Duration: 2 hours

Min. Continuous Assessment Passing Requirement: 40%

Min. Examination Passing Requirement: 40%

Examination:

Students' ability to explain clearly contract law principles and doctrines will be tested.

Students' ability to analyse facts, identify legal issues and apply legal rules and principles to hypothetical scenarios will be tested.

Students' ability to critically analyse and evaluate legal principles and doctrines will be tested.

The use of Generative AI tools is not allowed.

Applicable to students admitted before Semester A 2022/23 and in Semester A 2024/25 & thereafter

To pass this course, students must obtain an aggregate mark of 40% and a minimum of 40% in each of the continuous and the examination elements of the assessment.  Continuous assessment for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination.

Further information about continuous assessment tasks, including the submission schedule, will be provided by the course leader.

The duration of the open book examination will be 2 hours.

To achieve all ILOs of this course, students are strongly encouraged to attend and participate actively in all lectures and tutorials.

Applicable to students admitted from Semester A 2022/23 to Summer Term 2024

To pass this course, students must obtain an aggregate mark of 50% and a minimum of 50% in each of the continuous and the examination elements of the assessment.  Continuous assessment for this purpose means those ways in which students are assessed otherwise than by the end of session examination.

Further information about continuous assessment tasks, including the submission schedule, will be provided by the course leader.

The duration of the open book examination will be 2 hours.

To achieve all ILOs of this course, students are strongly encouraged to attend and participate actively in all lectures and tutorials.

Students who have taken a contract law course during their LLB degree, which was obtained from institutions in a common law jurisdiction, are not allowed to take this course.