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LA12B Law of Contract I

1. General
This course will be taught in Year I as a core subject of the LL.B. degree
programme.

2. Course Objective
The primary objective of this course is to examine the purpose and scope of the
legal protection accorded agreements. To achieve this, the course attempts to
deal with the general principles applicable to the types of bargain transactions
found in contemporary West Indian society.

3. Course Content
Contract I focuses on problems of contract formation, the doctrine of
consideration, the problem of third party beneficiaries, intention as an element in
contractual objections and the problem of determining the boundaries of
obligations created by the contracts with special reference to exemption clauses.

The topics covered are:
i. Offer and Acceptance
ii. Intention to Create Legal Relations
iii. Consideration
iv. Privity
v. Contractual Terms
vi. Exemption Clauses
4. Method of Teaching

This course will be taught by way of two lectures and one tutorial per week.
Each lecture will be of one hour duration and the tutorial will also be of one hour
duration.

5. Method of Assessment
This course will be assessed by way of a two-hour final examination at the end
of the Semester. Students will be required to answer three questions selected
from a total of six questions. The examination question paper may be divided
into two parts with students being required to answer one question from each
part.