Contract Law

Also available in print: KE850 .S923 2018 LAW (Reserve).
This text offers expert commentary and analysis on recent developments in Canadian contract law and on how courts have treated and interpreted contracts as a whole.

Kerr offers takes a new approach that examines contract law from a commercial perspective with a focus on helping legal professionals protect the business interests of their clients.

The book examines what circumstances lead to frustration (and which do not) and it discusses the consequences of frustration. The book also examines the use of force majeure clauses that obviate the need for the doctrine of frustration.

This book offers a big-picture overview of how contract law functions in Canada’s common law jurisdictions and how it relates to other areas of law, such as torts and restitution.

The Law of Contracts is a thorough revision of this authoritative text in Irwin Law’s Essentials of Canadian Law series. It includes discussion of recent jurisprudential developments in a variety of topics.

This book contains an appraisal of relevant Supreme Court of Canada cases decided since the last edition, including recent cases on intention, interpretation, good faith, and unconscionability.