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.

This casebook is a current and comprehensive collection of primary materials and commentaries covering all areas of contract law in Canada.

In distinction to other guides to contract law, this text provides a comparative analysis of the area, incorporating sources drawn from both the civil law tradition, characteristic of several nations within Continental Europe, as well as the Anglo-American common law tradition, with cases and legislation drawn from England and the United States of America.

This book allows students to learn the law of contracts by first gaining a familiarity with the substantive law. Substantive law includes the law relating to the formation of contracts, factors affecting the validity of contracts, and remedies for when a party breaches the contract.

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.

This book explains the form of the existing law of contract by relating it to its economic, legal, and sociological foundations.

With a keen focus on the rapidly evolving era of digital transactions, this new publication offers invaluable insight and direction into the emerging commercial framework for digital commerce.

Also available in print: KE850 .O45 2012 LAW (Reserve).
This essential guide helps the reader navigate the complexities of contract law. The guide explores the development of contract rights and remedies, the fundamentals of contract drafting, factors that enhance or impair the contractual relationship, and how conflicts are resolved.

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.

This edition retains all the fundamental concepts of contract law while incorporating new information, including commentary on recent changes wrought by judicial decision-makers.

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 work looks beyond the surface rules of this complex area of law to identify the underlying conflicting principles, so you're never in doubt about their implications.

The law of misrepresentation is fairly complex – though it does not fall squarely within contract law, it can have a considerable effect on a contract, in some instances making it voidable. This voidability, leading to relief through rescission, is both a cause of action and a defence. The book also examines when a misrepresentation leads to tort damages for deceit and negligent misrepresentation in contracts contexts.