University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law

Law of Contract (Tripos)

Syllabus
  1. Formation of a contract: offer and acceptance and contractual negotiations; certainty; intention to create legal relations; consideration; promissory estoppel; third parties.
  2. Vitiating factors: duress; undue influence; unconscionability; misrepresentation; non-disclosure; mistake.
  3. Contents of a contract: express and implied terms; interpretation; rectification; common law and statutory rules on exemption clauses and unfair terms.
  4. Discharge of contracts: performance; agreement; breach; frustration.
  5. Remedies: damages, specific remedies (actions for the price, specific performance, injunctions), account of profits following breach, recovery of money paid and recompense for goods and services.

Questions will not be set on: assignment of contractual rights; negotiability; agency; incapacity; gaming, wagering and illegality; legislation concerning ‘formalities’.