Module Code - Title:
LA4111
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CONTRACT LAW 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
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Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
To provide the legal basis for the creation and enforcement of contracts and to examine what restrictions exist regarding freedom to contract.
Syllabus:
Formation of contracts: offer and acceptance, intention, doctrine of consideration. Formal and evidentiary requirements: void, voidable and unenforceable contracts. Construction/interpretation of contracts: intention, parol evidence, express and implied terms. Public interest restrictions on contractual freedom: capacity, illegality, privity, competition policy, doctrine of restraint of trade, consumer protection.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
On successful completion of this module, students will be able to:
- Identify the key elements in establishing the formation of a contract through agreement.
- Specify the requirements that convert an agreement into an enforceable contract.
- Outline the written formalities required in certain types of enforceable agreements.
- Differentiate the capacity of legal and natural persons to enforce agreements that they have entered into.
- Distinguish the rights of third parties to enforce contracts from the rights of the parties to enforce that contract.
- Critique the limits of those agreements that can be enforced through the legal system.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
n/a
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
n/a
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Module Leader:
Luke.Danagher@ul.ie