Australian Law of Contract (Priestley 11 — Contracts)

Study content for Australian Law of Contract (Priestley 11 — Contracts): notes, practice MCQs and flashcards across 6 syllabus topics. This is AI-generated draft content — citations have not yet been independently verified.

Syllabus

• FormationTopic

  Offer and acceptance (including postal rule, electronic contracts) · Consideration (past consideration, pre-existing duty, practical benefit — Williams v Roffey) · Intention to create legal relations

• TermsTopic

  Express and implied terms · Conditions, warranties, innominate terms · Exclusion clauses and unfair contract terms (ACL)

• Vitiating FactorsTopic

  Misrepresentation (fraudulent, negligent, innocent) · Mistake (common, mutual, unilateral) · Duress (common law + economic duress)

• Discharge and PerformanceTopic

  Performance (complete, substantial, divisible) · Breach (material vs minor; repudiation; anticipatory breach) · Frustration

• RemediesTopic

  Damages: expectation, reliance, restitution; remoteness (Hadley v Baxendale); mitigation · Specific performance and injunctions · Rescission

• Australian Consumer Law (ACL) overlayTopic

  Statutory guarantees; unfair terms; misleading/deceptive conduct (s 18)

• Masters v Cameron

  Define the three categories established in Masters v Cameron

  [1954] HCA 51; (1954) 91 CLR 353

• When is acceptance effective under the postal rule?

  Common law postal rule (English origin, adopted in Australia)
• Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd (English, adopted in Australia)

  Explain the 'practical benefit' doctrine in the law of consideration

  [1991] 1 QB 1; discussed in AustLII journals