With the immense number of contracts cases out there today, busy practitioners need a practical, in-depth contracts text book that tells them what the important cases are, why they are important, and what the underlying principles are. This book fills that need.
Written by Angela Swan, Jakub Adamski and Annie Na who are equally at home in academia and the legal practice, Canadian Contract Law, 4th ed helps lawyers advise clients, draft agreements, and recognize the pitfalls and dangers in resolving contract disputes by carefully explaining the actual approach courts have taken to solving contractual disputes. All aspects of contract law are covered, so lawyers need not look elsewhere for an authoritative interpretation and practical guidance on Canadian contract law.
Book Features:-
- Provides the reader with a framework for understanding contractual disputes by examining four central questions:
- What exactly is the problem?
- How do the rules deal with this problem?
- What is the solution?
- What other consequences and solutions may exist that the courts have not yet explored?
- Focuses on the problems of contractual relations as well as on those in transactions. The book recognizes that contracts are often more about doing business together over a lengthy period, rather than about single transactions
- Helps readers understand the principles that underlie the Canadian law of contracts Offers a guide through the contracts cases, and illustrates how the principles that underlie the law are being developed by the courts
- Both solicitors and barristers will benefit from the analysis of the relevant cases and principles set forth in the textbook
