Saturday 2 April 2016

Contract Law - Frustration - Impossibility

Topic: Contract Law - Frustration - Impossibility

Order Description
The project takes the form of an assessed essay of not more than 2,000 words on a prescribed topic in Contract Law.

Question:
“Impossibility in contract law defies easy definition and the way in which the doctrine of frustration has been developed and used by the Courts is sensitive to that fact.”
Critically discuss.

Sources:
Books:
E. McKendrick Contract Law: Text, Cases and Materials Chapter 21 and p397-398

G. Treitel Frustration and Force Majeure (2004, Sweet and Maxwell)

E. McKendrick ‘Force Majeure and Frustration – Their Relationship and a Comparative Assessment’ in E. McKendrick Force Majeure and Frustration in Contract (2nd edition, 1995, LLP) Chpt 3

Cases:
Taylor v Caldwell (1863) 3 B & S 826
Davis Contractors Ltd v Fareham Urban District Council [1956] AC 696

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