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Scheme of Work - Contract 1.202208

This document provides the scheme of work for the Contract Law I module during the August 2022 semester. It outlines the topics, lecture hours, and tutorial topics over 14 weeks. The module will cover key areas of contract law including agreement, intention to create legal relations, consideration, promissory estoppel, privity of contract, capacity and formalities, terms of contract, and exclusion clauses. Tutorials will involve discussion of these topics to further student understanding of contract law principles and their application.

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Scheme of Work - Contract 1.202208

This document provides the scheme of work for the Contract Law I module during the August 2022 semester. It outlines the topics, lecture hours, and tutorial topics over 14 weeks. The module will cover key areas of contract law including agreement, intention to create legal relations, consideration, promissory estoppel, privity of contract, capacity and formalities, terms of contract, and exclusion clauses. Tutorials will involve discussion of these topics to further student understanding of contract law principles and their application.

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Scheme of Work – August 2022 Semester

BACHELOR OF LAWS
Scheme of Work – Lecture & Tutorial
Module Code: LAW 60604 Module Title: CONTRACT LAW I
Academic Year: August 2022 Semester/Year: Semester 1 Year 1
Lecturer: Harcharan Singh Ujagar Singh Tutor: Harcharan Singh Ujagar Singh
Week LECTURE TUTORIAL
Hours Topic (Please refer to Lecture Outline) Hours Topic (Please refer to Tutorial Guide)
1 2 Topic 1: Agreement No Tutorial
Meeting of minds: objectivity.
29th August – 2nd Distinguishing offer and invitation to treat.
September 2022 Selected situations: advertisements, display of goods for
sale, tenders, and auctions.
2 2 Topic 1 (continued): Agreement No Tutorial
Termination of offer – rejection, revocation, lapse of
5th – 9th September time, contingent condition subsequent, death,
2022 acceptance, and counteroffer.
Revocation and communication
3 2 Topic 1 (conclusion): Agreement 1.5 TUTORIAL 1: Agreement
Acceptance as distinguished from cross-offer,
12th – 16th counteroffer, and mere inquiry.
Mode of acceptance, communication, and the postal
September 2022
rule.
16th Sept (Malaysia Silence.
Day) Revocation of acceptance.

4 2 Topic 2: Intention to Create Legal Relations


Use and nature of presumptions.
19th – 23rd Domestic or social context.
Commercial context.
September 2022
Rebutting the presumptions

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5 2 Topic 3: Consideration 1.5 TUTORIAL 2: Intention to Create Legal Relations


Executed and executory consideration.
26th – 30th Sufficiency of consideration.
Past consideration.
September 2022

6 2 Topic 3 (conclusion): Consideration


Pre-existing duty owed to third party.
3rd – 7th October Pre-existing duty imposed by law.
2022 Pre-existing duty owed to promisor and part-payment
of debt
7 2 Topic 4: Promissory Estoppel 1.5 TUTORIAL 3: Consideration
Relationship between the doctrines of consideration
10th – 14th October and promissory estoppel.
2022 -10th Oct Ingredients of promissory estoppel

(Prophet
Mohamed’s
Birthday)

8 Topic 5: Privity of Contract


Introducing the concept of privity.
17th – 21st October Rules and principles.
2022 Independent Relationship with the principle that consideration must
Learning Week move from the promisee.
(ILW)/ Professional
Development
Week PDW)
9 2 Topic 6: Capacity & Formalities 1.5 TUTORIAL 4: Promissory Estoppel
Capacity -Minors; Persons with unsound mind.
24th – 28th October Formalities - Contracts which must be evidenced in
writing; Deeds.
2022

23rd Oct

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Scheme of Work – August 2022 Semester

(Deepavali)
10 2 Topic 7: Terms of Contract
Express terms
31st October – 4th •Distinguished from representations or mere puff.
November 2022 •Incorporation.
•Interpretation.
•Parol evidence rule.
11 2 Topic 7 (conclusion): Terms of Contract 1.5 TUTORIAL 5: Capacity & Formalities
Implied terms
7th – 11th Terms implied in fact.
Terms implied by law.
November 2022
Terms implied by custom.
12 2 Topic 8: Exclusion Clauses
Definition and nature.
14th – 18th •Common law controls – rules of incorporation and
November 2022 interpretation of terms.
•Statutory controls.
13 No Lectures 1.5 TUTORIAL 6: Terms of Contract & Exclusion Clauses

21st – 25th
November 2022

14 No lectures

28th November –
2nd December 2022

TOTAL HOURS 22 9

Approved by:

Ambi kai
Programme Director Date: ___13 th August 2022

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