Speciality Contract. Concerned with when the transfer of the property in the Goods passes from the Seller to the Buyer. What is a Sale? What is an Agreement to Sell?
Having established a valid contract, how does that contract come to any end? A contract may be discharged by Performance, Agreement, Frustration and Breach. With respect to the latter, the issue of Remedies arise.
Consideration. What constitutes good consideration. Executors, Executed and Past Consideration. The Rule in Pinel's Case and the exceptions to the rule of Past Consideration.
There are five elements of contract formation, namely valid offer, valid acceptance, good consideration, intention to be legally bound and capacity. In this session we are exploring what constitutes a valid offer and how that is distinct from a
In Part 1 we looked at Mistake as a vitiating factor. Here we turn our focus to Misrepresentation. We are concerned with typology, effect and remedies. The extent and the limitation of those remedies.
Having established a valid contract and what are the express, implied or intermediary terms of that contract, the questions is can anything render such a contract invalid and if yes, what are those factors? What remedies are available? What is
Having established the elements of a valid contract we now turn our attention to the content of the contract. What are the Express and or implied terms to which the parties have bound themselves to perform. If the fail so to do, what are the co
The intention to be legally bound is at the heart of contract formation. This is and objective test taking into account whether the Agreements are Domestic or Commercial. Less emphasized is the capacity to contract, is the person an adult or mi
In these episodes we look at the elements of Contract formation, namely:- valid offer, valid acceptance, good consideration, the intention to be legally bound and the capacity to contract.
The Court system is hierarchical in structure that is, it's top down. The decisions of the higher Courts are bringing on lower courts. There is a three tierd system of appeals with the Privy Council occupying the highest appellate jurisdiction.
The Doctrine of Judicial Precedent is the basis on which cases are decided by the court. The decision in a previous case is binding on a subsequent case provided the facts are similar. Precedent ten to be binding, persuasive or highly persuasiv
The Constitution is the supreme law of the land. All other laws must be consistent with it or will be deemed null and void. Its provisions have varying degrees of protection by a range of mechanisms, such as, entrenchment, delay procedures, spe
This course surveys some aspects of law and legal systems of Jamaica and to some extent the Anglophone Caribbean as it relates to the everyday conduct of business. It is a foundation law course for business students.