Browse Hierarchy LAW5006U: Commercial and Consumer Law

The objective of the module is to give students a good grounding in the main principles of the key components of commercial law-namely, consumer law, the law of sale and agency law. Students will study the sale of goods and consumer law (nature of a sale of goods contract and consumer protection, terms implied into the contract of sale, passing of property and risk in goods, liability of a seller without the right to sell, delivery obligations, remedies of the buyer and remedies of the seller). In terms of consumer credit, students will study the classification of credit agreements under the Consumer Credit Act, formalities for making regulated agreements, liability of the creditor/credit broker /supplier to the debtor, liability of the debtor to the creditor and the termination of regulated agreements. In Agency, they will study the agent's authority to bind his principal, the agent's rights and duties, the contractual relationships between the principal, agent, and third party, and the termination of the agency relationship.