The Law of Contract - Seventh Edition (Part of Butterworths Common Law Series)
Authors: Professor Roger Halson, Professor Roger Brownsword, Professor Jason Chuah, Kwan Ho Lau, Dr Eliza Mik, Dr David Pearce, Dr John E Stannard, Professor Gregory Tolhurst, Dr Qi Zhou
The Law of Contract provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of all aspects of the law of contract.
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The Law of Contract provides a comprehensive and authoritative treatment of all aspects of the law of contract. It is both accessible and detailed, designed specifically to meet the needs of practitioners in the field.
The new seventh edition includes detailed commentary on significant developments in the law and incisive analysis of key cases since the last edition published in 2017. Recent major decisions examined will include:
Several cases on good faith, including the litigation associated with Bates v Post Office
Wells v Devani on agreement
Several new cases on illegality, including Stoffel v Grondoma
Times Travel v Pakistan Airlines on duress
Chudley v Clydesdale Bank on third parties
Canary Wharf (BP4) T1 v European Medicines Agency on frustration and Brexit
Triple Point Technology v PTT Public on liquidated damages
Head of Customer Success, Hong Kong & Taiwan of LexisNexis Timothy Ho
Timothy Ho is the Head of Customer Success of LexisNexis Hong Kong & Taiwan. Timothy is responsible for optimizing customer experience with legal products and enhancing customer value to promote retention and loyalty. His experience covers a broad range of strategic issues including competitive analysis, product innovation, market segmentation, translation, onboarding and legal training. For the past four years, Timothy has spearheaded efforts that has led to the net promoter score of the company increasing exponentially. Timothy advised the product development of LexisNexis online and digital legal solutions, especially Lexis Advance® Hong Kong which was awarded the Hong Kong Business Technology Excellence Awards 2019 in the category of Online Services for Legal Award.
Timothy has conducted hundreds of legal trainings for thousands of judges, solicitors, barristers, in-house counsel, government counsel, law professors and law students in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Timothy has worked in the government and an international law firm in Hong Kong. He is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese and is based in Hong Kong.
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- Hong Kong Academy of Law
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- LexisNexis LegalTech Seminar 2020