This second edition of the text offers a thoroughly updated and comprehensive account of the law of contract including chapters on Assignment, Bailment and Guarantees and Indemnities, and presents an in-depth exposition of these and other topics in Contract Law in prose that is clear, concise and readable.
Case authorities are drawn from the United Kingdom and other common law jurisdictions where relevant, to supplement the extensive reference to local cases in the context of the Contracts Act 1950 and related legislation. The authors have drawn on their extensive experience in professional legal practice, teaching contract law in diverse jurisdictions and a track record of academic research and publication in Malaysia and elsewhere.
This second edition of the text offers a thoroughly updated and comprehensive account of the law of contract including chapters on Assignment, Bailment and Guarantees and Indemnities, and presents an in-depth exposition of these and other topics in Contract Law in prose that is clear, concise and readable.
Abdul Majid is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University Malaysia. He was at one time a Professor of English and then a legal practitioner before taking up an appointment at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he was an Associate Professor in Law. He also held an appointment as Visiting Fellow in Commercial and Business Laws at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He was published extensively in business law areas with occasional forays into other academic disciplines.
Krishnan Arjunan was formerly an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at the School of Business and Management, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to that he was an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland where he was Sub-Dean at the Department of Commerce. He was a legal practitioner in Malaysia for over a decade and was a former Director of the Certificate in Legal Practice Course (CLP) when he was concurrently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya. He is the author of several other texts in law and has published widely in business law areas