This custom publication contains selected chapters from Introduction to Commercial Law, 4th edition, edited by Cynthia Hawes and written by an experienced team of authors.
This text features detailed commentary and citations, covering all aspects of modern commercial law that have been identified as being of particular relevance to students studying Commercial Law at Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington.
Table of Contents
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Introduction: the nature of contract Chapter 3: Formation of a contract Chapter 4: The terms of the contract Chapter 5: Vitiating elements Chapter 6: Privity and assignment Chapter 7: Misrepresentation and breach of contract Chapter 8: Discharge of contract Chapter 10: Scope of the Sale of Goods Act 1908 Chapter 11: Passing of property Chapter 12: Sales without title Chapter 13: Terms of the contract Chapter 14: Performance of the contract Chapter 15: Remedies of the seller Chapter 16: Remedies of the buyer Chapter 20: Export trade contracts Chapter 24: Nature and formation of insurance contract Chapter 25: Insurance: non-disclosure and misstatements Chapter 26: Insurer's liability Chapter 35: Secured transactions: an introduction Chapter 36: Personal property securities
Jeremy Finn has recently retired from the School of Law at Canterbury where he had taught since 1978. He has published widely in the law of contract, legal history, criminal law and criminal procedure, and the law relating to natural disasters.
Duncan Webb is the member of Parliament for Christchurch Central. Formerly a partner and litigator at Lane Neave and a prior to that a professor of law at the University of Canterbury. He is a leading expert in lawyers’ ethics and legal responsibility and insurance law.
The author team consists of Richard Scragg, Lynne Taylor, Simon Dorset, Jonathan Scragg, Andrew Simpson, Sarah Hughes, Stephen Hunter, Matthew Harris and Aaron Sherriff.
Stephen Todd is professor of law at the University of Canterbury and holds a fractional position as professor of common law at the University of Nottingham in England. He specialises in the law of contract and the law of torts and has written extensively in both of these fields.
Debra Wilson is an associate professor of law at the University of Canterbury. She has a strong research reputation in Fair Trading Act and consumer law, and has published extensively on this subject. Debra was the co-author of two editions of Fair Trading: Misleading or Deceptive Conduct, is the author of the 'Fair Trading Act' chapters in Commercial Law in New Zealand and Consumer Law in New Zealand, 2nd edition, and is the New Zealand editor of the Trade Practices Law Journal/Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law.