Class schedule and reading guide

Essential reading before the first class: PFA 3 17

Date

Class No.

Topic

Required Reading / (For recommended reading see below). Note: PFA includes questions and comments in each chapter. Student who wish to do well in the course are advised to consider as many of these questions as they can.

Monday, 27 Feb 2012

Understanding the contract of sale and the multiple legal concepts of goods Contractual and statutory terms of contracts of sale

PFA 341 349, 358 365, 378 380 Supp: Symes v Laurie [1985] 2 Qd R 547

Thursday, 1 March 2012

PFA 747 760, 763 766, 768 780 Supp: Crago and Anor v Multiquip Pty Ltd and Anor (1998) ATPR 41-620; BC9704181 Wallis, Son & Wells v Pratt & Haynes [1911] AC 394 [Note: PFA contains the decision appealed from at 856. Which judgment makes the more sense?]

Monday, 5 March 2012

The importance of accurate and precise description of the goods; correspondence with sample

PFA 780 801; 868 871 Supp: Australian Knitting Mills Ltd v Grant (1933) 50 CLR 387 (HC); (1936) 54 CLR 49 (PC)

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Fitness for purpose

PFA 801 841

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Date

Class No.

Topic

Required Reading / (For recommended reading see below). Note: PFA includes questions and comments in each chapter. Student who wish to do well in the course are advised to consider as many of these questions as they can.

Monday, 12 March 2012 Thursday, 15 March 2012

Merchantability

PFA 841 855; 862 - 868

Concepts of ownership: property, possession and transfer of risk

PFA 383 433 Supp: Re Goldcorp Exchange Ltd (in receivership) [1994] 2 All ER 806 {Note: An extract appears in PFA, but students should read the judgment set out in the Supplementary materials.] Allied Mills Ltd v Gwydir Valley Oilseeds Pty Ltd [1978] 2 NSWR 26

Monday, 19 March 2012

When is possession legally recognised?

(Prev class cont.)

PFA 81 102

Finders keepers?

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Bailment of Goods

PFA: 158 194 Supp: TNT v Baker (1966) 115 CLR 353

Monday, 26 March 2012

Challenges to ownership: nemo dat quod habet and its exceptions

PFA: 472 481, 531 572

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Date

Class No.

Topic

Required Reading / (For recommended reading see below). Note: PFA includes questions and comments in each chapter. Student who wish to do well in the course are advised to consider as many of these questions as they can.

Thursday, 29 March 2012

10

Performance and breach in the sale of goods the sellers perspective

PFA 1055 1097 Supp: E&S Ruben Limited v. Faire Brothers & Company Limited [1949] 1 KB 254 Forth v Simpson (1849) 13 QBR 680 Maple Flock Co v Universal Furniture Products (Wembley) Ltd [1934] 1 KB 148, 157; Kwei Tek Chao v British Traders and Shippers Ltd [1954] 2 QB 459, 481

Thursday, 5 April 2012

11

Performance and breach in the sale of goods the sellers perspective

(Prev class cont.)

Monday, 16 April 2012

12

(continue) Performance and breach in the sale of goods the buyers perspective Contractual bases of agency law

PFA 1097 1120 Supp: Kasler v Slavouski [1928] 1 K.B. 78

Thursday, 19 April 2012

13

Powers of Attorney Act 2003 PFA 207 212, 227 242 Supp: Essington Investments Pty Ltd and Ors v Regency Property Pty Ltd [2004] NSWCA 375

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Date

Class No.

Topic

Required Reading / (For recommended reading see below). Note: PFA includes questions and comments in each chapter. Student who wish to do well in the course are advised to consider as many of these questions as they can.

Monday, 23 April 2012

14

Ratification of agency; rights and obligations arising from conduct after formation of the contract of agency

PFA 244 280

Thursday 3 May 2012

15

Agents and third parties; the doctrine of the undisclosed principal

PFA 282 289, 302 326

Monday, 7 May 2012

16

Mercantile Agents and problems of apparent authority

Factors (Mercantile Agents) Act 1923 3, 5 PFA 481 531

Thursday 10 May 2012

17

Statutory Remedies Revision

PFA 1152 1204 Roy Goode: Commercial Law in the Next Millennium Supp. 3-12

Monday, 14 May 2012

18

Revision

Roy Goode: Commercial Law in the Next Millennium Supp. 3-12

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