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2. Consideration
1. Definition
(i) Classical definition
Currie v Misa (1875) L.R. 10 Ex 153
(ii) Modern approach
*Williams v Roffey Bros & Nicholls (Contractors) Ltd [1991] 1 QB 1
Edmunds v Lawson [2000] 2 WLR 1091
Further Reading:
Luther: “Campbell, Espinasse and the Sailors: Text and Context in the Common Law”
(1999)19 Legal Studies 526
Fuller: “Consideration and Form” (1941) 31 Col LR 799
Raz: “Promises in Morality and Law” (1982) 95 Harvard Law Review 916
Stephen A. Smith: ‘Contract Theory’ (2004) Clarendon Press 209-233
O’Sullivan: “In Defence of Foakes v Beer” [1996] Cambridge Law Journal 219.
Atiyah: “Consideration: A Restatement” reproduced in Atiyah: ‘Essays on Contract’
(Clarendon Press 1986), 179.
Treitel: “Consideration: A Critical Analysis of Professor Atiyah’s Fundamental Restatement”
(1974) 50 Australian Law Journal 439.
3. Promissory Estoppel
Reading:
A.T. Denning, “Recent Developments in the Doctrine of Consideration” (1952) 15 Modern
Law Review 1
Stephen A. Smith: ‘Contract Theory’ (2004) Clarendon Press 233-244.
Williams v Roffey Bros [1991] 1 QB 1 (CA) per Glidewell LJ
Promissory Estoppel
Reliance by promisee
Societe Italo Belge pour le Commerce et L’industrie v Palm and Vegetable Oils M’sia (The
Post Chaser) [1982] 1 All E.R. 19
WJ Alan & Co v El Nasr [1972] 2 All ER 127
Suspensory Effect
Central London Property Trust v. High Trees House Ltd. [1947] K.B.130
Tool Metal Manufacturing v Tungsten Electric co [1955] 2 All ER 657
WJ Alan & Co v El Nasr [1972] 2 All ER 127
4. Proprietary Estoppel
5. Estoppel by Convention
Extra Reading:
Lord Denning: ‘The Discipline of Law’ (1979) Butterworths Ch.4
4. Intention to Create Legal Relations
1. Domestic Arrangements
2. Social Arrangements
3. Commercial Relations
Further Reading:
M. Freeman, “Contracting in the Haven: Balfour v Balfour Revisited” in R. Halson, ‘Exploring
the Boundaries of Contract’ (1996), 68
Stephen A. Smith: ‘Contract Theory’ (2004), 212-215
Hepple: “Intention to Create Legal Relations” [1970] CLJ 122
Simpson: “Innovations of Nineteenth Century Contract Law” (1975) 91 LQR 247, 263-5.
Dr Fiona Smith
October 2009
LLM Intermediate 2009/10