Part 3: Remedies, Interpretation and Terms Modifying Liability (Clone)

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1. ESSENTIAL READING FOR THIS PART

0.	General instructions for this part
1.0	Questions to prepare and discuss (Contract law, part 3)
1.1	Contract law workbook 3 (Remedies and Terms Modifying Liability)

2. LECTURE MATERIALS

2.1 Interpretation and Control of Clauses Restricting liability

Audio: Control of clauses restricting liability 1

Audio: Control of clauses restricting liability 2

2.2 Breach of contract 1 and termination

Audio: Discharge by termination

2.3 Breach of contract 2 and monetary remedies

Audio: Monetary remedies: damages and limiting factors

3. OPTIONAL ADDITIONAL READING

3.1	Cavendish Square Holdings BV v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67
3.2	Morris-Garner v One Step (Support) Ltd [2018] UKSC 20
3.3	Farley v Skinner [2001] UKHL 49
3.4	Wood v Capita Insurance Services [2017] UKSC 24
3.5	Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36

4. MULTI-MEDIA MATERIALS

4.1: Sir Bernard Rix BLC Guest Lecture

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZJ1dQCDdI&w=560&h=315]

A discussion on contract interpretation in different legal systems, given for the BLC by the former President of the UK’s Commercial Court

4.2: Wood v Capita Insurance

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMv1kSnI9iI&w=900&h=506]

A UK Supreme Court judgment on interpreting contractual clauses (in this case, an indemnity)

4.3: Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDSa9JsogaU&w=900&h=506]
A UK Supreme Court judgment on implied terms in English contract law

4.4: Cavendish v Makdessi [2015] UKSC 67

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIH1Vwu1DM&w=560&h=315]
A UK Supreme Court judgment on liquidated damages and penalty clauses under English law

4.5: Morris-Garner v One Step (Support) Ltd [2018] UKSC 20

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVC48V3MT04&w=560&h=315]
A broad-ranging UK Supreme Court judgment on common law damages principles conducted in the context of a review of the circumstances in which damages can be awarded by reference to the estimated value of a lost right to negotiate a fee for release of a contractual right