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English contract law provides the invisible framework that
underpins and enables much contracting activity in society, yet the
role of the law in policing many of our contracts now approaches
vanishing point. The methods by which contracts come into
existence, and notionally create binding obligations, have
transformed over the past forty years. Consumers now enter into
contracts through remote and automated processes on standard terms
over which they have little control. This book explores the
substantive weakening of the institution of contract law in a
society heavily dependent on contracts. It considers significant
areas of contracting activity that affect many people, but that
escape serious and sustained legal scrutiny. An accessibly written
and succinct account of contract law's past, present and future, it
assesses the implications of a diminished contract law, and the
possibilities, if any, for its revival.
This book is a second edition of Interpretation of Contracts
(2007). The original work examined various issues surrounding the
question of how contracts should be interpreted by courts, in
particular focusing on the law of contract interpretation following
Lord Hoffmann's exposition of the principles of contextual
interpretation in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich
Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896. As with the original, this new
edition provides an overview of the subject, concentrating on
elements of controversy and disagreement, rather than a detailed
analysis of all the contract law rules and doctrines that might be
regarded as interpretative in one sense or another. The book will
be concerned with interpretation of contracts generally (following
the rule that there are not different rules of interpretation for
different kinds of contracts), but with reference to commercial
contracts in particular, since this is the area in which the
contextual interpretative approach was developed, and where it has
most relevance. The overall aim of the second edition remains the
same as the first - to produce an accessible and readable guide to
contract interpretation for law students, scholars and
practitioners.
This book is a second edition of Interpretation of Contracts
(2007). The original work examined various issues surrounding the
question of how contracts should be interpreted by courts, in
particular focusing on the law of contract interpretation following
Lord Hoffmann's exposition of the principles of contextual
interpretation in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich
Building Society [1998] 1 WLR 896. As with the original, this new
edition provides an overview of the subject, concentrating on
elements of controversy and disagreement, rather than a detailed
analysis of all the contract law rules and doctrines that might be
regarded as interpretative in one sense or another. The book will
be concerned with interpretation of contracts generally (following
the rule that there are not different rules of interpretation for
different kinds of contracts), but with reference to commercial
contracts in particular, since this is the area in which the
contextual interpretative approach was developed, and where it has
most relevance. The overall aim of the second edition remains the
same as the first - to produce an accessible and readable guide to
contract interpretation for law students, scholars and
practitioners.
In an increasingly health-conscious society, it often seems that
people, when faced with the dying process, view it as an oddity, an
aberration, rather than a natural part of life. This book takes a
fresh look at the way that Jesus walked, and gives practical
suggestions on how to take that experience and make it our own in a
positive, loving way. It gives hope that we are not alone in our
final hours, that we are filled with Divine love as we journey
together. Growing out of the author’s experience as a hospice
chaplain companioning the dying and their families, these
meditations and prayers are based on the fears and hopes, and joys
and sorrows of these individuals, and of the hospice staff who
accompanied them.
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