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Fairness awry? Reflections on the BCLI Report on proposals for unfair contracts relief, Canadian Business Law Journal (2012)

The reader is possibly familiar by now with the British Colombia Law Institute (BLI)'s "Report...

 

Circumscribing election: Reflections on the taxonomization and mental componentry of the affirmation of a contract by election, The University of Queensland Law Journal (2011)

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It not frequently occurs in legal contractual settings that one contracting party is confronted with...

 

Lapse of offers due to changed circumstances: a contract conversion (with David McLauchlan), Journal of Contract Law (2011)

It is trite law that a change of circumstances between the making of an offer...

 

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Ill-gotten contracts in New Zealand: Parting thoughts on duress, undue influence and unconscionable dealing - Kiwi-style?, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (2011)

This article considers the private-law doctrines of duress, undue influence and unconscionable dealing as they...

 

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Doctrinal reform and post-contractual modifications in New Brunswick: Nav Canada v. Greater Fredericton Airport Authority Inc., Canadian business law journal (2010)

The application of the pre-existing duty rule and economic duress doctrine in connection with informal...

 

Fine-tuning affirmation of contract by election: Part 1, New Zealand law review (2010)

The common law election doctrine is well known to judges and lawyers but it is...

 

Throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Four questions on the demise of lawful-act duress in New South Wales, University of Queensland law journal (2008)

In Australia & New Zealand Banking Group v Karam (2005) 64 NSWLR 149, the New...