McKendrick provides an excellent, readable guide to contract law for those embarking on a first degree or conversion course in law. The book contains all the key information as well as more complex issues to serve as a valuable course companion, but equally to aid revision in preparation for exams. This edition includes the following key updates in case law: Proprietary Estoppel: Yeoman's Row Management Ltd v Cobbe [2008] UKHL 55 Frustration: Edwinton Commercial Corporation, Global Tradeways Limited v Tsavliris Russ (Worldwide Salvage& Towage) Ltd (The 'Sea Angel') [2007] EWCA Civ 547, CTI Group Inc v Transclear SA [2008] EWCA Civ 856 Remoteness Of Damage: Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] UKHL 48; [2008] 3 WLR 345 Date Of Assessment Of Contractual Damages: Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha [2007] UKHL 12;[2007] 2 WLR 691 Damages And Account Of Profits: WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature v. World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. [2007] EWCA 286
Author Biography
EWAN MCKENDRICK is Herbert Smith Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford, UK, where he is also a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. He is the author of a number of key works on contract law and commercial law, and is an editor of Chitty on Contracts. He is also a barrister in practice with a leading set of commercial chambers in London.
