Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations go to regular ODG poster Angela Swan on the publication of the second edition of her treatise Canadian Contract Law.  From the publishers website (http://www.lexisnexis.ca/bookstore/bookinfo.php?pid=1771):

The Supreme Court of Canada has recently rendered several important decisions regarding contractual liability which have the potential to significantly change the law of contracts in numerous ways, such as by:

 

·         Restricting the scope for punitive damages

·         Re-stating the basis of compensatory awards

·         Qualifying positions that the Supreme Court took in earlier decisions

 

Canadian Contract Law, 2^nd Edition addresses and seeks to eliminate this uncertainty. Leading practitioner and academic Angela Swan presents a general framework to help you understand all the problems that may arise in a contractual relation, deal with them effectively, and avoid frustrated expectations. She applies each rule of contract law to practical contexts to answer four central questions:

 

·         What exactly is the problem?

·         How do the rules deal with this problem?

·         What is the solution?

·         What other consequences and solutions may exist that the courts have not yet explored?

-- 
Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law & 
Cassels Brock LLP Faculty Fellow in Contract Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435