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Author:   Charles Haward Soper
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367272111

ISBN 10:   0367272113
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   14 January 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgement Table of Cases Table of Figures Table of Tables Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Justifying Contract Law 1.2 What is a Symbiotic Contract? 1.3 Chapter Structure 1.3.1 Chapter 2 -Duty to Cooperate – Case Law and Comment 1.3.2 Chapter 3 Empirical Research Results 1.3.3 Chapter 4 The Source and Justification of the Duty to Cooperate 1.3.4 Chapter 5 The Duty to Cooperate 1.3.5 Chapter 6 Remedies, Antidotes, and Enforcement Mechanisms 1.3.6 Chapter 7 A Few Hard Cases 1.4 Summary Chapter 2 Duty to Cooperate – Case Law and Comment 2.1 Basic Principle and Overview of Case-Law 2.2 Prevention of performance 2.3 Reasonable Endeavours, Diligence/Facilitation 2.4 Defects and Rights to Cure 2.5 Communication or constructive engagement 2.6 Active Cooperation/Accepting Reasonable Solutions 2.7 Control of Contractual Decision Making 2.7.1 General Principles 2.7.2 Decisions to Exercise Absolute Contractual Rights 2.7.3 Commercial Contracts 2.7.4 Construction Contracts 2.7.5 Taking the Interests of the other Party into account 2.7.6 How to Make a Decision 2.7.7 Conclusion 2.7.8 Appendix A to Chapter 2.7 – typical contract decision making powers 2.8 The Apparatus of Contract Interpretation 2.9 Conclusion Chapter 3 Empirical Research- Survey and Results 3.1 Methods and Results 3.1.1 Respondent Sample and Demographics 3.1.2 Survey and Interview Design 3.1.3 Survey - General Results 3.2 Open questions – Enjoyment and Success 3.3 The Vignettes/Case Studies 3.3.1 Vignette 1 – The Power and the Story 3.3.2 Vignette 2 – Decide or Concur? 3.3.3 Vignette 3 – An Offer he can’t Refuse? 3.3.4 Vignette 4 – Is It About the Ketchup? 3.4 Themes from the Vignettes 3.4.1 Governance Questions 3.4.2 Negotiation Questions 3.4.3 Punitive Measures 3.4.4 Termination 3.4.5 Fast Track Dispute Resolution Measures 3.4.6 Self-help Remedies 3.5 Cooperation Themes 3.5.1 How Important is Cooperation in the Management of Contracts? 3.5.2 What does Cooperation Mean? 3.5.3 Which Contract Terms Promote Cooperation? 3.5.4 How is Cooperation Achieved? 3.6 Conclusions from this Empirical Evidence 3.6.1 Cooperation is Important 3.6.2 What Cooperation Means Chapter 4 The Source, Justification and Application of the Duty to Cooperate 4.1 Theoretical Perspectives on Commercial Expectations 4.1.1 The Change in Commercial Reality and Commercial Practice 4.1.2 Meaning of Commercial Expectations 4.1.3 Why These Expectations should be given Legal Force 4.2 The Source of the Duty - Commercial Expectations – Polyfilla, Penumbra or Polysemia? Giving it Some Ayr 4.2.1 Evidence of Market Practice 4.2.2 Custom 4.2.3 The Parties’ History - Overview 4.2.4 The Parties’ History – Prior Dealings 4.2.5 The Parties’ History – Negotiations 4.2.6 The Parties’ History –Subsequent Conduct 4.2.7 Surveys 4.2.8 The Commercial Judge 4.3 Conclusion Chapter 5 The third way – how it is different 5.1 The Third Way 5.2 Definitions of cooperation 5.2.1 Good Faith in Civil Law 5.2.2 Full-Blooded Relational Scholarship 5.2.3 Other Academic Constructs – Mainstream Obligations Scholars and Hybrid or Para-Relationists 5.2.4 Law and economics definitions 5.2.5 Trust Based Definitions 5.2.6 Managerial Thoughts 5.2.7 Tit-for-tat ≠ cooperation 5.3 Conclusion Chapter 6 Remedies, Antidotes, and Enforcement Mechanisms 6.1 Remedies for Prevention 6.2 Wrotham Park/Negotiating Damages 6.3 Damages for Failure or Refusal to Negotiate 6.4 Statutory Adjudication 6.5 Limiting the Right to Determine 6.6 Cost Penalties Chapter 7 A Few Hard Cases 7.1 Medirest 7.2 Portsmouth City Council v Ensign Highways 7.3 The Post Office Litigation 7.4 Yam Seng Pte Ltd v International Trade Corporation Ltd (Yam Seng) 7.5 Bristol Groundschool Ltd v Intelligent Data Capture Ltd 7.6 Communication cases – Mona Oil, AE Lindsay, and Peter Dumenil 7.7 J& H Ritchie Ltd v Lloyd Ltd 7.8 D&G Cars Ltd v Essex Police Authority 7.9 Decision Making Powers – Nash and Lymington 7.10 Day to Day Management – the Mundane and the More Mundane 7.11 Walter Lilly & Co Ltd v Giles Patrick Cyril Mackay and DMW Developments Limited 7.12 General Thoughts on the Cases Chapter 8 Concluding Thoughts and Suggestion for Reform Bibliography Index

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Dr C. Haward Soper (Haward) is an Honorary Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester.

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