Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: This modules the requirements of construction contract, its performance, its termination & the post-completion duties. It discusses the general duties of employers, contractors & engineer. It also illustrates the several types of construction contract. The module covers also agency contracts in terms of formation, responsibilities & rights of both principals & agents and termination. It discusses the types of agency. It is intended to explain and discuss the relevant main topics under both English law and UAE law.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law prepared purposefully for this particular module.
Michael Grose, Construction Law in the UAE and the Gulf, (Wiley Blackwell, Susex, 2016).
John Adriaanse, Construction Contract Law (4th edn, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2016).
Howard Bennet, Principles of the Law of Agency, (Hart Publishing 2013).
