Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:46:55 -0400

From: Jason Neyers

Subject: Ring a Bell?

Dear Colleagues:

I am looking for the House of Lords case where one of their Lordships (who I think is Lord Hoffmann) comments that in contrast to the law of torts with its discrete torts and compartmentalized reasoning, contract law has traditionally been viewed and interpreted as a unitary whole -- the law of contract rather than a law of contracts. I believe that the thrust of this comment was that this unitary thinking might not always be appropriate given that certain types of contracts are special in the civilian sense (i.e. that they have idiosyncratic rules mandated by their special conceptual nature).

Any assistance would be most appreciated.

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Jason Neyers
January Term Director
Assistant Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435

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