This textbook provides a unique approach to contract law, employing the use of numerous diagrams and boxes to help explain the subject and bring it to life. Written by a leading contract lawyer with extensive teaching experience, the book uses an informal, lively, and analytical style to explain the intricacies of contract law and the questions that arise during the life of a contract. The book is also accompanied by a wide-ranging web site to support the use of the book in teaching. Online Resource Centre For Students * Updates * Web links to key cases and legislation * Guidance to textbook questions * Two additional chapters: Incapacity, and Illegality and Public Policy * PowerPoint slides of the diagrams with audio (by the author) to show how these are to be interpreted For Lecturers * Diagrams from the book * Test bank