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Contract and Consumer Law

Lesson Five: Ending a Contract and Breach of Contracts

OBJECTIVE
Students will understand the conditions for ending a contract.

PROCEDURE
1. Discuss with students that contracts are not necessarily permanent. Most have an ending point, and there can be mutual ways to end a contract.

2. Read Ending a Contract as a group.

KEY QUESTIONS
• What ways could a contract end because of impossibility of performance?
• Is it fair to all parties that bankruptcy ends a contract?

3. Discuss costs involved in going to court, such as time and money. Have students debate whether or not this cost is a barrier to achieving justice when a contract is breached.

4. For a few particular types of contracts, the law in Saskatchewan spells out other terms that—if they are not met—can allow for the contract to be cancelled. Find these rules here.

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