This term covers everything from dealing with a shopkeeper who refused to refund you for the batteries that turned out to be flat when you got them home to multi-national, multi-party disputes between global companies and involving millions of pounds.
Contract law is generally based on a series of principles that were applied to disputes over the centuries, but were never all written down in one place. In the last two centuries however, more and more aspects of this area of law are controlled by Acts of Parliament - The Sale of Goods Acts, the Misrepresentation Act and the Unfair Contract Terms Act. This is quite apart from the fact that certain types of contracts - tenancy agreements, for example - are so important that they have separate areas of law all to themselves
