Contract Law

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the foundations of contracts in Contract Law. This document covers offer and acceptance (including the distinction between an offer and an invitation to treat), certainty of contract, and intention to create legal relations.

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the rules surrounding breaching terms of a contract in Contract Law. This document covers anticipatory breach, the possibility of termination following breach of a condition, warranty or innominate term, damages following breach (expectation interest, reliance interest, restitution interest, account for profits and negotiating damages), restrictions on damages (mitigation, remoteness and causation), and penalty clauses.

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on misrepresentation in Contract Law. This document covers the three elements of misrepresentation (statement of existing law/fact, addressed to the party misled, and inducement), the three types of misrepresentation (fraudulent, negligent and innocent), the two remedies often awarded (rescission and damages), and the rules surrounding excluding liability for misrepresentation.

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the rules surrounding frustration of contract in Contract Law. This document covers the basis of frustration (illegality, impossibility, frustration of purpose), factors excluding frustration (express provision, foreseen/foreseeable events, self-induced frustration) and the effect of frustration under both common law and Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943. It also covers the effect of 'booking conditions' (with regard to both consumer and non-con...

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the rules surrounding implied and express terms in Contract Law. This document covers the incorporation of express terms (notice, contained or referred to in a document, and reasonable steps to bring the terms to the attention of the other party), terms implied by statute (Sale of Goods Act 1979, Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, Consumer Rights Act 2015), terms implied by custom, terms implied by common law, and the incorporation, construction and regula...

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the rules surrounding mistake in Contract Law. This document covers offer and acceptance mistake (latent ambiguity, mistake as to terms, mistake as to identity), common mistake (mistake as to existence of subject matter, mistake as to quality) and non est factum.

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on unequal bargaining power in Contract Law. This document covers duress (duress to the person, duress to goods and economic duress), and undue influence (actual and presumed undue influence following the case of Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge).

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on the rules surrounding unfair contract terms in Contract Law. This document covers unfair terms in consumer contracts (under Consumer Rights Act 2015) and non-consumer contracts (under Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977).

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on consideration and estoppel in Contract Law. This document covers whether performance of a contractual duty owed to the promisor, performance of a duty imposed by law, past payment of a debt, and past consideration can be sufficient consideration, as well as the principle of promissory estoppel.

Comprehensive summary/exam notes on unilateral contracts in Contract Law. This document covers the case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball, the rules regarding offer, acceptance and consideration in unilateral contracts, and the extent of recovery in relation to such contracts (specifically an action for the agreed sum).