Crash Course to Contract Law

This lecture helps you to differentiate offer from invitation to treat, and looks at several case law examples to further strengthen the understanding.

This lecture offers several stereotypical situations and discusses whether these situations are offers or are they really invitations to treat.

This lecture offers guidance as to why the distinction between an offer versus an invitation to treat is an important one. It then explains that importance by referencing to the case of Gibson v Manchester City Council.

The courts conveniently offered additional insights as to the element of offer, which are looked at in this lecture.

Here, we explore how an offer can be terminated/expired/no longer valid.

This lecture explains about the ingredient of acceptance, and what amounts to a valid acceptance to an offer.

Here, we shall look at the rule requiring the communication of acceptance, and where acceptance was not communicated, it is generally an invalid acceptance.

Postal Rule is one of the biggest exception to the rule requiring communication of acceptance. We shall explore this exception under this lecture.

This lecture looks at the first element of consideration, i.e. how the consideration must originate from the promisee/offeree.

This lecture looks at the second element of consideration, i.e. how a past consideration is not taken to be a good consideration at all by the courts.

This lecture looks at the third element of consideration, i.e. how the consideration must be sufficient, but at the same time need not be adequate. There are five additional aspects which this lecture will dive in further in analyzing this element.

There exists a form of promise where consideration need not be 100% fulfilled by the promisee. Such a situation exists in the form of part payment of a full debt, which may be recognizable by the courts to discharge the full debt in certain scenario, which will be looked at in this lecture.

Promissory estoppel is another species of promise, where the promisee need not supply any consideration at all, but the courts will still enforce these promises as binding on the promisor. Here, we shall look in detail how this operates, and the constraints that may apply.

This lecture highlights the rules governing the ingredient of intention to create legal relations.

This lecture introduces the vitiating factors that the contracting parties must try to avoid as much as possible, in order to maintain an enforceable contract.

This lecture provides the context as to where the differentiation of terms versus representation is important to contract scenarios.

This lecture focuses on the first two factors in deciding whether a statement is a term of the contract, or a mere representation. These factors are the importance attached to the statement and the existence of any special skills or knowledge.

This lecture focuses on the third and fourth factors in deciding whether a statement is a term of the contract, or a mere representation. These factors are whether the contract was reduced to writing, and whether there are any verification by the representee to identify the truth of the statement by the representor.

This lecture focuses on the last factor in deciding whether a statement is a term of the contract, or a mere representation. This factor has got to do with the element of time.

This lecture takes a look at how the courts actually interpret the terms of the contract.

We shall turn our focus to analyze the types of terms and the impact they have in the event these terms are breached by a contractual party.