Course curriculum

    1. Assessment objectives

    2. What is contract law about?

    3. Key definitions

    4. Key legislation

    1. Overview of the existence and formation of a contract

    2. → Contract formation MIND MAP

    3. → Contract formation MIND MAP [JAMES - SAME AS BELOW CONTENT RE DUPLICATION. OBV THIS IS BETTER THAN THE ONE DIRECTLY ABOVE THOUGH, SO LET'S DELETE THE PREVIOUS MINDMAP ABOVE?

    4. Offers

    5. → Offers MIND MAP

    6. → Offers MIND MAP [JAMES - HAVING TWO HERE SEEMS OVERKILL. CAN YOU THINK OF DISTINCT TITLES FOR THEM? WHEN CHECKING CHRIS' WORK, IT'S WORTH IDENTIFYING UNNECESSARY MINDMAPS OTHERWISE USERS WILL BE DROWNING IN THEM.

    7. Acceptance

    8. Capacity and certainty

    9. Intention to create legal relations

    10. Consideration

    11. → Consideration MIND MAP

    12. Varying a contract

    13. PRACTISE MCQs: existence and formation of a contract

    1. Overview of parties to a contract

    2. → Parties to a contract MIND MAP

    3. Privity of contract

    4. Rights of third parties

    5. PRACTISE MCQs: parties to a contract

    1. Overview of contract terms

    2. → Contract terms MIND MAP

    3. The difference between terms and representations

    4. Express terms

    5. Implied terms

    6. Conditions, warranties, and innominate terms

    7. Remedies for breach of terms

    8. Exemption and limitation clauses

    9. Unfair contract terms

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: contract terms

    1. Overview of vitiating factors

    2. → Vitiating factors MIND MAP

    3. Misrepresentation

    4. Mistake

    5. Duress

    6. Undue influence

    7. Illegality

    8. PRACTISE MCQs: vitiating factors

    1. Overview of termination, breach and frustration

    2. → Termination of a contract MIND MAP

    3. Termination

    4. → Termination by performance MIND MAP

    5. → Termination by agreeement MIND MAP

    6. Breach of contract

    7. → Termination by breach MIND MAP

    8. Frustration

    9. → Termination by frustration MIND MAP

    10. PRACTISE MCQs: termination, breach and frustration

Contract law

  • 68 lessons
  • 45 minutes of video content

Instructors

James Richardson

Co-founder & Lawyer

James is a highly experienced solicitor and author. He trained and qualified at major transatlantic firm Hogan Lovells. After a few years in their Commercial Litigation and Insurance team, James moved to the City to work as an underwriter on M&A deals. James also founded and ran Law Answered for a decade, where he wrote or co-wrote 42 different books for law students across the spectrum of graduate and postgraduate law courses. He now is Head of Legal, Risk and Compliance at a motor insurtech scaleup called Cuvva, which he joined as first in-house counsel shortly after their Series A fundraise.

Jake Schogger

Co-founder & Lawyer

Jake Schogger is a qualified lawyer, career coach, entrepreneur, author, copywriter and consultant. He is the founder and CEO of City Career Series, a publishing company that has sold ~50,000 handbooks designed to help students secure City careers, including the critically acclaimed Commercial Law Handbook and Training Contract Handbook. He also founded Commercial Law Academy. He trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP and now acts as a legal adviser to start-ups and scale-ups, whilst also working as a career coach and delivering career-related presentations at universities across the UK. In addition, Jake works with tech start-ups and runs a variety of his own businesses. Connect with Jake on LinkedIn via www.linkedin.com/in/jakeschogger

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  • 18 on-demand academic and skills courses, consolidating the core functioning legal knowledge required by the SRA into easily-digestible, bite-sized chunks

  • Thousands of MCQs, each with detailed explanations of why the answers are correct or incorrect.

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  • Three tiers of mock exams, including topic-specific, course-specific, and SQE-wide MCQ assessments.

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  • Includes a consolidated glossary of key definitions from throughout the course, as well as links to the key legislation mentioned.

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