Overview
Our free Contract notes cover everything you need to know for the Solicitors' Qualifying Exam (SQE). From offer and acceptance to breach and remedies, we've got you covered. Whether you're in a classroom or taking the self-study route, these notes provide added peace of mind, knowing that you have everything you need to help consolidate and revise effectively for the SQE1 exam. Think something could be better? Give us a shout on our contact page, and we'll take a look.
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- Criminal Law and Practice
- Land Law
- Property Practice
- Solicitors Accounts
- Trusts
- Wills and the Administration of Estates
1. Existence and Formation of a Contract
- Offer and acceptance
- Consideration
- Intention to create legal relations
- Certainty
- Capacity
- Privity of contract and rights of third parties
2. Contents of a contract
- Express terms
- Incorporation of terms
- Terms implied by common law and statute
- Exemption clauses
- Interpretation of contract terms (conditions, warranties, and innominate terms)
- Variation of contract terms
3. Causation and Remoteness
4. Vitiating elements
5. Discharge of Contract and Remedies
- Termination of contract (expiry, breach, frustration)
- Basic principles of restitution and unjust enrichment in termination
- Damages
- Liquidated sums and penalties
- Specific performance
- Injunctions
- Duty to mitigate
- Indemnities
- Guarantees