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262 Contract law Law and morals You may know about other areas of law, and you will be able to use them here in an overview of t ...

example, in the case of British Rail v Herrington (1972) the House of Lords used their new Practice Statement powers to overturn ...

Contextual skills in examination When you learn about areas of the English legal system for examination at AS-level, the scene i ...

19 Sources of contract law Although as students of law we may often find out many of the rules of contract law by reading them i ...

An interesting aspect of statute law is that although it is decreed by Parliament, it is still fine-tuned by the courts, as it i ...

Synoptic assessment is a combination of skills, but it is not really new to you. You will have used these skills in answering qu ...

The current pre-released source materials for OCR follow below, and we will examine some of the issues that are raised by these ...

SOURCE 2 It has been settled for well over three hundred years that the courts will not inquire into the ‘adequacy of considerat ...

SOURCE 3 The question is whether the three wrappers were part of the consideration. I think that they are part of the considerat ...

SOURCE 4 Although a nominal consideration will suffice at law, there are cases in which the act or forbearance, promised or perf ...

SOURCE 5 The rule in English law is that ‘past consideration is no consideration’. In defining consideration, consideration for ...

SOURCE 6 In many contractual situations, it makes perfectly good sense for a party to promise an extra reward in return for the ...

(v) B’s promise is not given as the result of economic duress or fraud on the part of A; then (vi) the benefit to B is capable o ...

SOURCE 7 The Board agrees with the submission of counsel for the plaintiffs that the consideration expressly stated in the writt ...

this case. The promise given by Fu Chip under the main agreement not to sell the shares for a year was at Lau’s request. The par ...

SOURCE 9 What consideration has moved from the plaintiff to support the promise to pay the extra £10,300 added to the lump sum p ...

SOURCE 10 While consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced, the policy of ...

was already bound to do, there may be consideration. The pre-existing obligation may arise out of a contract between the same pa ...

a helpful teacher for their supply of information, these can seem a little daunting. You can help to ease yourself into these so ...

Initial thoughts You will see from the list of sources that they are a mixture of case judgments and sections from books. They a ...