Contract Law Lectures
Formation, terms, breach, remedies, and problem-question structure for contract law revision.
These contract law lectures are organised around the moves students actually need in exams: identify the promise, classify the agreement, isolate the broken obligation, and link the remedy back to the governing rule.
What these lectures cover
Offer and acceptance, including unilateral offers, invitations to treat, and timing disputes.
Consideration, promissory estoppel, intention to create legal relations, and contract variation.
Express and implied terms, exclusion clauses, misrepresentation, and unfair terms control.
Breach, remoteness, mitigation, specific performance, and expectation versus reliance loss.
Authority checkpoints
- Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co for unilateral offers and acceptance by conduct.
- Currie v Misa and Williams v Roffey Bros for consideration and practical benefit analysis.
- Hadley v Baxendale for remoteness and the structure of contractual damages.
- Photo Production v Securicor and Consumer Rights Act style analysis for exclusion clauses.
How to use these notes in exams
- Start every answer by identifying whether the dispute is about formation, terms, vitiating factors, or remedies.
- Separate validity questions from remedy questions so the marker can follow the sequence of analysis.
- When two rules compete, explain why one controls on these facts instead of listing both abstractly.
Next steps
Move from lecture notes into questions and case work while the rules are still fresh.