Law of Contract
Contract Formation
- Offer and acceptance
- Invitations to treat
- Status of tenders
- Consideration
- Intention to create legal relations
- Contractual capacity
- Privity of contract
Contractual Terms and Formalities
- Formalities
- Terms of contract
- Express and implied terms
- Conditions, innominate terms and warranties
Vitiating Factors
- Mistake
- Misrepresentation
- Duress and undue influence
- Illegality and invalidity
Exclusion Clauses
- Common law control
- Statutory control
- Unfair contract terms
- Criminal control
Termination and Remedies
- Performance
- Agreement
- Frustration
- Breach
- Remedies
Law of Agency
- Role of an agent
- Creation of an agency
- Authority
- Duties arising from agency
- Principal/agent relationship
- Principal/third party relationship
- Agency/third party relationship
- Termination of agency
- Commercial agents
Supply of Goods and Services
Implied Conditions
- Contract of sale
- Right to sell
- Sale by description
- Satisfactory quality
- Fitness for purpose
- Sale by sample
- Acceptance
- Modification of remedies
- Exclusion of liability
Supply of Goods and Services
- Implied conditions
- Implied conditions in services
Delivery and Payment
- Delivery and payment
- Remedies
Passage of Title and Risk
- Specific, ascertained and unascertained goods
- Passage of title
- Passage of risk
- Sale by a non-owner
Law of Tort
Negligence
- Duty of care
- Causation
- Defences
- Recoverable damage
- Negligent misstatement
- Vicarious liability
Product Liability
- American experience
- Consumer protection legislation
Consumer Protection
Criminal Liability for False Statements
- Trade descriptions legislation
- Prices
- Property misdescriptions
Product Safety
- General product safety regulations
- Consumer protection legislation
- Health and safety
- Legislation
Food Safety
- Food
- Sale and commercial operations
- Food safety offences
- Notices and orders
- Consumer protection
- Regulation
- Codes of practice
- Defences
- Enforcement
Weights and Measures
- Offences of short weight or measure
- Regulated packages
Related Legislation
Legal Aspects of Outsourcing
- Tenders
- Letters of intent and comfort
- Procurement directives
- Compulsory competitive tendering
- Transfer of undertakings
Competition Law
- Competition acts
- Fair trading legislation
Intellectual Property
- Breach of confidence and passing off
- Patents
- Copyright
- Designs
- Trade marks
International Trade
- Bills of lading
- CIF and FOB contracts
- Documentary credits
Insurance
- Types of insurance
- Insurable interest
- The contract
- Role of agents
- Claims
- Subrogation
Example Candidate Response Booklet
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