This week’s topics
Enforceability: Legal Intent and Enforcing Agreements
- Intention to create legal relations in commercial and domestic settings
- Rebuttable presumptions of legal intent
- Consideration and privity rules
- Judicial mechanisms to enforce contractual obligations
- Contract law - Intention to create legal relations - www.e-lawresources.co.uk
- Offer and invitation to treat - Contractual agreement part 1 www.e-lawresources.co.uk
- Contract Law - Consideration www.e-lawresources.co.uk
- Why do we need criminal and civil law?
What you will be able to do
- 1.4 Explain how to enforce a contract.
- 1.5 Explain the terms invitation to treat and the intention to create legal relations.
Activity
Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain how to enforce a contract.
Study materials
Videos
- Contract law - Intention to create legal relations - www.e-lawresources.co.uk · YouTube · e-lawresources · 5 min · for registered students
- Offer and invitation to treat - Contractual agreement part 1 www.e-lawresources.co.uk · YouTube · e-lawresources · 5 min · for registered students
- Contract Law - Consideration www.e-lawresources.co.uk · YouTube · e-lawresources · 8 min · for registered students
- Why do we need criminal and civil law? · Oak National Academy, Key Stage 4 (GCSE level) · for registered students
Further resources
- Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 · Reading · legislation.gov.uk, legislation · for registered students
- Business Law and the Legal Environment, ch. 16: Remedies · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 519–555 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
