This week’s topics
Vitiating Factors: Misrepresentation and Mistake
- Fraudulent, negligent, and wholly innocent misrepresentation
- Inducement and available bars to rescission
- Categories of operative mistake: common, mutual, and unilateral
- Mistake as to identity and the plea of non est factum
- Misrepresentation www.e-lawresources.co.uk
- Mistake in Contract Law - SQE1 Contract Law Revision
- Chapter 9- Vitiating Factors Misrepresentation Mistake Duress and Undue Influence - Contract Law
What you will be able to do
- 3.1 Outline various types of contractual mistakes.
- 3.2 Outline different types of misrepresentation.
Activity
Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: outline various types of contractual mistakes.
Study materials
Videos
- Misrepresentation www.e-lawresources.co.uk · YouTube · e-lawresources · 8 min · for registered students
- Mistake in Contract Law - SQE1 Contract Law Revision · YouTube · New to Law: Study Help · 9 min · for registered students
- Chapter 9- Vitiating Factors Misrepresentation Mistake Duress and Undue Influence - Contract Law · YouTube · SQE1window · 16 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Misrepresentation Act 1967 · Reading · legislation.gov.uk, legislation · for registered students
- Business Law and the Legal Environment, ch. 10: Real Assent · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 332–366 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
