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Level 4 Diploma in Law

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

LAW403 · Contract Law — Week 14 of 16

CourseLAW403
Week14 of 16
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This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

  1. Drafting against the criteria
  2. Tutor and peer feedback
  3. Improving the final submission

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Describe how to make a legally binding offer and acceptance.
  • 1.2 Explain how offer and acceptance may be withdrawn.
  • 1.3 Explain the terms invitation to treat and the intention to create legal relations.
  • 1.4 Analyse the role of consideration in contractual agreements.
  • 2.1 Define statutory express terms.
  • 2.2 Explain how terms may be implied in common law.
  • 2.3 Evaluate the validity of exclusion clauses.
  • 3.1 Describe various types of contractual mistake and misrepresentation.
  • 3.2 Analyse how lack of capacity, illegality and public policy may void a contract.
  • 3.3 Assess how undue influence and duress may void a contract.
  • 4.1 Explain various types of contract breach, including anticipatory and repudiatory breach.
  • 4.2 Describe the calculation of damages for breach of contract.
  • 4.3 Assess the role of equitable remedies in contractual breach.

Activity

Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Parties, making and communicating offers and acceptance
  • Week 2: Revocation of offers and withdrawal of acceptance
  • Week 3: Consideration, promissory estoppel and privity of contract
  • Week 4: Express terms and incorporation
  • Week 5: Exclusion and limitation clauses: common law incorporation,…
  • Week 6: Misrepresentation (fraudulent, negligent, innocent) and mis…
  • Week 7: Capacity (minors, necessaries, intoxication), statutory ill…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Breach of contract: anticipatory and repudiatory breach and…
  • Week 10: Damages: expectation loss, market value, loss of enjoyment
  • Week 11: Equitable remedies (rectification, specific performance, in…
  • Week 12: Applying Contract Law in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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