- How do you create a valid and legally enforceable contract?
- What evidence do you need to prove that you have a valid contract?
- How does the Court conduct contract dispute cases?
- How to prevent an accidentally created verbal contract?
- Understand how an ‘offer’ could be accepted through your conduct
- How do you legally invite others to make an offer, including tenders (Hughes case) and auctions?
- What happens to your contract if you have no consideration? How to get around lack of consideration?
- Are your MOUs, MOAs and Letters of Intent legally binding (Ermogenous case)?
- What can damage a contract once it has been created?
- In a dispute whose contractual terms do we use, yours or mine? (Battle of the forms: Butler Machine case)
- Why do we need contractual ‘certainty’, and how do you establish it (Whitlock v Brew case)?
Interactive Activity - Unauthorised variations: a review of a facilities management contract where a variation went horribly wrong.