What is the difference between Gibson v Manchester City Council and Storer v Manchester City Council? Why was one claimant found to have had a valid contract with the Council and the other had only been made an invitation to treat? Let’s compare…
Is Stilk v Myrick still good law? Stilk v Myrick (1809) (HC) is a contract law case dealing with consideration that all law students will have come across. It’s almost always juxtaposed to Hartley v Ponsonby (1857) (HC). It’s one of the older cases that…
Currie v Misa…Misa v Currie? What is a Bill of Exchange? What is consideration? Consideration can be difficult enough to understand without extra confusion about case names and complicated commercial concepts. So why is the case sometimes known as Currie v Misa (1875)…
‘It is as if the facts of this case have been devised for an examination question on the law of contract for first year law students. They raise some basic questions in relation to offer and acceptance in the law of formation of contract.’ Dyson LJ…
What are the facts of Donoghue v Stevenson? Mrs May Donoghue, like Mrs Carlill, is a woman whose legal case advanced the law into a new area. Her case brought in the concept of negligence law – that parties such as manufacturers could owe a duty…
Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Company (1892), heard in the Court of Appeal, is a seminal contract law case dealing with unilateral offers and touching upon all of the essential elements of a legal contract including intention to create legal relations, acceptance and consideration. The Offer…
I distinctly remember one of the Humanities teachers coming to our Tutor Group and telling us about VAK learning styles – visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. She learnt things by making up songs about them…an auditory learner…what were we? I’ve always put myself in the visual learner…
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