Category: Contracts

Valuing a Business

There is no exact science to this and ultimately the value of a business is determined by what price a willing buyer will pay for it.

Read More »

Mediation

Agreements reached in mediation are enforceable as contracts if the requirements for a valid contract are satisfied. This means that parties following mediation will seek to formalise the terms of mediation as a contract.

Read More »

Mediation

Agreements reached in mediation are enforceable as contracts if the requirements for a valid contract are satisfied. This means that parties following mediation will seek to formalise the terms of mediation as a contract.

Read More »

Unfair Contract Terms

An unfair term contained within a contract is not binding on the consumer this is governed by the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts 1999 (the Act).

Read More »

Contract Law: Battle of the Forms

This is the third in a series of articles on contract law. The previous two have looked at the rules regarding offer and acceptance, this short note considers some of the problems associated with offer and acceptance.

Read More »

Contract Law: The Acceptance

The second in this series of articles on the basics of contract law looks at acceptance of an offer. We have already seen in the last article that in order for there to be a valid contract there must be a valid acceptance.

Read More »

Contract Law: The Acceptance

The second in this series of articles on the basics of contract law looks at acceptance of an offer. We have already seen in the last article that in order for there to be a valid contract there must be a valid acceptance.

Read More »

Contract Law: The Offer

This is the first in a series of articles explaining the basics of contract law. Contract law governs the regulation of trade take the following for example: “contract law has many ‘purposes’, but the central one is to support and to control the millions of agreements that collectively make up the ‘market economy'”.

Read More »