Scheme of work: Contract law This scheme of work suggests how to deliver the Contract law section of our A-level Law specification (7162). 3.4 Contract law Week Specification content and skills Activities and resources Notes Offer and acceptance: Explain and give examples of Identify the reasons why many 1 unilateral and bilateral contracts. invitations to treat cannot be offers. unilateral and bilateral contracts Analyse the differences between Identify some examples of invitations offers invitations to treat and offers. to treat and offers eg newspapers, invitations to treat. retail websites and supermarket Read the following What ‘offers’. principles can we take from this case? Go onto the following and complete the quiz. Offer and acceptance (continued): Explain lapse of offers and Be careful to identify when the postal 2 acceptance. rule will apply and explain the lapse of offers exceptions. Analyse the differences between acceptance the normal rules of acceptance Prepare a chart of the key offer and postal rule. and the postal rule. acceptance cases. Theory of contract law offer and Identification of a range of issues. Students will need both examples – 3 acceptance: and discussion of any issues raised. Analysis of the issues: offers, unilateral offers and justifications and criticisms. Analyse the postal rule in terms of its invitations to treat historical context, modern forms of electronic communication and the acceptances, including the world of 24-hour business with postal rule. communications through the night.
Scheme of work: Contract law This scheme of work suggests how to deliver the Contract law section of our A-level Law specification (7162). 3.4 Contract law Week Specification content and skills Activities and resources Notes 1 Offer and acceptance: unilateral and bilateral contracts offers invitations to treat. Explain and give examples of unilateral and bilateral contracts. Analyse the differences between invitations to treat and offers. Read the following What principles can we take from this case? Go onto the following and complete the quiz. Identify the reasons why many invitations to treat cannot be offers. Identify some examples of invitations to treat and offers eg newspapers, retail websites and supermarket ‘offers’. 2 Offer and acceptance (continued): lapse of offers acceptance postal rule. Explain lapse of offers and acceptance. Analyse the differences between the normal rules of acceptance and the postal rule. Be careful to identify when the postal rule will apply and explain the exceptions. Prepare a chart of the key offer and acceptance cases. 3 Theory of contract law – offer and acceptance: offers, unilateral offers and invitations to treat acceptances, including the postal rule. Identification of a range of issues. Analysis of the issues: justifications and criticisms. Students will need both examples and discussion of any issues raised. Analyse the postal rule in terms of its historical context, modern forms of electronic communication and the world of 24-hour business with communications through the night.
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