Module 01 - Offer and Acceptance
Topics
- Objective meaning in contract
- The role of estoppel
- The role of fault
- Offer and Acceptance analysis
- Departure from traditional offer and acceptance analysis
- Implied Agreement
- Offer or invitation to treat?
- Unilateral and bilateral contracts
- Offer and acceptance in unilateral contracts
- Revocation of offer of unilateral contract
- Motive of acceptor
- Acceptance in unilateral contracts
- Offer and acceptance in bilateral contracts
- Communication of offers in bilateral contracts
- Acceptance in bilateral contracts
- Rejection by counter-proposal
- Battle of the forms
- Communication of Acceptance
- Postal acceptance rule
- Communication of acceptance – instantaneous communications
- Instantaneous communications – Failure of systems
- Instantaneous communications – Agreement as to place of contract
Cases
- Adams v Lindsell (1818) 1 B & Ald 681, 106 ER 250 KB
- Allied Marine Ltd v Vale do Rio Doce SA, The Leonidas D [1985] 1 WLR 925
- Apple Corp Ltd v Apple Computer Inc [2004] EWHC 768 (Ch)
- Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v Marks & Spencer plc [2001] EWCA Civ 274; [2002] 1 All ER (Comm) 737 CA
- Barry v Davis [2000] 1 WLR 1962 CA
- Bernuth Lines Limited v High Seas Shipping Ltd [2006] 1 Lloyds Rep. 537
- Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club Ltd v Blackpool Borough Council [1990] 1 WLR 1195 CA
- Brinkibon v Stahag Stahl und Stahlwarenhandesgesellschaft mbH [1983] 2 AC 34; [1982] 2 WLR 264 HL
- Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corporation (England) Ltd [1979] 1 WLR 401 CA
- Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v. Ex-Cell-O Corporation Ltd [1979] 1 All ER 965 CA
- Byrne v Van Tienhoven (1850) 5 CPD 344
- Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1893] 1 QB 256 CA
- Centrovincial Estates plc v Merchant Investors Assurance Company Ltd [1983] Com LR 158 CA
- Clarke v Dunraven, “The Satanita” [1897] AC 59
- Daulia v Four Milbank Nominees Ltd [1978] 2 All ER 557 CA
- Eliason v Henshaw (1819) Wheat 225
- Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corporation [1955] QB 327 CA
- Errington v Errington [1952] 1 All ER 149 CA
- Esso Petroleum Ltd v Commissioners of Customs and Excise [1976] 1 WLR 1 HL
- Felthouse v Bindley (1862) 11 CBNS 869
- G. Percy Trentham v Archital Luxfer Ltd [1993] 1 Lloyds Rep 25, 27
- Gibson v. Manchester City Council [1978] 1 W.L.R. 520 CA; [1979] 1 W.L.R. 294 HL
- Great Northern Railway v Witham (1873) LR 9 CP 16
- Harris v Nickerson (1873) LR 8 QB 286
- Hartog v Colin & Shields [1939] 3 All ER 566
- Harvela Investments Ltd v. Royal Trust Co of Canada Ltd [1986] AC 207 HL
- Henthorn v Fraser [1892] 2 Ch 27 CA
- Holwell Securities Ltd v Hughes [1974] 1 WLR 155 CA
- Household Fire & Carriage Accident Insurance Co Ltd v Grant (1878-79) LR 4 Ex D 216 CA
- Hyde v Wrench (1840) 3 Beav 334, 49 ER 132
- Luxor (Eastbourne) Limited v Cooper [1941] AC 108 HL
- Paal Wilson & Co A/S v Partenreederei, The Hannah Blumenthal [1983] 1 AC 854; [1982] 3 WLR 1149 HL
- Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots Cash Chemists (Southern) Ltd [1953] 1 QB 401 CA
- Powell v Lee (1908) 99 LT 284
- R v. Clarke (1927) 40 CLR 227
- Rayfield v Hands [1960] Ch. 1
- Sherrington v Berwin Leighton Paisner [2006] EWCA Civ 1319 CA
- Spencer v Harding (1870) LR 5 CP 561
- Stevenson, Jacques & Co v McLean (1880) 5 QBD 346
- Tamplin v James (1880) 15 Ch D 215 CA
- The Aramis [1989] 1 Lloyds Rep 213
- The Brimnes [1975] QB 929 CA
- The Hannah Blumenthal [1983] 1 AC 854
- The Leonidas D [1985] 1 WLR 925
- The Queen (on application of Software Solutions Partners Limited) v Her Majesty's Commissioners for Customs and Excise [2007] EWHC 971 (Admin)
- The Splendid Sun [1981] QB 694
- Thomas v BPE Solicitors [2010] EWHC 306
- Thornton v Shoe Lane Parking Ltd [1971] 2 QB 163 CA
- Tinn v Hoffman (1873) 29 LT 271
- Warlow v Harrison (1859) 120 ER 925, Exchequer Chamber
- Williams v Carwardine (1833) 5 C&P 566, 172 ER 1104
