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Fundamentals Of Law 1502

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BULAW 1502: Fundamentals of Law
Assignment Topic Due Date: Friday, noon, of week 9

Name- Supreet Singh
Student ID- 30306815
Lecturer- Nadine Clode
Q1. Office Supply brings a claim for breach of contract against CompuHelp. Discuss whether Office Supply and CompuHelp formed an enforceable contract, AND whether Office Supply is likely to win its lawsuit?

Ans. In the case of CompuHelp and Office Supply:

To discuss whether CompuHelp and Office Supply formed an enforceable contract we have to go through the essential elements of a valid contract.
• Offer: “Offer has a special meaning in contract law. An offer exists where one person indicates to another a willingness to enter into a binding agreement on certain terms.” (Sweeney, Reilly, & Coleman, 2013). An offer is considered as a proposal from the offeror that contains some certain terms, which can be accepted or rejected by the offeree. An offer must be escorted by an aim to be legally bound. In the given case, an offer was emailed to John, the owner of Office Supply from CompyHelp’s salesperson Sophie. Offer is not a request for information. It was an offer not an invitation or an advertisement (Partridge V Crittenden [1968] 1 WLR 1204).

• Acceptance: The contract is said to be made once the offer has been accepted. An offer is accepted by the offeree when the offeree accepts certain terms of the offeror. While accepting offer certain rules are to be applied such as only the offeree can accept the

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