• Definition of a contract • The rules of offer and acceptance • Consideration • Intention to create legal relations • Formal and Evidentiary requirements • Capacity to Contract - minors - necessaries-beneficial contracts of service

• Contractual Terms and Representations • Express Terms – distinction between representations and terms, the parole evidence rule, collateral contracts • Implied Terms – implied terms at common law, good faith obligations as implied terms, terms implied under statute, terms implied under the Constitution, terms implied by custom. Sale of Goods and Supply of Services Implied Terms. • Exemption Clauses – definition, incorporation of exemption clauses, construction of the exemption clause, the core obligation and exclusion clauses, fundamental breach, refusal to apply exemption clauses, exemption clauses and third parties. • Consumer Protection – standard form contracts • Importance and relative effect of contractual terms

• Mistake – operative mistake (mistake of law, mistake of law in equity, common mistake of fact, common mistake of fact in equity, mistake as to the terms of the agreement, mistake in executing a deed or document, mistake as to title, mistake as to identity), remedies for operative mistake (rescission, rectification, damages), plea of non est factum • Misrepresentation – the statement (including silence as a misrepresentation), the causes of action (fraudulent, negligent and innocent misrepresentation, remedies and rescission. • Importance and relative effect of contractual terms

• Electronic Contracts E-Commerce Contracts including formation, applicable legislation, jurisdiction and the validity of electronic signatures. • Employment Law Employees and independent contractors Formation of employment contracts Terms of employment contracts Protective legislation.

Illegal Contracts – Illegal contracts at common law, statutory illegality, gaming and wagering contracts, the consequences of common law and statutory illegality, exceptions to ex turpi causa and in pari delicto, separate transactions, severance, pleading illegality, remedies. • Void contracts – contracts void at common law (including contracts in restraint of trade), severance of void provisions, repudiatory breach and enforceability.