King’s Inns BL Contract Law — 2021 Model Answers
The five Contract Law questions from the 2021 King’s Inns Barrister-at-Law entrance examination, each with an independently authored LawShortcut model answer. Question 1 is the compulsory problem; Questions 2—5 carry 25 marks each.
Acme Industries DAC is a contract bottler: it manufactures and bottles perfume under licence for a range of client companies. From early January it was in negotiation with Elderflower Perfumes DAC…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2021 Question 1 model answer →A wedding dress was advertised for sale in a local newspaper: “Wedding dress for sale: €1000 no offers, must pay cash in full”. Sharon saw it and went to see the seller, Mary. She wanted the dress…
Full model answer covers 10 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2021 Question 2 model answer →Michael and Dwight were friends. At lunch one day Michael brandished a screenshot of a Mill-EU-naire lottery ticket and announced loudly that his psychic had foretold a great fortune. He had bought…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2021 Question 3 model answer →Phil turned up at Clare’s door one day, looking for work about the house. She had a long list of jobs, and they agreed that if he did the full list she would pay him €3,000. She made one condition…
Full model answer covers 9 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2021 Question 4 model answer →Question 5 on the 2021 paper is the reform essay. It supplies no facts and asks for no advice. What it wants is a view on whether the present law should be changed, and it directs that the view be…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2021 Question 5 model answer →Comres Ltd is a well-established national estate agency and surveying practice. In 2018 it handled the sale of an office block owned by A Ltd and, in its brochure, put the floor…
Full model answer covers 5 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 2 model answer →A consignment of screen protectors, phone covers and headphones arrived at Mr A's shop and sat by the back door for several days. A rival trader, Mr B , took it away.…
Full model answer covers 4 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 3 model answer →The Daily Page ran an investigation into senators' expenses. It uncovered exaggerated claims by some senators but turned up nothing implicating Senator A . Even so, it published, in both its print…
Full model answer covers 5 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2020 Question 4 model answer →This is an essay question with no fact pattern. Candidates are invited to evaluate, in a critical way, how the higher courts have construed the Statute of Limitations 1957 together with the…
Full model answer covers 9 issues across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
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