King’s Inns BL Contract Law — 2024 Model Answers
The five Contract Law questions from the 2024 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.
Lauren is opening a small bookshop in the centre of town called Reading Leaves. She advertises in the local newspaper: “Opening Offer! Signed First Editions of Famous Novels - €100 each. Limited…
Full model answer covers 10 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2024 Question 1 model answer →Eddie is a professional videographer. He is a friend of Susan, whose wedding is approaching. Susan tells him she cannot find anyone to film the day: the quoted prices are, she says, outrageous, but…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2024 Question 2 model answer →Sarah owns a thriving cake shop, So-Sara-Lee. Much of what makes it work is a product she buys in from her supplier, Bake4Profit. Bake4Profit told her supply would stop unless she took out a lease on…
Full model answer covers 10 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2024 Question 3 model answer →Marie is on friendly terms with Sean, who lives next door. His children are grown and gone, and he is downsizing. He tells Marie she is welcome to buy anything in the house before he moves out. He…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2024 Question 4 model answer →Question 5 is the paper’s reform essay. It sets no facts and names nobody to advise. What it wants is a position on whether the present law should be changed, worked out through decided cases and…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2024 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.
Read the 2020 Question 5 model answer →All years & the Model Answer VaultStudy Contract lawBL Entrance