King’s Inns BL Contract Law — 2025 Model Answers
The five Contract Law questions from the 2025 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.
Cathal runs a financial services firm in Dublin with clients abroad. At a dinner party on 4 February he fell into conversation with his friend Brandon, a freelance web developer, about giving his…
Full model answer covers 12 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2025 Question 1 model answer →In April 2025 Shannon set out to buy a second-hand car for the commute to a new job in Manchester. She called into a used car dealership and dealt with John, who owns it. John brought her to a 2020…
Full model answer covers 11 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2025 Question 2 model answer →Kevin, a marketing executive, spent several hours at a work celebration in a local pub. He drank a significant amount of alcohol and by the end of the evening was noticeably intoxicated. In that…
Full model answer covers 9 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2025 Question 3 model answer →Kelly runs a go-kart business, Kelly Go-Karts. Anyone who wants to take a kart onto the track must first sign a contract, and among its terms is an exemption clause. The clause says, in substance,…
Full model answer covers 9 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2025 Question 4 model answer →Question 5 is the paper’s reform essay. There are no facts and nobody to advise. What is wanted is a position on whether the present law should be changed, argued through decided cases and…
Full model answer covers 8 sections across reading the question, the law, application and conclusions.
Read the 2025 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