SCENARIO

You are a solicitor working for a firm which provides a series of seminars for clients wanting to set up a business for the first time. Your task is to produce a written report, to be given to each client attending the seminar, setting out in “user friendly” style the principles of law relating to the formation of a valid contract and their application in business situations.

You have decided to produce the information as a set of questions and answers with an analysis of several case studies to illustrate the legal principles.

Explain the significant differences between the following types of contracts and discuss the impact on the parties of those differences:

a. Standard form contracts,

b. Contracts made face to face,

c. Contracts in writing, and

d. Contracts for distance selling?

e. legal capacity