KCL LLB Law · Year 1
KCL Elements of the Law of Contract
Elements of the Law of Contract is a Year 1 module on the King's College London LLB Law. The law of agreements: when a promise becomes legally binding, what its terms mean, when it can be escaped, and what happens when it is broken. The backbone of the first-year qualifying-law syllabus.
What Elements of the Law of Contract covers
- Offer and acceptance
- Consideration and promissory estoppel
- Intention to create legal relations
- Terms — express, implied and their classification
- Misrepresentation
- Mistake, duress and undue influence
- Frustration
- Breach and remedies
How to revise Elements of the Law of Contract at KCL
Start from the leading cases — every elements of the law of contract answer turns on them. Brief each one (facts, issue, held, ratio), then practise applying it to past-paper questions under timed conditions. Our Elements of the Law of Contract topic hub collects the canonical cases and how they fit together. When you write a practice answer, run it through Quill for exam-grade feedback grounded in the case law, and cite everything with the free OSCOLA generator.
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