Contract Law Assignment: Offer, Acceptance, Revocation, and Postal Rules

Learning Outcomes for the item of assessment

Learning Outcomes for the item of assessment
This item of assessment covers the following learning outcomes. For the full list of learning outcomes for the module, please refer to the Module Study Guide.
• Demonstrate an understanding and application of law governing businesses and assess its effectiveness
• Identify the main sources of law and essential elements of the legal system
• Apply relevant legal rules relating to the law of obligations
• Understand and be able to apply the law in a specified business situation/hypothetical scenario
• Understand corporate fraudulent and criminal behaviour
• Develop the key skills of self-management (C2) and problem solving (C4)

Assessment Grading
Your work will be marked in grades rather than percentages. This is considered to deliver the most accurate and fair outcomes for students. Each assignment that you undertake will be assessed using the common grading system. Information about the grading system can be found in your Student Handbook.

The Grade Criteria can be found in Appendix C of your Student Handbook

 

Assessment 1 Details
Task
• This assignment constitutes 40% of the final module grade.
• The word count is 2,000 words.
• This assignment should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file.
• The assignment must be your own work. You are reminded of the Academic Integrity Policy and ensure you check your Turnitin similarity score before final submission.
• Your reference list should be separate from the assignment.
• You should follow the Harvard referencing system.

 

James writes a letter to Elizabeth Turner, 123 Gateway House, London, SW9 1AA, offering to sell his van for £3,000. On receiving the letter Elizabeth sends a post card to James on 12 December 2019 which reads “will you accept £2,900 for the van?”. The post card was correctly addressed and posted at 12.50pm using a first class stamp ensuring a next day arrival. But later the same day,
Elizabeth changes her mind and sends a letter at 3.00pm to James accepting his offer of £3,000. The letter was correctly addressed to Dr James Cork, 346 Board Lane, Herefordshire, HR2 7PP, and sent on time for a next day arrival. The post card and letter arrive simultaneously at James’s
house on 13 December 2019. James reads the post card first. 

Discuss whether a valid contract has been made between James and Elizabeth using the rules of offer, acceptance, revocation and postal rules.

 

Submission requirements
You are required to submit this assignment by Friday/06 March 2020/3pm. You must submit your assignment by using the Turnitin gateway in the module’s Canvas site.

Assessment Grading

Please Note: When you submit you will be asked to confirm you have referred to the Submission Checklist (see Appendix 1) and the act of submitting your work electronically will be taken as an acceptance of the Declaration of Authorship (see Appendix 2).

 

Extensions and Mitigating Circumstances
Information on Extensions and Mitigating Circumstances can be found in the Student Handbook, Section 10.

Applications for extensions and mitigating circumstances, with supporting evidence (such as medical certificates) should be made through the Student Self-service Portal (SSP).

Word Limits
All written assignments include clear guidance on the maximum amount that should be written in order to address the requirements of the assessment task (a ‘word limit’).

If the submission exceeds the word limit by more than 10%, the submission will only be marked up to and including the additional 10%. Anything over this will not be included in the final grade for the item of assessment.

Abstracts, reference lists, and footnotes are excluded from any word limit requirements. Where a submission is notably under the word limit, the full submission will be marked on the extent to which the requirements of the assessment task have been met. Generally speaking, submissions under the word limit fall short of the requirements of the assessment task.

Appendix 1: Submission Checklist
1. Have you checked Canvas messages/announcements for any additional/final details of the assessment?
2. Are you submitting in the correct submission area?
3. Make sure you are submitting the correct final version of your work.
4. Have you kept to the word limit? Remember, anything greater than 10% above the word count will not be marked.
5. Have you addressed the assessment requirements as outlined in the Assessment Brief?
6. Have you spell checked and proofread your work?
7. Is your work formatted correctly and consistently?
8. Are you submitting a document in the correct format?
9. Is your work written in an appropriate academic style?
10. Have you checked your citations and Reference List/Bibliography?
11. Have you submitted your work to get a similarity report to check you have paraphrased where required?
12. Have you read the Declaration of Authorship in Appendix 2 of the Assessment Brief?

Appendix 2: Declaration of Authorship
By submitting this work electronically to Bloomsbury Institute and the University of Northampton, I/we confirm that I/we have read and understood the Declaration and Definitions below:

Declaration of Authorship:
1. I/we hold a copy of this assignment which can be produced if the original is lost/damaged.
2. This assignment is my/our original work and no part of it has been copied from any other student’s work or from any other source except where due acknowledgement has been made.

3. No part of this assignment has been written for me/us by any other person except where such collaboration has been authorised and as detailed in the Assessment Brief.
4. I/we have not previously submitted this work for any other course/module.

 

Definitions
I/we understand that:
5. Plagiarism is the presentation of the work, idea or creation of another person as though it is one’s own. It is a form of cheating and is a serious academic offence which may lead to expulsion. Plagiarised material can be drawn from, and presented in, written, graphic and visual form, including electronic data, and oral presentations. Plagiarism occurs when the origin of the material used is not appropriately cited. 6. Collusion is working with someone else on an assessment task which is intended to be wholly your own work.
7. Contract cheating/Commissioning is where you contract out academic assessment to writers and purchase back the finished work and submit it as your own.
8. Duplication/Replication is submitting the same material more than once for the purposes of obtaining academic credit.
9. Fabrication refers specifically to the falsification of data, information or citations in an academic exercise, typically an assignment. This includes false excuses for missing deadlines and false claims to have submitted work. It may be specifically referred to as falsification.
10. Your completed assignment is submitted and checked for plagiarism through the use of plagiarism detection software called Turnitin. The Course Leader’s decision based on the plagiarism report is final; no appeal may be made by a student once such a decision is made.