NCA Contracts study plan
NCA Contracts · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Nature and Formation of Contracts & Offer and Acceptance
Explain the elements of a valid contract and distinguish bilateral from unilateral contracts
Analyze the rules on offer and acceptance, including communication, revocation, and rejection
Apply the postal rule and its exceptions to fact patterns
Compare invitation to treat with offer using at least three case examples
Your checkpoint
Write a 500-word summary comparing offer and acceptance rules, with a table of key distinctions and two worked examples.
Offer and Acceptance & Consideration and Intention to Create Legal Relations
Evaluate consideration in different contexts, including past consideration and promissory estoppel
Assess intention to create legal relations in commercial and domestic agreements
Apply the rules on certainty of terms and agreements to negotiate
Identify when consideration is sufficient but not adequate
Your checkpoint
Create a one-page flowchart for determining enforceability of an agreement based on consideration and intention.
Capacity and Formal Requirements & Terms, Interpretation, and Contractual Clauses
Explain capacity issues including minors, mental incapacity, and intoxicated persons
Describe formal requirements for contracts, including deeds and writing requirements
Distinguish between terms and representations
Classify contractual terms as conditions, warranties, and innominate terms
Your checkpoint
Draft a 600-word case note on a capacity case and a terms classification exercise with five examples.
Terms, Interpretation, and Contractual Clauses & Vitiating Factors (Misrepresentation, Mistake, Duress, Undue Influence, Illegality)
Interpret exclusion clauses using the contra proferentem rule and statutory controls
Analyze misrepresentation types and remedies available
Apply the doctrine of mistake, including common and mutual mistake
Distinguish duress and undue influence with examples
Your checkpoint
Complete a 10-question multiple-choice quiz on vitiating factors and write a 300-word explanation of exclusion clause regulation.
Vitiating Factors (Misrepresentation, Mistake, Duress, Undue Influence, Illegality) & Performance, Breach, and Discharge
Evaluate illegality in contracts and its effects
Explain the rules on performance, including substantial performance and divisible contracts
Analyze breach types and discharge by frustration
Apply the concept of anticipatory breach
Your checkpoint
Produce a comparative table of discharge methods with case examples and a 400-word analysis of a frustration scenario.
Performance, Breach, and Discharge & Remedies and Damages
Calculate damages using expectation and reliance measures
Explain remoteness of damage using the Hadley v Baxendale rules
Describe equitable remedies including specific performance and injunction
Apply mitigation of loss principles
Your checkpoint
Solve two damages calculation problems and write a 500-word memo on remedies for breach.
Nature and Formation of Contracts & Offer and Acceptance & Consideration and Intention to Create Legal Relations & Capacity and Formal Requirements
Review formation, offer and acceptance, consideration, and capacity through practice questions
Identify weak areas from earlier quizzes and create flashcards
Apply rules to complex fact patterns under timed conditions
Your checkpoint
Complete a 20-question timed quiz covering domains 1-4 with a score of at least 80% and a list of three areas for improvement.
Terms, Interpretation, and Contractual Clauses & Vitiating Factors (Misrepresentation, Mistake, Duress, Undue Influence, Illegality) & Performance, Breach, and Discharge & Remedies and Damages
Review terms, vitiating factors, discharge, and remedies through practice questions
Synthesize all domains in a full-length mock exam
Refine exam technique for issue-spotting and application
Your checkpoint
Complete a full-length mock exam under timed conditions and write a self-assessment identifying strengths and weaknesses.
Milestones
Week 4: Score at least 70% on a 10-question quiz covering domains 1-3 and submit a one-page summary of key rules.
Week 6: Successfully solve two damages problems and explain the Hadley v Baxendale rules without notes.
Week 8: Achieve a score of at least 75% on the full-length mock exam and complete a reflective self-assessment.