In this session Philip Barton deals with all Supreme Court and County Court cases over roughly the past 5 years on contracts of sale of land, under the following headings
- Offer and Acceptance including a solicitor’s authority to conclude a contract and a company director’s authority to make a contract
- Masters v Cameron cases – covering the 4 Masters v Cameron categories and contract interpretation
- Statute of Frauds
- Void for Uncertainty
- Estoppel against denying existence of a contract
- Section 32 statements - in particular the effect of no section 32 statement, examples of statements complying or not complying with s 32, and possible excuse of a vendor for non-compliance
- Cooling off under s 31 Sale of Land Act and in particular whether a purchaser can withdraw a cooling-off notice and whether there is any forfeiture of deposit if none of the deposit has been paid
