{"id":518,"date":"2018-03-07T09:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T09:27:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:02:31","slug":"law-essay-writing-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawteacher.net\/law-help\/essay\/law-essay-writing-intro.php","title":{"rendered":"Planning Your Law Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Planning Your Law Essay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The next step is to plan your essay: as we identified, the minimum requirements will be an introduction, body and conclusion, unless you are dealing with a report or dissertation.<\/p>\n<p>When you have done some research, you may wish to make a rough plan of where you intend to go with the essay. For example:<\/p>\n<h3>Question:<\/h3>\n<p>Recent case law suggests that litigants are generally better advised to pursue a claim in misrepresentation rather than for breach of contract. Discuss.<\/p>\n<h3>Comment:<\/h3>\n<p>Note that the question asks you to \u2018discuss\u2019 \u2013 this requires that you offer an explanation of the issue\/quote and then give two or more sides of the issue and any implications.<\/p>\n<p>This question calls for a general comparison of the remedies for misrepresentation and breach of contract, but more specifically, it requires a focus on the recent body of case law from the Court of Appeal in which damages under Section 2 of the Misrepresentation Act (1967) have been equated with those available for an action in deceit. Your answer should therefore include a comparison of the following points:<\/p>\n<p>(a) the availability of rescission and repudiation;<\/p>\n<p>(b) the basis upon which damages are awarded in misrepresentation and for breach of contract.<\/p>\n<h2>Sample Law Essay Plan<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For a pre-contractual statement constituting both a breach of contract and misrepresentation, the representee must choose which action to pursue. Which is best?<\/li>\n<li>Remedies for breach of contract (repudiation and\/or damages), remedies for misrepresentation (rescission and\/or damages)<\/li>\n<li>What the essay will cover: a consideration of the availability of repudiation and rescission the basis for awarding damages in each area.<\/li>\n<li>Contract remedies depend on whether the term which the defendant has broken is a condition or warranty, whereas in misrepresentation it is the culpability of the defendant which determines the available remedies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Body<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The difference between repudiation and rescission<\/li>\n<li>How contract terms are classified and why this is important<\/li>\n<li>The basis for awarding damages for breach of contract<\/li>\n<li>The basis of awarding damages for misrepresentation<\/li>\n<li>The advantages of suing under Section 2 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967<\/li>\n<li>The relevance of contributory negligence, fraud and direct consequences damages, and loss of opportunity damages<\/li>\n<li>Use of a deceit measure for all non-innocent misrepresentations, disregard of any foreseeability criterion<\/li>\n<li>Potentially enhanced recovery of non-pecuniary losses<\/li>\n<li>Award of quasi \u2018loss of bargain\u2019 damages<\/li>\n<li>Contrast with difficulties recovering damages for innocent misrepresentations<\/li>\n<li>Possible bars to rescission including exercise of judicial discretion under Section 2(2) of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 (per William Sindall plc v Cambridgeshire County Council (1994) 1 WLR 1016)<\/li>\n<li>General emphasis on reliance losses in tort<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Summarise main issues\/comparisons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LawTeacher.net guides you in Planning Your Law Essay. 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