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Priestley 11
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The LPAB Diploma in Law is a non-university route to becoming a lawyer in New South Wales, run by the Legal Profession Admission Board and taught by the Law Extension Committee of the University of Sydney. Instead of a university degree, students sit standardized written examinations in individual subjects, held once a year in September. To earn the Diploma, a student-at-law must pass 20 of the 27 examinable subjects: all Group A compulsory subjects plus three of the Group B electives. The curriculum covers the Priestley 11 core admission subjects - including Contracts, Torts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Real Property, Australian Constitutional Law, Equity, Law of Associations, Administrative Law, Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Professional Conduct - all in Australian and NSW law. Each subject is graded against a pass mark set by the LPAB, and pass rates are not published. Completing the Diploma satisfies the academic requirements for admission as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of NSW; overseas-qualified lawyers may instead be directed to complete a set of prescribed subjects.
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1Anna posts a sign in her shop window reading 'Premium leather wallets - $40'. Ben enters and says 'I'll take one for $40'. Anna refuses to sell. On orthodox Australian contract principles, what is the legal nature of the shop-window sign?
A.A binding offer that Ben accepted by saying he would take one
B.An invitation to treat, so Ben's statement is the offer which Anna may refuse
C.A unilateral offer accepted by Ben's conduct in entering the shop
D.A conditional acceptance creating an enforceable option
Explanation: A display of goods with a price is generally an invitation to treat, not an offer (Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain v Boots; Fisher v Bell). The customer makes the offer, which the seller is free to accept or reject, so Anna may refuse to sell.
2A signed written contract for the sale of a business contains an entire agreement clause. The purchaser later argues a term should be implied to give the contract business efficacy. Under the orthodox test from BP Refinery (Westernport) v Shire of Hastings, which requirement must an implied term satisfy?
A.It must be inconsistent with the express terms but commercially convenient
B.It must be so obvious that it goes without saying and necessary for business efficacy
C.It need only be reasonable in the circumstances, regardless of obviousness
D.It must have been discussed by the parties during negotiations
Explanation: BP Refinery v Shire of Hastings sets five cumulative conditions for implying a term in fact: reasonable and equitable, necessary for business efficacy, so obvious it goes without saying, capable of clear expression, and not contradicting any express term. Mere reasonableness is insufficient.
3A consumer buys a new dishwasher from a retailer; it stops working after three weeks due to a manufacturing defect. The retailer says the manufacturer's express warranty has been voided. Under the Australian Consumer Law (Sch 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)), what is the consumer's strongest basis to obtain a remedy from the retailer?
A.The manufacturer's express warranty, which the retailer cannot void
B.An action in negligence against the retailer for the defective product
C.The doctrine of caveat emptor, which protects the buyer
D.The consumer guarantee of acceptable quality, which cannot be excluded by contract
Explanation: Under s 54 of the Australian Consumer Law, goods supplied in trade must be of acceptable quality; this statutory consumer guarantee cannot be excluded, restricted or modified (s 64). A major failure entitles the consumer to a remedy from the supplier regardless of any voided express warranty.
4A builder repudiates a fixed-price construction contract before completion. The owner accepts the repudiation and sues for damages. Which principle governs the measure of damages recoverable for the breach?
A.The owner is entitled to damages putting them in the position they would have been in had the contract been performed
B.The owner is entitled to damages putting them in the position as if the contract had never been made
C.The owner may recover only the deposit paid, as a penalty
D.The owner may recover punitive damages to deter future breaches
Explanation: The ruling principle for contract damages is expectation loss: to place the innocent party, so far as money can, in the position they would have occupied had the contract been performed (Robinson v Harman; Commonwealth v Amann Aviation). This protects the bargained-for benefit.
5During negotiations, a vendor of a motel innocently but inaccurately represents the takings as far higher than actual, and the purchaser relies on this in entering the contract. The misrepresentation is not a term. What is the purchaser's primary remedy for an innocent (non-fraudulent, non-negligent) misrepresentation at general law?
A.Damages in the tort of deceit
B.Specific performance of the misrepresented terms
C.Rescission of the contract, subject to bars such as affirmation and third-party rights
D.An account of profits against the vendor
Explanation: An innocent misrepresentation that induces a contract renders it voidable, and the principal general-law remedy is rescission, restoring the parties to their pre-contract positions, subject to bars (affirmation, lapse of time, intervening third-party rights, impossibility of restitutio). Damages are not available for purely innocent misrepresentation at common law.
6A retailer with weak English signs a complex finance guarantee with a bank for her son's business, without independent advice, in circumstances where the bank knew of her vulnerability and the unusual nature of the transaction. She seeks to set aside the guarantee. Which equitable doctrine, as applied in Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio, is most directly engaged?
A.Common mistake as to the subject matter
B.Frustration of the guarantee contract
C.Unconscionable dealing, where a stronger party exploits a special disadvantage
D.Promissory estoppel preventing enforcement
Explanation: Amadio establishes that equity will set aside a transaction for unconscionable dealing where one party is under a special disadvantage of which the stronger party knows or ought to know, and unconscientiously exploits it. Vulnerability, lack of advice and the bank's knowledge engage this doctrine.
7Two commercial parties agree on the sale of '500 units' but each subjectively intends a different product line, with neither aware of the divergence and the words equally apt for both. The contract is challenged. Which category of mistake is most likely to render the contract void at common law?
A.Mutual mistake, where the parties are at cross-purposes and no consensus can objectively be found
B.Unilateral mistake known to the other party
C.Common mistake as to a fundamental quality
D.Mistake of law, which is never operative
Explanation: Where parties are genuinely at cross-purposes (mutual mistake) and the objective theory cannot resolve which meaning prevails, no agreement is formed (Raffles v Wichelhaus; Goldsbrough Mort v Quinn). The ambiguity prevents an objective consensus, so the contract may be void.
8A contract provides that, on any late payment of an instalment, the defaulting party must pay a fixed sum of $200,000 'as agreed damages', which is grossly disproportionate to any conceivable loss from late payment. Applying Australian penalty doctrine after Andrews v ANZ and Paciocco v ANZ, the clause is most likely to be:
A.Enforceable as a liquidated damages clause because the parties agreed to it
B.Void for uncertainty because damages are unliquidated
C.Unenforceable as a penalty if it is out of all proportion to the interests it protects
D.Enforceable only if the innocent party actually suffered $200,000 loss
Explanation: A stipulated sum is an unenforceable penalty where it is extravagant and out of all proportion to the legitimate interests it protects (Paciocco v ANZ; Andrews v ANZ). A genuine pre-estimate of loss is enforceable, but $200,000 grossly disproportionate to late-payment loss points to a penalty.
9An employee promises to keep working for an employer in exchange for the employer's promise to pay a bonus already legally owed under the existing contract. The employer later refuses to pay the bonus. What is the principal contractual difficulty with enforcing the bonus promise?
A.Performance of an existing contractual duty owed to the same party is generally not good consideration
B.The promise is too uncertain to enforce
C.The promise lacks an intention to create legal relations
D.The promise is unenforceable for want of writing under the Statute of Frauds
Explanation: Consideration must be something of value moving from the promisee; performing a pre-existing contractual duty owed to the same promisor is generally not fresh consideration (Stilk v Myrick; Wigan v Edwards). Without a practical benefit or variation, the bonus promise may be unsupported.
10A term in a contract is classified as an 'intermediate' (innominate) term. One party commits a breach of that term. How does an Australian court determine whether the innocent party may terminate?
A.Termination is always available for breach of any term
B.Termination is never available unless the term is a condition
C.By asking only whether the breaching party acted in bad faith
D.By asking whether the breach deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit of the contract
Explanation: For intermediate terms, the right to terminate depends on the gravity and consequences of the breach: whether it deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit intended (Hongkong Fir; Koompahtoo v Sanpine). Conditions allow termination for any breach; warranties do not.
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