Offer

Question 1

Gibson v Man City council

Answer 1

‘The corporation MAY be prepared to sell you the house.’

G made an offer to council by responding.

Question 2

Storer V Man City council

Answer 2

Entitled ‘Agreement for council’

Question 3

Pharmaceutical society of GB v Boots cash chemist

Answer 3

Pharmacy and Poisons Act 1933 said a pharmacist needs to supervise when a ‘sale is effected’

Argued display of goods was an offer and picking it up was acceptance.

Boots argued the sale was effected at the till

Held that picking up goods by customer was an offer

Question 4

Fisher v Bell

Answer 4

Goods displayed in a shop window is an invitation to treat

Question 5

Advertisements

Answer 5

Courts view it as making public aware of what’s available

Question 6

Partridge v Crittenden

Answer 6

Charged under Protection of Birds Act 1954

Held that the ad was an invitation to treat not an offer

Did not have the capacity to provide everyone with a bird we’re everyone to accept if it was an ‘offer’

Question 7

Carlill v Carbolic Smokevall Co

Answer 7

Company argued it was an ITT

Rejected bc;

1) not a offer to all the world but only those who acted upon the terms
2) satisfying condition of use was acceptance
3) company’s claim of £1000 at alliance bank showed intention to be legally bound

Question 8

Blue v Ashley

Answer 8

Evening of drinking is an unlikely setting in which to negotiate contractual bonus’s

Purpose of the meet was different

Jokey tone of conversation

Would make no commercial sense to make as offer like so