LawByLak — Topic 46: Contract Rules (OCR H418, Paper 4)
The framework the other five topics sit inside: parties, burden of proof, the sources of contract law, and the themes OCR examines through.
Honest up front: no question has ever been set on this topic across five sittings, and we say so on the cover rather than pretending otherwise. It is on the specification, it is what every other contract question assumes you already know, and it is where the evaluation vocabulary for the whole block comes from.
What's inside
Three things, in one download:
- The interactive revision module — a single file you open in any browser. Tabs, search, flashcards, self-marking, progress tracking, dark mode. Works offline once downloaded.
- The cheat sheet — the whole topic on a few printable pages. For the night before.
- The revision guide — the full written guide as a PDF, for reading away from a screen or printing in one go.
Inside the module:
- 12 authorities — 8 cases and 4 statutes, each mapped to the theme OCR attaches it to.
- The six themes — freedom of contract, good faith, consumer protection, balancing interests, fault, and inequality of bargaining power — each with the argument, the counter-argument and the authority.
- The upgrade grid: how to turn a described rule into an evaluated one, which is the single move that separates Level 3 from Level 4 on every essay in this paper.
- Practice at four tiers with three-level answer climbs, a scored self-marking exercise, and a matching game.
Why it's different
Every practice item is drafted and labelled as drafted, because there is no real question to work from and we will not invent a paper reference to pretend otherwise. What you get instead is the argument structure the other five modules cash in.
Best bought alongside Formation or Terms, where the themes actually earn marks.
Works on your phone. Dark mode. Prints cleanly.
More A-Level Law revision, and the rest of the contract block, at lawbylak.co.uk