LawByLak — Topic 51: Remedies (OCR H418, Paper 4)

Damages, the limiting rules, and the equitable remedies. The best-examined topic in the contract block.

Examined three times in five sittings, always Question 7, always a scenario — June 2022, June 2024 and June 2025. OCR names 26 cases and has examined 16 of them, a 62% hit rate against roughly 40% elsewhere. Every strand has come up.

What's inside

Three things, in one download:

1. 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.
2. The cheat sheet — the whole topic on a few printable pages. For the night before.
3. The revision guide — the full written guide as a PDF, for reading away from a screen or printing in one go.

Inside the module:

• 40 authorities — 30 cases and 10 Consumer Rights Act provisions.
• 60 flashcards.
• All three real past questions as full worked scenarios, each with Level 2, Level 3 and Level 4 answers, plus three drafted essays.
• Eight flowcharts, three decision trees, the consumer goods and services staircases, and a penalty-rule before-and-after showing what Cavendish and ParkingEye actually changed.
• Exam Skills built on the four failure modes OCR named in its own 2022 report — including the one where candidates claim rescission when they mean damages.

Why it's different

The spine of this topic is a thing most students get wrong: in both damages questions, OCR's own model conclusion is that the main claim recovers nothing. Mitigation is the mechanism. A module that teaches you to award damages on every set of facts is teaching you to lose marks, and this one says so on the first screen.

No essay can be set here — the specification confines Paper 4 evaluation to formation, terms and reform — so nothing in this module is padding for a question that will never come.

Works on your phone. Dark mode. Prints cleanly.

More A-Level Law revision, and the rest of the contract block, at lawbylak.co.uk