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Intention to create legal relations

Peter Blood explains the important contract law topic of intention to create legal relations and helps you to answer questions on it

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This Examination Focus is relevant for AQA AS Unit 2: Introduction to Contract and A2 Unit 3: Contract Law, OCR A2 Unit G155: Law of Contract and WJEC A2 Unit 3: Contract and Consumer Law.

The courts will not treat an agreement as a valid contract if the parties did not intend to be legally bound by it. Putting this another way, one of the essential requirements for the formation of a contract is an intention to create legal relations.

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