Simon V Huddersford Bookshop Case Study

A contract is an agreement that legally binds the parties involved. Alternatively, it can be defined as a promise or a set of the same that are enforceable by law. By getting into an agreement, parties acquire obligations and rights which are enforceable by the court of law. The main method through which such agreements may be enforced is by the award of damages although in many cases the court may order the defaulting party to perform a specific action to compensate the aggrieved party. In addition to that, there has to be evident communication between the two parties involved for an agreement to be considered as binding the parties involved. In the case of Simon V Huddersford Bookshop, there is no binding contract as the sellers failed to respond to the offer sent to them by Simon.
The main objective of this paper is to determine whether there is a contract that binds Simon and Huddersford Bookshop. In the determination of the case, there are various legal issues that need to be addressed. These are an offer, acceptance, ITT, and remedies that should be accorded to the aggrieved parties in the case. To begin with, an offer is an explicit proposal that is given one party of the need for a contract which when accepted binds the two parties involved in an agreement and in the …show more content…
In addition to that, the fact the book was finally sold at £600 is an indication that the advert was one of the strategies that the bookshop employed to increase the number of customers who visited the shop. In light of this, there was no offer and hence a contract. It is therefore wise to conclude that the facts in Simon V Huddersford Bookshop are similar to those in Partridge V Crittenden, in that in both cases, there was no offer. The phrase ‘special offer’ is a red herring, designed to throw the student off the