Why enforcement is a slippery slope
13 September 2012
Contracts are promises to receive something - rather like skiing in Scotland. But buyers shouldn't rely on the courts to enforce them, as Dick Jennings explains in the final part of our series
We all learnt, more or less on our mother's knee, that contracts consist of legally enforceable promises. Strictly speaking, that proposition is true, just as it's true that one can ski in Scotland. However it's a proposition that needs careful qualification if it is not to mislead. Otherwise it takes people on to a long slippery slope with little prospect of gratification...