This SQE1 revision guide covers the requirements of the SRA SQE1 2026 specification for contract law, which will be examined within the FLK1 assessments in January and July 2027. Designed specifically to help you prepare for the SQE1 assessment, it provides a clear, concise and highly focused overview of the subject and shows you how to work with the principles and rules of contract law at the level required by the SQE.

The book is clearly structured around the SRA specification and focuses only on the content you need to revise for the SQE1 assessment. It provides plenty of opportunities to test your functioning legal knowledge as defined in the SQE1 syllabus. Each chapter includes five practice questions, demonstrating how to apply the relevant legal principles to SQE-style single best answer multiple-choice questions.

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SQE Contract Law is available as a print book, ebook and audiobook, and is suitable whether you are following an SQE preparation course, a self-study route, or preparing to retake the SQE1 assessment.

"Revise SQE Contract Law 2027" was written by Michael Pugh.

Michael Pugh is a senior lecturer teaching Contract Law, Business Law and International Commercial Arbitration at St Mary’s University. He was previously a partner at Hogan Lovells. He believes strongly that at the foundation of every transaction is a contract and that if you equip yourself with the fundamentals of contract law, you equip yourself with the building blocks to provide sound advice. His book will prepare students practically and thoroughly for the SQE assessment in this fascinating area of law.  

Offer & Acceptance

Consideration

The intention to create legal relations, certainty and capacity

Privity of contract and rights of third parties

Contents of a contract I: Sources and Interpretation

Contents of a contract 2: Exemption clauses and unfair terms

Misrepresentation

Mistake, duress, undue influence and illegality

The discharge of contracts

Remedies