Understanding Contracts - An Overview for Non-Lawyers BPP University

Overview

Through examples and practical exercises, you’ll learn how to identify risks, understand terminology, analyse key provisions and engage more confidently with contractual documents. Ideal for commercial teams looking to strengthen their contractual awareness and support business operations more effectively.

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Understanding Contracts - An Overview for Non-Lawyers course at BPP University you will be able to:

• Understand the key issues concerning contract formation, including offer, acceptance and the ‘battle of the forms’, and apply these concepts to factual scenarios
• Recognise and understand key terminology commonly used in contracts
• Comprehend and analyse the key provisions in business‑to‑business contracts from both the supplier and buyer perspectives
• Describe the essential concepts relating to price and payment
• Distinguish between best endeavours, all reasonable endeavours and reasonable endeavours
• Describe the implied terms of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and explain their significance
• Analyse the issues surrounding exclusion clauses
• Understand the purpose and significance of warranties and indemnities
• Explain how contracts may be terminated and why consequences of termination must be clearly addressed
• Review and revise the content of a business‑to‑business contract with greater confidence