Contract Law Tutorial
Tutorial 5
1. Naeve Soh, a diploma holder enters into an employment contract with a company as an accounting assistant. The working hours are 8am to 9pm daily except for Sundays and Public Holidays. The pay is $2100 per month. The market rate for a similar job is $3700 and employees in similar jobs in other companies work generally only from 8 am to 6 pm. After working for two months Naeve Soh feels all this is very unfair and wants to challenge it.
(a) Assuming there is no statute prohibiting this (which is indeed the case), can she challenge it?
(b) Can she say that it is an implied term that a reasonable pay should be paid?
2. Sure Byte Ltd produces custom-made software for Z Ltd which is a large public company. After the software is delivered and installed, Z Ltd informs Sure Byte Pte Ltd that it should not only provide initial training but should also have a helpdesk based in Z Ltd, given the complexity of the software and the importance of the software to Z Ltd. Sure Byte Ltd states that is has given a manual and provided initial training to Z Ltd’s staff and that should suffice and that should Z Ltd want a helpdesk stationed there, they should pay separately for it. Can Z Ltd sue Sure Byte Pte Ltd for breach of contract in not running a helpdesk at its premises? From a business/legal perspective what could have been done to make the position more clear? In this regard, if Z Ltd had not informed their lawyers about this need, would the lawyers have definitely known about it? Thus what should Z Ltd have done? 3. Safe Mode Pte Ltd enters into a contract with Dilit Pte Ltd under which the latter is to supply 100 computers at Safe Mode Pte Ltd. The delivery date is specified as the 1st of August. Dilit Pte Ltd comes to deliver the computers two days after that date. Can Safe Mode Pte Ltd reject the computers? From a business/legal perspective, could Safe Mode Pte Ltd have done anything to make the position more clear?
4. Pee Tee drives up to a
1. Naeve Soh, a diploma holder enters into an employment contract with a company as an accounting assistant. The working hours are 8am to 9pm daily except for Sundays and Public Holidays. The pay is $2100 per month. The market rate for a similar job is $3700 and employees in similar jobs in other companies work generally only from 8 am to 6 pm. After working for two months Naeve Soh feels all this is very unfair and wants to challenge it.
(a) Assuming there is no statute prohibiting this (which is indeed the case), can she challenge it?
(b) Can she say that it is an implied term that a reasonable pay should be paid?
2. Sure Byte Ltd produces custom-made software for Z Ltd which is a large public company. After the software is delivered and installed, Z Ltd informs Sure Byte Pte Ltd that it should not only provide initial training but should also have a helpdesk based in Z Ltd, given the complexity of the software and the importance of the software to Z Ltd. Sure Byte Ltd states that is has given a manual and provided initial training to Z Ltd’s staff and that should suffice and that should Z Ltd want a helpdesk stationed there, they should pay separately for it. Can Z Ltd sue Sure Byte Pte Ltd for breach of contract in not running a helpdesk at its premises? From a business/legal perspective what could have been done to make the position more clear? In this regard, if Z Ltd had not informed their lawyers about this need, would the lawyers have definitely known about it? Thus what should Z Ltd have done? 3. Safe Mode Pte Ltd enters into a contract with Dilit Pte Ltd under which the latter is to supply 100 computers at Safe Mode Pte Ltd. The delivery date is specified as the 1st of August. Dilit Pte Ltd comes to deliver the computers two days after that date. Can Safe Mode Pte Ltd reject the computers? From a business/legal perspective, could Safe Mode Pte Ltd have done anything to make the position more clear?
4. Pee Tee drives up to a