Free CIPS L5M3 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers

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Mark needs professional indemnity insurance. Types of insurance is a known exam topic and the study guide does not cover this particularly well. Types of insurance is mentioned on p.25 but Pro-fessional Indemnity Insurance isn't really explained and this does come up in the exam. Professional Indemnity Insurance is needed when your job is to give advice to people (like as a Consultant). It's used for if the advice you give turns out to be bad. For example, if Mark told the building manager he should get ABC Fire Alarm installed, and actually this Fire Alarm doesn't meet the necessary Health and Safety standards, he could get sued by the building manager. He could then claim on his Professional Indemnity Insurance.

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The true statements are: liquidated damages is a genuine estimate of loss (it doesn't need to be a 100% accurate figure, so long as it's your best estimate) and costs incurred above £500k will be covered by Parky Parks Ltd. That's one of the disadvantages of stating liquidated damages in a contract for a buyer- if damages total more than this, you have to foot the bill for the rest. See p.30 for more info

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"No- there has been a breach in warranty" is the correct answer. The key to answering this question lies in the fact that the specification in this example is a warranty rather than a condition of the contract. P.45 of the study guide explains that the Sale of Goods Act has implications on whether or not a specification is a condition, warranty or innominate term and it's all about whether the product is in 'good condition' and can be used for its intended purpose. In this example the eggs were used for their intended purpose and were in good condition (or Sarah wouldn't have put them in the cakes). Therefore in this example, the eggs needing to be free-range is a warranty of the contract not a condition. Therefore options A and B are both wrong. Answer C is also wrong because the question mentioned that the specification was included in the contract. If you want to know more about the implication of the Sale of Goods act on specifications see p.45.

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No - There is no consideration. For a document to be considered a contract there must be consideration. This means something of value must be exchanged. In this example John gives Larry something but Larry doesn't give John anything. Therefore there is no consideration and this is not a contract. See p.12

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This is adjudication. Adjudication is the only option which has a specified timeframe.

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Offers include bids on an auction and a price proposal that is valid for 14 days. The other three options are Invitations to Treat. See p.3 for the full list of what constitutes an Invitation to Treat. The tricky thing here is that an auction is an invitation to treat but a bid on an auction is an offer. An auction is an ITT because you're encouraging people to make an offer to you. A bid on the auction is the offer (you offer to buy something at a price you propose).

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This is a condition. Again the food being organic would be fundamental to the contract as the health of the llamas depend on it.

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The answer is avoid because they have postponed a meeting.

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An Innominate Term is the correct answer. At the time the contract was written, we didn't know how important the delivery time was - therefore it wasn't a condition or a warranty- it was an innominate term. An innominate term is a term that is difficult to classify at the time of drafting a contract. A time is of the essence clause would be a good thing to include in this contract now that we know how important the delivery times are. For more information on Conditions, Warranties and Innominate Terms see p. 43

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Frustrated is when "a situation has occurred which means that the contract can no longer be per-formed". The situation is one which is outside of the control of either party and its no one's fault that this has happened. A common example of this is when contracts were unable to be performed due to Covid-19 and the national lockdown. The government mandated everyone 'stay at home' and therefore some business contracts were unable to be fulfilled, and were therefore 'frustrated' (for example the delivery of popcorn to cinemas- the cinemas were told by the government to close so the popcorn couldn't be delivered. This wasn't anyone's fault). See p. 47 for more information on Contract Frustration