ABSTRACT

Both questions in this chapter raise similar issues, although the first does so in essay form, and the second by way of a problem. The issues that are likely to come up in any question relating to this area are:

v the ways in which money can be recovered, where it has been paid in pursuance of an ineffective contract; and

v the extent to which compensation can be recovered for work that has been done outside the framework of a contract (the quantum meruit claim).