PVL3702 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2026 (270727)

Law of Contract - PVL3702 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2026 (Unique Number: 270727) - Due 31 March 2026; 100 % TRUSTED workings, Expert Solved, Explanations and Solutions. For assistance call or W.h.a.t.s.a.p.p us on ...(.+.2.5.4.7.7.9.5.4.0.1.3.2)........... PVL3702 ASSIGNMENT 01 QUESTION: 2026 (SEMESTER 1) UNIQUE NUMBER: 270727 Important Information Relating to the PVL3702 Assignments You must note that you will be required to submit two (2) assignments for the PVL3702 module. Each assignment will carry a 50% weighting towards your year mark. It is very important for you to note that both your assignment marks will be used to give you your year mark, and you must achieve a minimum year mark of 40% to obtain examination admission for the PVL3702 module. It is therefore in your best interests that you submit both assignments timeously. Instructions and Assignment Question for Assignment 01 IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ONLY HAVE ONE ATTEMPT TO SUBMIT ASSIGNMENT 1. THE ONUS IS ON YOU TO SUBMIT THE CORRECT ASSIGNMENT, AND TO SUBMIT AN ASSIGNMENT THAT IS COMPLETE AS YOU ONLY HAVE ONE ATTEMPT TO SUBMIT PVL3702 ASSIGNMENT 1. Serious adverse consequences can apply if a lawyer in practice serves the wrong document to the opposing party in the case, or even if an incomplete/incorrect document or pleading is served or filed in the court file. Therefore, ensure that you submit the CORRECT PVL3702 Assignment 1 as you have ONLY ONE attempt to do so. • Your submission of Assignment 01 must be done before 15H00 on 31 March 2026. The Unique Number for Assignment 01 is 270727. • This assignment must be submitted by all students who are registered for the PVL3702 module in the first semester of 2026. • Your answer must not exceed one typed page or two written pages and you must comply with the requirements for assignments. Typed assignments must be in font type Arial and font size 12. Whether an assignment is written or typed, it must be submitted in PDF, as no other format will be accepted. • For this assignment, you must cover the whole of Learning Unit 1 (which comprises of 5 Lessons); in Learning Unit 2, cover Lesson 1,2,3 and 4 only; for Learning Unit 4, cover Lesson 2 only. For this assignment you do not need to cover Learning Units 3 and 5. • This assignment question is worth 10 marks (see the marking rubric). • See below is the checklist and criteria for the marking rubric. Checklist Assessment criteria Yes No Did you read the cases you were instructed to read and identify the relevant sections in your prescribed textbook? Did you identify the legal problem involved? Did you identify and use the most appropriate legal sources and authorities to solve the problem? Did you analyse these sources and critically evaluate them in terms of the identified problem? Did you appropriately use the authorities to substantiate your arguments and to support your solution to the identified problem? Did you use language consistent with the conventions in the discipline of law? Did you understand the terms, rules, concepts, principles and theories related to the question? Was the advice you gave on an appropriate course of action in your answer responsible? In other words, did your setting out of the law and application thereof to the facts support the advice you gave? Did you act responsibly and ethically as a researcher and scholar, e.g. refer appropriately, acknowledge sources and avoid plagiarism? Did you keep to the length restriction? Marking rubric Evaluation criteria Not Achieved Partially achieved Achieved 1. Identifying the problem. 0 0.5 1 2. Discussing the relevant law applicable to the problem by referring to authorities, acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism. 0 0.5 - 3.5 4 3. Applying the law to the facts of the problem. 0 1 - 2.5 3 4. Giving appropriate advice. 0 0.5 1 5. Complying with the length restriction 0 0 1 • It is very important that you type a carefully formulated, grammatically correct answer. You must use your own words when you answer the assignment question. If you merely copy sections from the Learning Units or the textbook, this will constitute plagiarism. The use of AI technology to answer this assignment question is strictly prohibited. • THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED ON myUnisa IN PDF FORMAT (and must NOT be in “read-only” format and it must not be password protected). IF YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS SUBMITTED (ON myUnisa) IN ANY OTHER FORMAT, IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. EMAILED SUBMISSIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. • For the first assignment, you are required to read two cases (which are referred to in the next paragraph). Together with the reading of these cases, you must identify and study all the relevant pages in the prescribed textbook to fully answer the assignment question. There could be relevant content in the textbook that is not prescribed for study purposes but may still be relevant for this assignment question. Note that finding and reading the cases is part of showing that you are able to conduct basic research, before you proceed to answer the question. When you read a case as part of your researching exercise, you must identify whether a case is relevant to the facts in the problem-type question, and if so, to what extent. As part of this exercise, you must also consider if a case is not relevant, and if the facts therein are distinguishable to the facts in the question that you are dealing with. There may also be aspects in a case that are relevant for this assignment and aspects that are not. • The cases that you must read for the first assignment are Van Reenen Steel (Pty) Ltd v Smith NO 2002 (4) SA 264 (SCA) and City of Cape Town (CMC Administration) v Bourbon-Leftley NO 2006 (3) SA 488 (SCA). You can find these judgments in conventional law libraries, online at the website of the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) (), or as an e-resource on the Unisa Library site. On the Unisa Library site click on “Find e-resources”. Then click on “Subjects” and after that, scroll down the page and click on “Law”. Scroll down to and click on “Jutastat e-Publications (Juta Law Online)” or “LexisNexis (South African Law)”, to find the South African cases that you are looking for. Use any method that works for you to find these cases. • Importantly, once you find and read the cases mentioned in the previous paragraph, use these cases to also identify the relevant section(s) in the prescribed textbook to fully answer the assignment question. Study the relevant section(s) of the textbook. Use these cases that you read, and the relevant sections of the prescribed textbook to fully answer the assignment question set out below. ASSIGNMENT 01 QUESTION: Jabu owns a jewelry store. He recently bought what he believed to be a genuine diamond ring for R50 000 from one of his suppliers. Raymond visits the store and offers Jabu R80 000 for the same ring, and Jabu accepts the offer. The contract was concluded on the basis that the sale item is a genuine diamond ring. Subsequently, when Raymond visits his friend Themba, who specializes in diamond trading, Themba informs him that the ring is a fake and it is not a genuine diamond ring. It turns out that the ring was made with inferior materials which were artificial, and even though the end product appears to look like a diamond ring, it is not. Discuss fully the type of mistake that is relevant to this question and advise Raymond if the contract he concluded with Jabu is valid or void. Refer to case law in your answer. Do not discuss latent defects and breach of contract. And do not apply the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 to this question. Note the following: This assignment question carries 10 marks, so only focus specifically on the legal issues which are relevant for this question, because your answer must not exceed one typed page or two written pages. Regards, MS T MONYELA ADV R ISMAIL © UNISA 2026