ICLR
by Xueting Guo
1. Most social arrangements are too insubstantial and don’t give rise to legal rights and obligations.
2. marital/ de facto relationship has broken down are more likely to be enforceable
3. two presumptions
3.1. social and domestic
3.1.1. between wife and husband
3.1.1.1. normal
3.1.2. Other family or social agreements
3.1.2.1. One of the parties change their position in reliance on the agreements
3.1.2.2. clarity of the terms
3.1.2.3. Agreements to participate in a competition or lottery are enforceable
3.2. commercial agreements
3.2.1. Statements which are appropriately promissory
3.2.2. Express exclusion of intention
3.2.3. Letters of comfort
3.3. Government policy proposals
3.3.1. 1. Policy commitments: political consequences; not legal ones
3.3.2. 2. Normal commercial agreements: bound by the normal law of contract