LAW 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Estoppel, Chinese Temple, Himalaya Clause
27 Oct 2018
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Kira works as the head of trafalgar inc. "s marketing department. Her employment contract spells out her employment responsibilities in great detail, with all of these responsibilities fall into one of two categories: client development and editorial oversight. Kira is paid a generous but not unreasonable wage for the work she does. As part of a valid contract, both parties to the contract must mutually exchange consideration. On these facts, such mutuality exists in the original employment contract: in exchange for the consideration of being paid by trafalgar inc. , kira is providing the consideration of performing those specific tasks listed in her employment agreement. The exchange is an exchange of a salary for the performance of an express set of tasks. In other words, if trafalgar inc. wants kira to perform these new tasks, it would need to offer her fresh consideration. This question deals with the issue of promissory estoppel.
