‐ You are a trainee solicitor in the Commercial Litigation team at NAME_1 & Co LLP.
‐ One of the clients you will be acting for is Blue Cow Ltd, an English company who produce dairy products and sell them to
farm shops and supermarkets around the country. On 18 March, your supervisor asks you to join a call with the sales
director of Blue Cow, NAME_2, who has informed her of a dispute that has arisen in connection with a contract for the
purchase of milk from NAME_3 Farming Ltd (“NAME_3”). NAME_3 is a relatively small company based in Devon, which sells their
milk to Blue Cow for the production of their dairy products.
‐ During the call, the sales director informs you both that they had recently attended their most important event of the year,
the London Food Festival, a day where they expect to earn a fifth of their yearly profits in a day. However, a fortnight before
the festival when the NAME_3 delivery arrived, all the milk arrived spoilt from the warm weather and Blue Cow were unable
to use any of it. Frustrated, the sales director had called NAME_3 and asked for a new consignment of milk to be delivered as
soon as possible, and in any event by the end of the week. NAME_3 promised over the phone that they would send a new
consignment of milk to Blue Cow the next day, but when sending out the milk, they had managed to put the wrong address
on the delivery and send it to a different dairy-product producer.
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‐ Because of these issues, Blue Cow had to approach another supplier who could only provide a small amount of milk before
the event at double the price. Therefore, Blue Cow were not able to produce as many products for the Festival and they
just broke-even. NAME_2 is very upset on the call and wants to know what her options are in light of this dispute.
‐ Your supervising Partner is out of the office for the next two days but has requested that you send some initial information
to the client in their absence as the issue. The partner has requested that you provide the client with a brief note explaining
the basic principles of law in this area, the timeline of next steps NAME_1 & Co will take if things do progress and that you
draft a possible first, letter before claim to NAME_3.
‐ You have not yet seen a copy of the contract but you have been informed by NAME_2 that it was a standard sale of goods
and services contract and that implied terms were not excluded. Your response should contain 600+ words.
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