1.Briefly please describe the nature of your business (its size, number of employees,

turnover).

2. Have you ever had any legal training? What do you know about contract law and its relevance to your business?

3. Does your business involve contracts of any sort? Please describe.

4. Do you have any regular arrangements under which you promise to supply another business and they promise to accept supply and pay for it? Please describe.

5. Has a business referred to in question 4 reneged on such a promise? What happened? What might happen?

6. When you set up business agreements, do you thing about what might happen if they are violated?

7.Do you give credit at all? What happens if people don’t pay up?

8.Have you ever taken or threatened to take legal action in a business context? In what circumstances have you or would you?

9.Do you have any regular arrangements under which you promise to accept supply and to pay for it?

10. Have you ever reneged on such a promise? What happened? What might happen?

11. When you set up agreements do you consider what might happen if things go wrong in any way?

12. Have you ever been sued or threatened with being sued in a business context? How did you or would you react?

13. Given that the purpose of these questions is to find out about the place of contract law in your business; is there anything else you might tell me?