Quote: *1865* "In contract law, a contract may be oral or written. Just needs the usual offer, acceptance, consideration blah blah blah.
On this occasion it's been nothing more than a handshake, so it would be up to the court to decide what the parties have agreed.
It's quite possible for them to rule in SMc's favour, however i'd be surprised given the nature of the business and how professional sport contracts are done usually and the monies potentially involved.'"
The key difference between This situation and the Paul Cooke situation is that Cooke and Hull had already started acting under the contractual terms.
McDonnall will have been under his original contract upto the end of October.
Verbal agreements are difficult to enforce. Take the example of the NRL player who was left paralysed recently, Alex McKinnon. The NRL were quoted as offering him a job for life. Now I am sure the NRL will not actually want to make McKinnon work in to his 90's., yet in theory by the letter of the quote that's what could happen should McKinnon accept.
A term of phrase can easily be misinterpreted in the eyes of the law.