What is the legal status of a verbal contract in Scotland?

THE allmediascotland.com Media Clinic is seeking answers to the question: What is the legal status of a verbal contract in Scotland?

It is the latest question in our Media Clinic series, one of the several features being run daily on the site.

The answers need to be submitted only in the spirit of camaraderie, the Scots media community seeking to help each other out.

Feel free to send your proposed answer here, along with your name and what you do.

We’ll be publishing answers on Wednesday.