Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms - Softcover

Lawson, Richard; Singleton, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847668674 ISBN 13: 9781847668677

Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional, 2011

Synopsis

Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms is an invaluable guide to the practical aspects of drafting and interpreting commercial contracts. It provides useful background and detailed advice on the law surrounding a wide range of commercial agreements including: key common clauses; when to use standard terms; procedures and good practice; termination of contracts; remedies for breach; and the specific issues relating to export, software and consumer contracts. It also contains valuable precedents, including expert guidance on business-to-business and business-to-consumer agreements, providing users with an excellent tool for drafting commercial contracts.

Includes important new case law on:
- how to incorporate terms into a contract
- how an exclusion clause must be drafted to have full effect
- the terms as to quality implied into contracts by the Sale of Goods Act 1979
- what constitute reasonable and fair terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 and the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.

There is also an account of the new rights to cancel contracts introduced by the Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home or Place of Work etc. Regulations 2008

Includes detailed coverage of the changes made in the area of hire purchase and conditional sale agreements by the Consumer Credit Act 2006 and the important changes to be introduced in this area under EU law from 1 February 2011.

About this title

About the Authors

Richard is a partner at Lawmark.
He has an LLB and LLM from Leeds University and obtained his PhD at the Australian National University, Canberra. He then taught law at the Universities of Auckland and Southampton.
As well as writing Commercial Contracts, Richard has written books on Sales Promotion Law; Advertising Law (in both the UK and New Zealand); Advertising and Labelling Law in the EEC; Consumer Credit; Unfair Contract Terms. He is also responsible for the volumes on Consumer Credit; Consumer Protection; and Financial Services in the Atkins Court Form series.

Susan Singleton is a solicitor and founder of Singletons (www.singlelaw.com). She advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for five years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. She has advised on joint ventures and collaboration agreements both now and before that at Slaughter and May and Bristows. Susan is the author/editor of several Bloomsbury Professional titles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847668674
• ISBN 13: 9781847668677
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 446