Commercial Contracts

A Practical Guide to Standard Terms

Richard Lawson, Susan Singleton (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

446 Seiten

2011 | 3rd edition
Bloomsbury Professional (Verlag)
978-1-84766-867-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Richard Lawson is a partner at Lawmark and Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons

Inhalt

Section A: Commentary;
A1 Forming and Concluding a Contract; A2 Common and Specific Clauses; A3 Export Contracts - Special Issues; A4 Software Contracts - Special Issues; A5 Consumer Contracts - Special Issues;
Section B: Business-to-Business Contracts;
B1 Terms and Conditions for the Sale of Goods; B2 Terms and Conditions of Purchase; B3 Licence of Computer Software - Buyer/Licensee; B4 Professional Services Agreement - Supplier; B5 Professional Services Agreement - Buyer; B6 Terms and Conditions for Sale of Goods by Export -Supplier; B7 Terms and Conditions for Purchase of Goods and Services by Import -Buyer;
Section C: Business-to-Consumer Contracts;
C1 Consumer Contracts - Distance Selling; C2 Hire Purchase Contracts; C3 Online Terms and Conditions of Sale; C4 Online Terms and Conditions for the Supply of Software.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2011
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 156 x 248 mm
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Handelsrecht
• ISBN-10: 1-84766-867-4 / 1847668674
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84766-867-7 / 9781847668677
• Zustand: Neuware