Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms

5th Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5265-0833-1
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Mixed Media Product Paperback with Online Resource, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 917 g

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; 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.

Key changes for the new 5th edition include coverage and analysis of:

- important case law as to when terms are unfair or unreasonable, notably the first Supreme Court ruling on the fairness test in ParkingEye Ltd v Beavis

- Changes in the regulation of consumer credit since regulation passed to the Financial Conduct Authority

- Fresh court guidance as to when terms have been incorporated into a contract

- Rulings on the rules as to the enforceable of onerous terms

- The Consumer Rights Act 2015

- The effect of the Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR

- Brexit and the transitional period

- The new 2019 EU Regulation on privacy

- Replacement of the PECR regulations by the new EU Directive on trade secrets and UK implementation

An essential resource for commercial contract drafters helping them to prepare water tight legal agreements and ensure that they are completely clear on what a business must do to stay on the right side of the law.

Includes online access to downloadable precedents

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheikh, Saleem

Singleton, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section A: Commentary
A1: Forming and Concluding a Contracts
A2: Common and Specific Clauses
A3: Export Contracts - Special Issues
A4: Software 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/Licence
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 by Services by Import - Buyer

Section C: Business-to-Consumer Contracts
C1: Consumer Contracts - Distance Selling
C2: Hire Purchase Contracts
C3: Outline Terms and Conditions of Sale
C4: Online Terms and Conditions for the Supply of Software

Über Autor(innen)

Sheikh, Saleem
Saleem Sheikh has written extensively on company commercial matters for law journals, including practitioners' books on company law, business law transactions, corporate governance and corporate social responsibilities. He is also the editor of a leading UK publication on international company and commercial law.

Singleton, Susan
Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London commercial firm of solicitors, Singletons (www.singlelaw.com) which advises a large range of UK and international clients on business law with particular emphasis on commercial, IT/IP, corporate, data protection, competition law and contracts including some litigation. Author of 33 law books and contributor to 52 more, she writes regularly on legal matters for a variety of publications. She has given about 1700 legal courses/lectures since 1990 in 16 countries i.e. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, Dubai, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Nigeria, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Turkey. She publishes nine subscription legal newsletters acquired from Informa including - IT Law Today, Corporate Briefing, Pensions Today and Finance and Credit Law. She practised first at London law firms Slaughter and May and Bristows before founding her own firm in 1994. She sat on the Direct Marketing Authority for 5 years and was Vice Chairman of the Competition Law Association. In 2020 she was one of the Society of Computers and Law Female Tech Law Heroes. A mother of five (her daughters both qualified as solicitors in 2011/12, her oldest son avoided the law and her twin sons are due to qualify as solicitors in 2024) in her spare time she plays the piano, sings and tends her garden. She has three grandchildren. She is past Chairman of Pinner Hill Residents Association and until recently enjoyed her own island in Panama. She can be followed on twitter at singlelaw.

Dr Saleem Sheikh is a solicitor and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of East London. Susan Singleton is a solicitor with her own London firm, Singletons.