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  • Pub. Date: 31-Oct-2014
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1780436610
  • ISBN-13: 9781780436616
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  • Format: Multiple-component retail product, 484 pages, height x width: 248x156 mm, weight: 806 g, Contains 1 Paperback / softback and 1 CD-ROM
  • Pub. Date: 31-Oct-2014
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
  • ISBN-10: 1780436610
  • ISBN-13: 9781780436616
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Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms, 4th edition 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; 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.

Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms, 4th edition is 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.

Previous print edition ISBN: 9781847668677

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Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Standard Terms, 4th edition is an invaluable guide to the practical aspects of drafting and interpreting commercial contracts.
Table of statutes
ix
Table of statutory instruments
xiii
Table of cases
xv
Section A Commentary
1(186)
A1 Forming and Concluding a Contract
3(30)
At a glance
3(2)
Whether agreement has been reached
5(8)
The incorporation of contract terms
13(8)
Unusual or onerous terms
21(4)
The effect of signature
25(1)
The 'battle of the forms'
25(3)
The relative importance of the contract terms
28(1)
Intermediate terms
29(1)
Signing a contract
30(1)
Checklist
31(2)
A2 Common and Specific Clauses and Terms
33(94)
At a glance
33(2)
Describing the goods or services
35(3)
Quality and fitness for purpose
38(12)
When not reasonably fit
50(1)
Goods supplied under the contract
51(3)
Where model seen or examined before contract
54(1)
Digital content
54(1)
Sales by sample
55(1)
Effect of slight breaches
55(1)
Passing of risk
56(1)
Passing of property
57(5)
Retention of title
62(6)
Exclusion clauses and unfair terms
68(2)
The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
70(14)
The Consumer Rights Act 2014
84(11)
Liquidated damages clauses
95(6)
Avoiding penalty clauses
101(1)
Prepayments and forfeitures
102(1)
Limitation periods
102(4)
Excluding liability for misrepresentation
106(7)
Frustration
113(4)
Third party rights
117(2)
Intellectual property rights
119(1)
Confidentiality and non-disclosure
120(1)
Service of notices
121(1)
Signature
121(1)
Proper law clauses
122(1)
Competition issues
123(2)
Checklist
125(2)
A3 Export Contracts -- Special Issues
127(38)
At a glance
127(1)
Legislative framework
128(1)
Current strategic export control legislation
128(1)
UN embargoes
129(3)
Getting an export licence
132(31)
Checklist
163(2)
A4 Software Contracts -- Special Issues
165(22)
At a glance
165(1)
Whether software is 'goods'
166(3)
Consumer contracts
169(1)
Intellectual property
169(1)
Instructions for use
170(1)
Documentation
171(1)
Warranties and limitation of liability
172(1)
The legal status of guarantees
173(1)
Purchaser's safeguard against intellectual property infringements
174(1)
Use and licence of software
175(1)
Acceptance tests
176(1)
Restrictions on use
176(1)
Confidentiality
177(1)
Source code escrow
177(1)
Training
178(1)
Patent/copyright indemnity
178(1)
Bespoke software
179(5)
Checklist
184(3)
Section B Business-to-Business Contracts
187(160)
B1 Terms and Conditions for the Sale and Supply of Goods
189(64)
At a glance
189(1)
General
190(45)
Checklist
235(18)
B2 Terms and Conditions of Purchase
253(16)
Checklist
253(14)
Other possible considerations
267(2)
B3 Licence of Computer Software -- Buyer/Licensee
269(22)
At a glance
269(1)
Commentary
269(22)
B4 Professional Services Agreement -- Supplier
291(13)
At a glance
291(1)
Commentary
291(13)
B5 Professional Services Agreement -- Buyer
304(25)
At a glance
304(1)
Commentary
304(25)
B6 Terms and Conditions for Sale of Goods by Export -- Supplier
329(8)
At a glance
329(1)
Commentary
329(8)
B7 Terms and Conditions for Purchase of Goods and Services by Import -- Buyer
337(10)
At a glance
337(1)
Commentary
337(10)
Section C Business-to-Consumer Contracts
347(90)
C1 Consumer Contracts -- Distance and Off-Premises Contracts
349(24)
Preliminary issues of incorporation
349(1)
Precedent -- Specimen Distance Selling and Off-Premises Contract
349(14)
Distance contracts concluded by electronic means -- placing the order
363(1)
Presentation of contract terms
363(1)
Issues as to space
364(1)
The Model Cancellation Form
364(1)
On-Premises Contracts
365(1)
Contracts outside the Regulations
366(1)
Confirmation of contracts
366(1)
Internet-related aspects
367(6)
C2 Hire Purchase Contracts
373(40)
Definition
373(1)
Hire purchase V conditional sale
373(1)
Regulated hire purchase agreements
374(24)
When within the 2010 Regulations
398(1)
Hire Purchase Agreement regulated by the Consumer Credit Act 1974
398(10)
Unregulated hire purchase agreements
408(3)
Conditional sale agreements
411(2)
C3 Online Terms and Conditions of Sale
413(12)
At a glance
413(1)
Excepted contracts
413(1)
Distance selling
414(8)
Special provisions as to the supply of services
422(1)
Checklist
423(2)
C4 Online Terms and Conditions for the Supply of Software
425(12)
At a glance
425(1)
Issues
426(1)
Contract terms required by the Regulations
426(4)
Rights and remedies under the Consumer Rights Act 2014
430(5)
Checklist
435(2)
Index 437
Dr Richard Lawson, a former law lecturer, is now a self-employed adviser to trade and industry and has written books on consumer credit, unfair terms, advertising law, sales promotion law and on sale and hire purchase.

Susan Singleton runs her own London firm, Singletons which specialises in competition law, intellectual property law, IT/ecommerce and general commercial law. She is the author of 30 books on different aspects of commercial law.