Did you or someone in your team ask another company for a copy of their terms so you could copy it/ be inspired by it/ steal ideas with pride? I know quite a few companies whose terms were ‘borrowed’ from a previous business, supplier, competitor, or employer. Bad for business
How are you at treading the high-wire? Whilst it may not seem relevant, I’m asking because high-wire acrobatics is nearly as hard as treading the fine line between suspending works and abandoning the project. Because of this, my 500-word contracts do not include a right to suspend carrying out works
The purpose of a contract is to give you both the right and the duty to provide the entire scope envisaged in your agreement ie all the agreed goods, works and/or services. But what if you want to split up before then? As my book on Small Works says As all construction projects
I first came across lame clauses in 1995 when I read the back of a bungee jump ‘certificate’ and realised participants had effectively signed their lives away! More recently, my teenage sons signed up for an unexpected engineering task when they agreed to the safety rules for the mountain carts
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