Legal design in legal documents – such as contracts – is central critical to proactive and preventative law. I am learning more about the process in the Legal Creatives Academy, an on-line legal design school run by Tessa Manuello. Visuals covers a wide spectrum of items: images, icons, photographs, illustrations,
Legal Frustration There is a English legal doctrine called frustration. It acts to bring a contract prospectively to an end because of the effect of a supervening event ie it ends the contract early. It requires the law to recognise that: without default of either party a contractual duty is
As it says on my website (it used to called my manifesto) “We believe that what you need and want from your contracts is not what you get. We believe: Your processes and content should build strong relationships based on trust You should only offer/sign contracts that your whole team
I have gone back to school – in December 2018 I joined the Legal Creatives Academy, an on-line legal design school run by Tessa Manuello. Her multi-faceted approach to legal creativity is not based on innovation for the sake of it. It is not designed primarily to save the time
A few years ago, I was speaking to an audience at an RICS event and someone asked how he should proceed to write a contract if he didn’t trust ‘them’ (also known as ‘the other side’). I was momentarily stunned into silence – a rare and unusual occurrence for me!
There are a number of ways of responding to possible risks events: one option is to exclude your responsibility (or liability) for specific types of claims or specific categories of losses. These terms which give effect to that option are ‘exclusion’ clauses (also known as exemption clauses). The Court of
Most UK construction projects are carried out on standard form contracts which set out specific events which can entitle one or other of the contracting parties to a range of remedies: an adjustment or extension to the planned completion date more money either for carrying out additional works or for
A contract is a legally binding agreement that creates mutual rights and obligations on the contracting parties. A contract not only obliges the contractor to provide specific works or services but also gives the contractor a right to finish those works or services. There are two mechanisms by which contracts
If the other contracting party is in breach, you can can bring a claim for damages to put you in the position you would have been in had the other performed its duties under the contract correctly. Under English law, damages (or compensation) can only be recovered if they are
The Construction Acts 1996 and 2009 introduced a process for payment for construction contracts, based on payment by instalments. However, the Acts also introduced some terms which can confuse you, as all is not what it appears: the due date: this is not the date on which the (sub)contractor can