Stephen R Covey’s 7 Habits are principles to help you become highly effective. There are astonishing parallels with my specialist area of law – contracts. In brief, the first six of the 7 habits can be summarised as ‘make and keep a promise’ and ‘involve others and work out a
As part of my on-going research into contract writing, I reading Peter Hibberd’s (former Chairman of The Joint Contracts Tribunal) Arbrix paper How Difficult is it to Write a Standard Form Contract? He says: “How difficult is it to write a standard form contract – it depends on what one
Too often, when negotiating contracts or revising T&C for a client, no-one really knows why a clause is there or what it is meant to do (like the architect with his net contribution clause), or what values their contract is trying to portray. I rarely come across these sort of
In researching terms and conditions, I came across a Report from the Office of Fair Trading (2011) on Consumer Contracts. The Report recommends that consumer contracts are written to be open, welcoming and fair. The same applies to B2B contracts. Be open The Report defines open contracts as ones where:
In 2013, you couldn’t fail to be aware of the debate going on in the media as a result of the announcement from Carillion that it was going to extend its payment terms for subcontractors to 120 days. Buy why does it matter so much? Cashflow is king As far
This morning I ended up in a lively discussion over breakfast about who ‘owned’ Pooka, the cat in the photo. Our discussion was frivolous. But what about plant, materials, equipment or goods on a construction site? Then the debate really does matter. Who owns construction materials? There are two types