Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts is for anyone who need to understand, negotiate or draft commercial contracts. The book includes:
- A guide to the common legal issues in negotiating and drafting contracts
- An explanation of the structure and content of a commercial contract
- Good and bad practice in drafting (and in using clear, modern English)
- The meaning and use of commonly-used words, phrases and legal jargon
- The formalities for creating and signing contracts
- Guidance on the interpretation of contracts
- Steps to take, and what to check for in a contract to eliminate errors (including lists of what to check for in different situations)
- Practical measures to protect documents from unwanted alteration, to remove metadata and sensitive information and to secure documents
- Drafting and legal issues when contracting with consumers
Fully updated to take account of important court decisions regarding the interpretation of contracts and changes in consumer legislation, the fifth edition also includes:
- new chapters on termination of contracts and dealing with disputes
- new material on administering of existing contracts and modern methods of executing documents (eg DocuSign)
- new and updated examples of contract drafting techniques
- additional definitions of legal terms used in contracts
It is essential reading for commercial lawyers, contract managers, in-house lawyers, lawyers in private practice, LPC course tutors and law and business students.
- ISBN10 1526517248
- ISBN13 9781526517241
- Publish Date 13 October 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Imprint Bloomsbury Professional
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 456
- Language English