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No Contract is an Island
ContractGeneral
Contract liability and liability under a contract can be seen as two separate concepts. The former covers liabilities arising under contract law; the latter covers all the actual and potential...Read more
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Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
An Introduction to Alliance Contracting
ContractConsultant
At its simplest, an alliance contract (known in British Columbia (BC) as the project alliance agreement or PAA) is a contract between a project Owner (the Owner Participant or the...Read more
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Elizabeth Mayer
Partner, DLA Piper, Canada
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Karen Mill
Assistant Vice President, Legal, Canada
The Roads to Freedom of Contract
ContractConstruction
John Paul Sartre’s philosophical novels that make up the trilogy of “the Roads to Freedom”, first screened by the BBC in the 1970’s, were given a complete re-run recently, all...Read more
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Anthony Philpott
Barrister, 10 King's Bench Walk, Temple, UK
Service Descriptions and Service Levels in the Digital World
ContractIT
As lawyers negotiating a contract we have a duty to our clients to protect their legal, commercial and business interests and we do so with great enthusiasm and skill for...Read more
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Clive Davies
Legal Business Consultant, Clive Davies Consulting, UK
Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT [2021] UKSC 29 An Untested Point?
ContractConsultant
The recent Supreme Court decision in Triple Point Technology, Inc v PTT [2021] UKSC 29, delves into a range of issues that should interest commercial contract lawyers. However, I’d like...Read more
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Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
World Pandemic - Dichotomy of Force Majeure
ContractInsurance
Singularity is an interesting concept of theoretical physics. Colloquially explained, a singularity is a location in space-time where all known laws of physics suffer complete breakdown. Without the cushion of...Read more
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Lokanath Kar
Chief - Legal and Compliance, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited, India
Drafting Commercial Contracts Some Practical Ideas
ContractGeneral
Over 35 years of working with legal documents I have seen more horrors than is healthy: services agreements with goods warranties wallowing in the undergrowth; clauses that ran for hundreds...Read more
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Christopher Parr
Director, The Legal Director, UK
Considering the Rationale of Incorporating Force Majeure Clauses in Commercial Contracts Between the Parties to a Commercial Contract
ContractGeneral
Force Majeure clauses are often incorporated by practising lawyers (other than Counsels) as a matter of practice in drafting commercial contracts, be they domestic or transnational, apparently without realising that...Read more
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Anna Lefcovitch
Solicitor, Arcadis, UK
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Professor Charles Chatterjee
Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute, UK
Contract Design and Simplification – is this now a must-do?
ContractGeneral
Is the pendulum shifting? In a fast, technology-driven world, business stakeholders are keen to move away from dense walls of text in contracts. Increasingly, they understand that contracts are a...Read more
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Paula Doyle
Chief Legal Innovation Officer, World Commerce & Contracting, USA
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Stefania Passera
Contract Designer, Passera Design, World Commerce & Contracting, University of Vaasa, Finland
Bringing the ‘Value Add’ to Commercial Contracts
ContractEngineering
As trained lawyers and legal experts we strive to ensure accurate and compliant textbook legal advice to ensure contracts are legally robust but, ultimately, does this make us a good...Read more
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Eleanor Ager
Commercial Director - Major Projects, Schneider Electric, UK
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