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Contractual terms - from cradle to the grave
19 Dec 2018
Professor Ewan McKendrick's annual contract law updates are a highly valued element of our Informed Counsel programme. Professor McKendrick's session opened our inaugural Informed Counsel conferences in London and Newcastle, and took us (in contractual terms) from cradle to grave. Here are the practical highlights.
Bond Dickinson joins the Accord Project to realise the future of law through connected contracts
31 Jul 2017
ontract management systems do not manage contracts. Many provide excellent account management functions, allowing organisations and enterprises to compare supplier performance in relation to prices, deadlines and other metrics. However, they work only by reference to data extracted from contractual documents, and not by reference to the contracts themselves. Whether that data is extracted manually or through increasingly sophisticated document reading software, the result is a gap between the contract and the data that is actually being used to manage the contractual relationship.
A warning to check your payment schedules
17 Oct 2016
We previously considered the case of Bouygues (UK) Ltd v Febrey Structures Ltd as the latest decision on interim payments which has been before the courts.
Since then, on 13 October 2016, the appeal decision has been handed down in the case of Balfour Beatty Regional Construction Ltd v Grove Developments Ltd. This case considered a contractor's right to make an interim application in circumstances where the payment schedule in the contract provided for 23 interim applications only and had not taken into account that the project could overrun and that further payment applications may be needed.
Since then, on 13 October 2016, the appeal decision has been handed down in the case of Balfour Beatty Regional Construction Ltd v Grove Developments Ltd. This case considered a contractor's right to make an interim application in circumstances where the payment schedule in the contract provided for 23 interim applications only and had not taken into account that the project could overrun and that further payment applications may be needed.
Oral amendments to a contract can be effective in spite of the inclusion of an anti-oral variation clause within that contract
28 Jul 2016
In MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd (2016) the Court of Appeal ruled that a clause in a contract purporting to preclude any variation of the original agreement other than in writing and in accordance with that clause’s terms does not prohibit the parties from varying the contract’s terms orally.
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