Contracts and Agreements: Understanding Contracts and Agreements

You'll find everything you need to know about contracts right here, from employment and housing agreements to consumer rights and business dealings. Our expert guidance makes legal terms crystal clear, helping you understand your rights whether you're dealing with written contracts, verbal agreements, or everyday situations. Contracts And Agreements is here to help.

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Understanding Umbrella Agreements

Umbrella agreements are used to try and cover future possibilities that the negotiating business parties presume will occur. Umbrella agreements are basicall...

Broken Service Agreements

Broken service agreements or breach of contract can happen for any number of reasons, and the agreement can be broken by either service provider or customer....

Giving an Undertaking

In some circumstances, it is appropriate to give an ‘undertaking’ to act or not to act in a particular way. An undertaking is a means by which you promis...

International Agreements

International agreements are made between entities in public international law such as between two or more states (countries), or between multi-national orga...

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A Legally Binding Contract That You Didn't Mean to Enter?

The old saying "Be careful what you wish for" is often credited to The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs (1902), though its origins are likely much older. Whatever...

Implied Terms in Contracts

Implied terms may have to be added to a contract so that it represents the agreement reached by the parties and the law which applies to that type of contrac...

Tenancy Agreements and Deposits

Since 6th April 2007 landlords have been required to place the deposit paid by tenants, in respect of most residential tenancy agreements, into an authorised...

New Law on Proving Consumer Contracts

Proving that a debt is owed under a consumer contract should be fairly straightforward. However, companies who lend money to consumers will often have hundre...

New Case Law on Pre-Nuptial Agreements

It has been a long-standing principle of English law that prenuptial agreements are not legally binding. A marriage is intended to be a life-long contract �...

Misrepresentation and Breach of Contract

A legally binding contract or agreement is usually formed of written and / or verbal terms setting out, more or less precisely, what the parties to the contr...

Policies and Contracts

A policy is different to a contract, in that it is not necessarily binding on the people that it affects. It does however provide rules and outline procedure...

Litigation: A Last Resort

The Civil Procedure Rules came into force in April 1999 and govern the way in which civil litigation is carried out in this country. The rules have been amen...

Mediation and Arbitration

If you are in breach of contract, or are on the receiving end of a breach of contract, you may be able to settle the dispute by way of mediation or arbitrati...

Do You Have to Know About a Breach to Be Liable?

In some circumstances, a party is not liable for breach of contract if they honestly didn’t know that what was happening amounted to a breach of a contract...

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