'The work's strength lies in two main features. First…it provides guidance by reference to numerous cases (some of which might well have been overlooked) for the purposes of assisting someone to draft a contract effectively. Secondly, it provides “worked examples”…it is very useful and I hope that it will reach a wider audience.'
HH Humphrey Lloyd KC, former judge of the Technology and Construction CourtInternational Construction Law Review (Review of a previous edition)
Do you need help with drafting standard contract clauses, but only have a few minutes? This book is an alphabetical, quick-access guide. It provides up-to-date, practical drafting advice on the purpose and effect of a wide range of the clauses in common use.
The Fifth Edition covers major developments and includes new sections covering:
- 'Good governance', eg compliance with health and safety, bribery and slavery laws
- Revised and expanded sections dealing with:
- Entire agreement clauses
- Exemption clauses
- Indemnities
- Warranties
This book includes:
- A step-by-step commentary
- Examples of best practice in different situations
- Detailed notes on each type of boilerplate clause
- A summary of relevant law, including statutory definitions and case law
- Precedents supplied as an accompanying electronic download
Comprehensive and organised for ease of use, this title guides the user through each clause, explaining its purpose, considering its relevance, and providing illustrative examples.
This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.
Mark Anderson is Managing Partner of Anderson Law LLP and is top-ranked as a leading individual in Chambers & Partners Directory UK 2022 for both life science transactions and intellectual property. He is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, and a member of the Council of the Law Society of England and Wales, representing Business and Commercial Law. He has over 35 years' experience of drafting, negotiating and advising on commercial contracts. Most of his clients are technology-based companies and universities, based in the UK, continental Europe and the United States.
Together with other members of Anderson Law, Mark is the author of several legal textbooks, loose-leaf works and volumes of legal encyclopaedias in the areas of intellectual property and commercial law including A-Z Guide of Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (4th Ed), Technology Law (4th Ed) and Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Ed) published by Bloomsbury Professional.
Victor Woroner is a solicitor at Anderson Law LLP specialising in intellectual property and technology law. He is the principal author of
Technology Transfer (Bloomsbury Professional), several volumes of
Encyclopaedia of Forms and Precedents,
Drafting Confidentiality Agreements (Law Society) and the Execution of Documents (Law Society). He is also a co-author with Mark Anderson of
A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses (Bloomsbury Professional), a companion volume to
Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts, and
Macdonald's Exemption Clauses and Unfair Terms (3rd Ed).
