A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses: : Mark Anderson: Bloomsbury Professional

A-Z Guide to Boilerplate and Commercial Clauses

Description

'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.

1. Introduction
2. Acknowledgements
3. Affiliates, group companies and subsidiaries
4. Agency, partnership and joint venture (denials of)
5. Agents for service
6. Agreeing to enter and signing an agreement (execution and signature block clauses)
7. Amendment or variation
8. Announcements
9. Appointment
10. Arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and the use of experts
11. Assignment and novation
12. Auditing, inspection and records
13. Best endeavours, reasonable endeavours and all reasonable endeavours
14. Breach
15. Capacity (and authority)
16. Charges
17. Commencement date
18. Completion
19. Conditions precedent and subsequent
20. Confidentiality
21. Consent (or approval or acceptance)
22. Consequences of termination (survival of terms)
23. Consultation
24. Consumer contracts
25. Contra proferentem
26. Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999
27. Costs and expenses
28. Counterparts (or duplicates)
29. Covenants
30. Cumulative remedies
31. Currency
32. Data protection
33. Date of agreement
34. Deeds
35. Definitions
36. Deposits and part payments
37. Disclaimers
38. Entire and final agreement and acknowledgement of non-reliance
39. Exclusive, non-exclusive and sole
40. Exemption clauses
41. Expiry and termination at will
42. Force majeure
43. Freedom on information
44. Further assurance
45. Good faith and 'agreement to agree'
46. Indemnities
47. Indexation (inflation)
48. Insolvency (termination for)
49. Insurance
50. Intellectual property
51. Interest
52. Interpretation
53. Joint and several liability
54. Language
55. Law and jurisdiction
56. Net sales value (or net invoice price)
57. Notices
58. Option and right of first refusal
59. Parties
60. Payment terms
61. Priority of terms (or order of precedence)
62. Receipts
63. Recitals
64. Reporting
65. Representations
66. Retention of title
67. Schedules
68. Set-off and retention
69. Severance and invalidity
70. Stamp duty (and Stamp Duty Land Tax)
71. Sub-contracting
72. Subject to contract (and other denials of a legally-binding contract)
73. Successors and assigns
74. Termination for breach
75. Territory
76. Time of the essence
77. Time periods
78. Title (or property) and risk
79. Value Added Tax
80. Waivers and releases
81. Warranties
Appendix Boilerplate Agreement

Product details

Published	29 May 2025
Format	Hardback
Edition	5th
Extent	832
ISBN	9781526529503
Imprint	Bloomsbury Professional
Dimensions	248 x 156 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

It is one of the best, if not the best, guides to commercial and boilerplate clauses and should be close at hand for any commercial practitioner.

Student Law Journal (of a previous edition)
If you're an English practitioner and you routinely find yourself with your head under the hood of contract boilerplate, you'll want a copy of this book … A rich resource.

Ken Adams, Adams on Contract Drafting blog (of the previous edition)