About Commercial Law
As a commercial lawyer, you have to cover a lot of ground. Today, you might be drawing up agreements for suppliers. Tomorrow, you might be dealing with a query on intellectual property. When you're wearing so many hats, sometimes the real challenge is simply knowing where to start. Whatever the challenge, Lexis+ Commercial is the only place you need to look. You'll find clear, concise practice notes that not only explain the legal principles, but include practical tips on how to apply them in real life - with direct links to the relevant legislation, case law, commentary, forms and precedents you'll need. And because an increasing number of our forms and precedents are being automated, with LexisSmart, you can draft a contract or generate a whole suite of documents just by filling in one questionnaire. Plus, you'll get regular news updates and analysis, to help you keep an eye on what's happening in the law and the market.
Contracts
Helping you deliver watertight contracts. We cover the contract lifecycle from negotiation to termination. Providing guidance and precedents to assist with all aspects of contract management.
Contract clause bank
Offering a wealth of practical drafting and negotiating checklists, precedent contract clauses and practice notes to help you confidently negotiate, draft and execute robust commercial agreements.
Supplier management
Our supplier management tools and guidance help you build resilient supply chains. Assisting with supplier selection, the procurement of goods and services, sustainability, compliance and more.
Key developments
Whether you have a broad or niche commercial practice, staying on top of ongoing developments is a challenge. Our weekly highlights and topic trackers keep you up to date with all the latest developments.
Topics We Cover
Latest Commercial News
Which? has filed a £3bn claim against Apple with the Competition Appeal Tribunal, alleging breaches of UK competition law. The action accuses Apple of...
Law360, London: : The EU's antitrust watchdog hit Meta Platforms Inc with a €797.8m fine on 14 November 2024 for giving its Facebook Marketplace an...
This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: analysis of the Supreme Court decision in SkyKick UK Ltd v Sky Ltd in which Sky was held...
The European Commission has imposed a €797.72m fine on Meta for violating EU antitrust rules. The company was found to have abused its dominant...
The Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that the time bars set out in the Hague Rules and the Hague Visby Rules apply to breaches of duty by carriers...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
Discontinuing a public procurement processIntroductionA contracting authority may decide to discontinue an award procedure. This Practice Note...
Commercial trackerThis commercial tracker tracks the progress of UK consultations, calls for evidence and inquiries, legislation (including Bills in...
Carriage of goods by sea—charterpartiesThis Practice Note explains the law relating to charterparties in the context of an arrangement for the...
Standard terms and conditions—incorporationThis Practice Note summarises the practical steps which a business can take to successfully incorporate its...
Doing business in: CanadaUpdated in October 2024IntroductionCanada boasts a stable, predictable, and diversified economy. It has the world’s tenth...
Latest Commercial Precedents
Online terms and conditions for the supply of goods—business-to-consumerFORTHCOMING CHANGE: On 24 May 2024, the Digital Markets, Competition and...
Supply of warehousing and transport services agreement—pro-customerThis Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of supplier][ of OR a company...
Email notices and email footersTrading disclosures[registered name] is a [limited company OR limited liability partnership] (number [registered...
Intellectual property licence—pro-licenseeThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name], a company incorporated in [England and Wales]...
Executing documents—training materialsThese Training Materials provide an introduction to execution and cover the principal areas of executing simple...
Latest Commercial Q&As
Featured Commercial content
Mistake in contract law
Mistake in contract lawThis Practice Note considers the legal concept of mistake in contract law. It examines common mistake, mutual mistake,...
Repudiation
RepudiationThis Practice Note concerns repudiation and sets out what a repudiatory breach of contract means. It explains how a repudiatory breach goes...
Agent and principal relationships with third parties
Agent and principal relationships with third partiesThis Practice Note deals with the relationships arising between principals, agents and third...
Termination and expiry of contracts
Termination and expiry of contractsThis Practice Note provides an overview of contract expiry and of the different causes of termination and ways to...
Contract variation
Contract variationThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the variation of contracts and deeds. It explains how a...
Joint, several, and joint and several liability
Joint, several, and joint and several liabilityContractWhere a contract is made by two or more parties it may contain a promise or obligation made by...
Fiduciary Duties
Fiduciary DutiesWho is a fiduciary?There is no comprehensive list of the relationships which give rise to the existence of fiduciary duties under...
Types of carrier of goods
Types of carrier of goodsThis Practice Note provides an introduction to two types of cargo carrier; common carriers and private carriers, and explains...
In a business-to-business contract where a contractual long-stop date has passed but the parties wish to continue with the contract, should they document their intention to continue or enter into a new contract?
Electronic signatures
Electronic signaturesAn electronic signature is the electronic equivalent of a handwritten signature and links a person to the contents of an...
What is the meaning of a non-exclusive agent? Does this give the agent the right to sell goods other than those of the principal?
Deeds
DeedsUnder English law, legally binding agreements can be made orally, in writing or by deed.This Practice Notice considers the circumstances in which...
Scope and authority of the agent
Scope and authority of the agentThis Practice Note describes the nature and degree of an agent's authority which is conferred upon it by the...
Nature and types of agency
Nature and types of agencyThis Practice Note is an introduction to agency. It describes the essentials of the agency relationship between the...
Exclusion and limitation of liability
Exclusion and limitation of liabilityThis Practice Note considers exclusion and limitation of liability in business-to-business (B2B) contracts. It...
Carriage of goods by sea—the Hague-Visby Rules
Carriage of goods by sea—the Hague-Visby RulesThis Practice Note explains the Hague-Visby rules (the Rules) which are an international convention...
Subcontracting
SubcontractingThis Practice Note examines the following legal and practical matters in relation to entering into a subcontract or when granting...
Agreements to agree
Agreements to agreeThis Practice Note considers agreements to agree, and why an agreement to agree certain contractual terms at a future date has...
Associated legal terms
Cartel
A cartel is an anti-competitive agreement, anti-competitive concerted practice, or anti-competitive arrangement by competitors to fix prices, make rigged bids (collusive tenders), establish output restrictions or quotas, or share or divide markets by allocating customers, suppliers, territories, or lines of commerce.
Distance selling
Distance selling means selling goods or services to consumers without the simultaneous physical presence of the supplier and the consumer.
Materially distort the economic behaviour
To ‘materially distort the economic behaviour’ of an average consumer means to appreciably impair their ability to make an informed decision, thereby causing them to take a transactional decision that they would not have taken otherwise. The impairment must therefore be significant enough to change the decision that the average consumer would make. For example, if the average consumer buys a product they would not have bought otherwise or do not exercise cancellation rights when they would have otherwise done so. A practice that does not affect or is unlikely to affect the economic behaviour of average consumers is therefore unlikely to be unfair under the general prohibition.
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