We are a commercial legal practice concentrating on three principal practice areas, Corporate, Litigation and Property.
We aim to provide a distinctive service to achieve excellence for all our clients and strive to develop good working relationships.
We have 13 fee earners aiming to provide sensible advice and committed to finding practical solutions for business needs.
We are located in the heart of Matford Business Park and are Open To Business.
The law on agency surrounding a person engaged on a self-employed basis by a company to provide assistance in obtaining new clients and/or negotiating contracts on behalf of a company, is a complicated area of the law. The concept of agency and its application, (intentional or not) and the operation of the Commercial Agents Regulations 1993 (Regulations) has given rise to much case law.
It is not uncommon to see in documents where the parties have not agreed all the finer details a provision requiring the parties to conduct negotiations in good faith. The Courts have historically concluded that a simple provision which was a bare agreement to negotiate has no legal content. Any such agreement has historically been held to be unenforceable due to lacking the necessary certainty.
In March 2009 the UK Government published a draft Bribery Bill which was aimed at modernising and simplifying the existing legislation in connection with bribery. There are at present a number of pieces of legislation with the intention that they be consolidated and, in addition, to replace the various current offences with two general offences of bribery.
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