Drafting and Negotiating Commercial Contracts

"This book provides a modern, fresh and practical approach to the skill of drafting. It explains how to draft legally effective commercial contracts, considers negotiating issues commonly encountered in commercial drafting, and explains how contracts are interpreted by the courts.It provides notes and commentary on a range of legal, practical and commercial issues which commonly arise when drafting commercial contracts and practical examples are given throughout, in order to illustrate clearly the points made.The book offers clause-by-clause guidance through a detailed commercial agreement, highlighting problem areas, explaining why the agreement is structured and drafted in a particular way, indicating where words have acquired meaning according to case law or legislation, suggesting best practice, commenting on possible solutions to practical problems and discussing 'boilerplate' terms and their usefulness."