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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
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched an investigation into Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, trading as Adobe, over...
This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: regulations bringing certain provisions of the Digital Markets, Competition and...
Two complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) concerning the basis of the price comparison and the end-of-life...
Commercial analysis: On 9 March 2026, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) published guidance titled ‘Complying with consumer law when using AI...
Tax analysis: In Muller UK and Ireland Group LLP and others, the Court of Appeal dismissed the appellants’ appeals against the Upper Tribunal (UT)’s...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
This Practice Note considers how contractual terms may be implied by fact. Implied terms are not stated in the contract but arise 'by implication' to...
This Practice Note considers applicable law clauses also known as governing law clauses, proper law clauses or choice of law clauses. It considers the...
This Practice Note considers the regulation of consumer credit advertisements under the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Credit sourcebook...
OverviewThis Practice Note is part of our LLB Contract Law series written specifically for law students.It explains the doctrine of frustration as a...
Part 26A restructuring plans (RPs) have been available from 26 June 2020 under the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (CIGA 2020). CIGA...
Latest Commercial Precedents
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Customer] a company incorporated in [England] with registered number [company number], whose registered...
This clause outlines provisions for standard non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements (NDAs) to ensure climate change and environmental issues are...
Schedule—Transition1Introduction1.1This Schedule describes how the Services will be transferred from the Customer to the Supplier on or before the...
1Interpretation1.1The following definitions and rules of interpretation apply in this Schedule:Customer’s Scheme•the [description of pension...
1Interpretation1.1The following definitions and rules of interpretation apply in this Schedule:Broadly Comparable Pension Scheme•a pension scheme...
Latest Commercial Q&As
Featured Commercial content
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...
Repudiation of contract
RepudiationThis Practice Note concerns repudiation and sets out what a repudiatory breach of contract means. It explains how a repudiatory breach goes...
If a contract’s actual date and effective date are different, is the effective date enforceable?
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...
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,...
Do the terms ‘Schedule’, ‘Appendix’, ‘Annex’ or similar have any particular meaning in commercial contracts? What should I consider if using them?
Contracts required to be in writing
Contracts required to be in writingThis Practice Note considers the specific situations where a contract is required by law to be in writing:...
Subcontracting
SubcontractingThis Practice Note examines the following legal and practical matters in relation to entering into a subcontract or when granting...
Waiver and release
Waiver and releaseDefining waiverIn the law of contract, the term ‘waiver’ may have different meanings but is most commonly used to denote 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...
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...
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...
What date should be put on a contract where the parties have not signed the contract contemporaneously? Is the date stated as the 'commencement date' in the contract or is it when the last of the parties signs/seals the contract?
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...
What is the significance of the words ‘warrants’ and ‘undertakes’ in a contractual obligation?
Which case law supports that an offer cannot be withdrawn after it has been accepted?
Contract variation
Contract variationThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the variation of contracts and deeds. It explains how a...
Electronic signatures
Electronic signaturesAn electronic signature is the electronic equivalent of a handwritten signature and links a person to the contents of an...
Associated legal terms
British Islands
The Interpretation Act 1978 provides that British Islands includes the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, but not the Republic of Ireland.
Illegality
A bar to the enforcement of an otherwise enforceable contract as the courts cannot compel one party to complete an immoral or illegal act even if that act would not have been illegal at the time of contracting.
Social media
Internet-based platforms which allow for interactions between individuals or the broadcast of content to the wider world and which are far more interactive than traditional broadcast media.
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