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
This week's edition of Commercial weekly highlights includes: analysis of the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 that came into force on 24...
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has published guidance on the application of the CAP Code to 'Dark Patterns' in digital advertising. The...
Two complaints were received by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) regarding an email from Maki Online Services Ltd t/a Nino Apply, which...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has updated its guidance for consumer bodies seeking designation as super-complainants under the...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has updated its guidance on countering Russian sanctions evasion with a new section 6 focusing on export...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
UK Rome II—application and interpretationThis Practice Note is for use when determining applicable law in the courts of England and Wales respect of...
UK Rome I—application and interpretationThis Practice Note is for use when determining applicable law where the contract was entered into on or after...
IP—new starter design rights guideThis new starter guide provides an introduction to design rights. It focuses on highlighting the basic principles...
Comparative advertisingMany businesses wish to promote their goods or services by reference to those of a competitor to gain a commercial advantage....
Introduction to designsThis Practice Note provides an introduction to design law and covers the various design rights (both registered and...
Latest Commercial Precedents
Termination notice for non-payment—repudiation with an antecedent breach noticeDear [insert name of authorised recipient on behalf of...
Breach notice for non-payment—without an express right to terminate and without time being of the essenceDear [insert name of authorised...
Breach notice for other breaches—without an express right to terminate and without time being of the essenceDear [insert name of authorised...
Breach notice for other breaches—with time being of the essenceDear [insert name of authorised representative of the counter-party],[insert name of...
Breach notice for non-payment—with time being of the essenceDear [insert name of authorised representative of the counter-party],[insert name of...
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
Climate Change Mitigation (model laws definition)
means human intervention or efforts to reduce the sources of, enhance the sinks of, or remove Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Doorstep selling
Doorstep selling means certain contracts for goods and services concluded between a trader and a consumer away from a trader’s place of business (an off-premises contract), for example at a consumer’s house or in the street.
Escrow agreement
In the context of information technology, escrow means depositing the source code of software with a third party custodian on terms that allow the code to be released if specified events (such as, for example, insolvency) take place.
CONTACT US
