Law

How to Make Contract Terms Stick

February 14, 2021 Paul Brennan
Law
How to Make Contract Terms Stick
Show Notes Transcript

Be precise.


© Paul Brennan 2018. All rights Reserved.

Extract from "The Art of War, Peace & Palaver: The Contentious Guide to Legal Disputes" 



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Paul Brennan is the principal of Brennans Solicitors, a law firm located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, where he practices with his wife, Diane in the areas of business law, litigation, property and wills/estates.

Over the years, by working in various countries, he noticed how similar the law can be. He set out to explain the law in a simple and often humorous way.

He has written several books about law and lawyers.

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You may be pleased to hear that there is a way that you can make a person entering into a contract with you “jump when you say jump”. It is to have a contract or a certain term which dots every “i” and crosses every “t” in such a way that nothing is left to the imagination. Courts will respect such a rigid framework and not disregard the strict intention of the parties. If you are a tedious, pedantic person, you could try to draft your own “rigid term” contract however it may be best left to your lawyer. A good example of this is a standard property contract, which has page after page of small print. 

But in every important deal that you enter into there will be certain parts of the contract that you want to stick. Now, you can let your lawyer guess what these areas are, or you can say what you think they may be. Some lawyers are very good at guessing depending on their experience (especially in retrospect if you or your previous lawyer have messed up the deal) but it is quicker and easier for you to give the matter some thought and make sure that the terms of the contract target particular common issues in your industry.


© Paul Brennan 2018. All rights Reserved.

Extract from "The Art of War, Peace & Palaver: The Contentious Guide to Legal Disputes"