Firms Urged to Impose Penalties for Late Payments

by EasyEditor Newswire   Contracts between firms which include late payment clauses need to become a common feature of everyday business practice, claim legal experts ahead of an EU update of a directive aimed at tackling business failures. On average, the majority of small and medium firms have to wait at least 41 days longer …

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Websites Suffering Under-Investment as Designers Face Tough Competition

  by EasyEditor Newswire                                                                                                                                                             16/12/2010 Web designers across the UK are routinely over servicing and under charging clients in a bid to keep the e-commerce revolution on track, claim experts. While 72% of website designers have seen a rise in expectations from their SME clients the majority are struggling to maintain increasingly sophisticated sites on …

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Crackdown on Unfair Terms & Conditions

  by EasyEditor Newswire Firms have been warned to make sure their terms and conditions are clearly defined after the Office of Fair Trading announced a crackdown on contracts which are detrimental to customers or breach consumer protection laws. Currently around 70 per cent of enforcement cases handled by the OFT relate to terms and …

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Is an unsigned contract enforceable?

Many clients don’t come to us until they have a problem. A contract helps a businesses to manage risks but what if it is found to be unenforceable? We have been asked all the common questions – ‘Is an email a binding contract?’, ‘We have a verbal agreement, is this enforceable?’, ‘My client never signed …

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Ts and Cs can help protect against screen scraping

  When you see the word screen scraping, you would imagine it to mean de-icing the car on a winter morning.  But actually, screen scraping is the process of automatically copying data from a website. Screen scraping is a controversial topic – some call it theft whilst others call it gathering information. Essentially scrapers will …

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