{"product_id":"using-commercial-contracts-isbn-9781119152507","title":"Using Commercial Contracts","description":"\u003ci\u003eUsing Commercial Contracts: a practical guide for engineers and project managers \u003c\/i\u003e examines how the law of contract operates, and the way in which the legal system interprets what a contract actually means. By giving clear, readable and expert advice on key legal issues, this guide provides the manager and engineer with an easily understandable and practical approach to the laws of contract. \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCases Referred to xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStatutes Referred to xxvii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Law in General 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Start – Using an Agent 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Organisation 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Making the Contract Part 1 – The Requirements 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Making the Contract Part 2 – Offer and Acceptance 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Words in Contracts Part 1 – Words Used Pre-Contract 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Words in Contracts Part 2 – Post-Contract 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Terms of the Contract 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Basic Framework – Contracts of Sale 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Liability Exemption Clauses 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Factors that May Invalidate a Contract 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Illegal Contracts 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Privity of Contract 205\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Other Relationships 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Preliminary Agreements and Letters of Intent 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 How the Contract Ends 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Remedies for Breach of Contract and Defences to Claims 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 279\u003c\/p\u003e The author, \u003cb\u003eDavid Wright\u003c\/b\u003e, is a Consultant and lecturer on commercial contracts; also a Visiting lecturer at Manchester University and Sometime visiting lecturer and fellow at Cranfield University. David Wright left university with a good law degree. He worked as a commercial lawyer\/manager\/negotiator in the electrical industry then, successively in the electronics\/avionic and defence industries, on the client's side of the off-shore oil industry, and the contracting side of the chemical\/process engineering industries. Finally he spent three years at board level, in in charge of the contractual and commercial function, in a UK\/communist joint venture process contractor, followed by a period as General Counsel in an electrical\/mechanical engineering group of companies. Since then he has been a lecturer and consultant on contracts and related areas in the electrical\/mechanical and process engineering industries He was a member for over seventeen years of the Institution of Chemical Engineers' committees which write the Institution's model conditions of contract for the process industry and supervise the approval, selection and training of arbitrators and adjudicators. He has taught at a number of universities within the UK in law, contract conditions, negotiation and contract\/project management, including Cranfield, where he held successively a visiting lectureship and visiting fellowship in European Business Law, Leeds, Imperial College and Manchester University, where he has held a visiting lectureship for some twenty years. He is the author of the \u003ci\u003ePurple Book\u003c\/i\u003e, the standard Guide to the ICHEME model conditions of contract, a \"Guide to Consultancy\" and \"Law for Project Managers\". Finally he is an experienced arbitrator, mediator and adjudicator in the process industry.","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990442229989,"sku":"NP9781119152507","price":60.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119152507.jpg?v=1761787847","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/using-commercial-contracts-isbn-9781119152507","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}