A recent decision of the High Court has served as a useful reminder and warning to parties of the need to
carefully draft contracts of suretyship, and the distinction between indemnities (primary obligations) and guarantees (secondary obligations).
Not exact matches
By
carefully reviewing and revising the
contract, we will revise the
contract into a well -
drafted, finalized, and advantageous
contract to meet your needs.
However, to succeed in reducing liability, employment
contracts must be
carefully drafted.
The courts hesitate to infer what the parties must have intended when they have entered into a lengthy and
carefully -
drafted contract because any omission may be oversight or deliberate.
I've won one case where this happened (where there was extensive email correspondence between business lawyers regarding the changes that would be made in each
draft and there the version signed did not correspond to the last version signed electronically in a very long document on paper and there were other indicia of fraud), but by far the more common outcome is to bind the party signing the document (especially in a commercial context) and to consider failing to
carefully read all terms of the final
draft to be negligent on the part of the party signing the
contract.
Therefore, employers should ensure that employment
contracts or policies for part - time workers are
carefully drafted to avoid the risk of discrimination.
Lawyers should
carefully consider nomenclature when
drafting a
contract intended to govern a long term relationship.
However, since employers regularly
draft these
contracts in their favour, employees should
carefully consider what they are agreeing to or whether they should agree to a
contract at all.
As such, for
contracts with renewal clauses,
carefully drafted «future - proof» termination clauses that would continue to be valid pursuant to the ESA no matter how many times the fixed - term
contract is renewed are an absolute necessity.
Employers should make sure that their employment
contracts are
carefully drafted and reviewed in order to limit their obligations to the Employment Standards Act.
A
carefully drafted Marriage
Contract can save a lot of the time, stress, and cost, associated with a divorce.
The bank's standard deposit
contract will have been
drafted and
carefully reviewed by their legal counsel.