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
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has announced the launch of three consultations on proposed reforms to UK product safety laws, with the...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published their updated collection of guidance setting out compliance requirements for businesses...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a summary of responses to its consultation on the draft annual plan 2026–27 and released the...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched five investigations into consumer law to determine whether businesses have breached...
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has published its response to the technical consultation on the Competition Act 1998 (Technology Transfer...
Latest Commercial Practice Notes
Claims for breach of contract often involve analysis of whether or not the term alleged to have been breached is one which allows the innocent party...
IntroductionThis Practice Note is part of our LLB Contract Law series written specifically for law students. It the doctrine of discharge of...
OverviewThis Practice Note is part of our LLB Contract Law series written specifically for law students.It explains the doctrine of frustration as a...
This Practice Note outlines when a claim for rectification may be appropriate, what you need to establish to succeed on such a claim and what evidence...
Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note on drafting a contract termination notice for contract breach and drafting an accompanying without...
Latest Commercial Precedents
Stop press: The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/82 bring into...
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[Customer] a company incorporated in [England] with registered number [company number], whose registered...
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of Customer] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under number [insert registered...
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of supplier] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under number [insert registered...
This Agreement is made on [date]Parties1[insert name of supplier] [of OR a company incorporated in [England and Wales] under number [insert registered...
Latest Commercial Q&As
Featured Commercial content
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...
Repudiation of contract
RepudiationThis Practice Note concerns repudiation and sets out what a repudiatory breach of contract means. It explains how a repudiatory breach goes...
If a contract’s actual date and effective date are different, is the effective date enforceable?
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...
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,...
Do the terms ‘Schedule’, ‘Appendix’, ‘Annex’ or similar have any particular meaning in commercial contracts? What should I consider if using them?
Contracts required to be in writing
Contracts required to be in writingThis Practice Note considers the specific situations where a contract is required by law to be in writing:...
Subcontracting
SubcontractingThis Practice Note examines the following legal and practical matters in relation to entering into a subcontract or when granting...
Waiver and release
Waiver and releaseDefining waiverIn the law of contract, the term ‘waiver’ may have different meanings but is most commonly used to denote 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...
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...
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...
What date should be put on a contract where the parties have not signed the contract contemporaneously? Is the date stated as the 'commencement date' in the contract or is it when the last of the parties signs/seals the contract?
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...
What is the significance of the words ‘warrants’ and ‘undertakes’ in a contractual obligation?
Which case law supports that an offer cannot be withdrawn after it has been accepted?
Contract variation
Contract variationThis Practice Note summarises the law, guidance and practice relating to the variation of contracts and deeds. It explains how a...
Electronic signatures
Electronic signaturesAn electronic signature is the electronic equivalent of a handwritten signature and links a person to the contents of an...
Associated legal terms
Adequate procedures
Under the Bribery Act 2010, it is a defence for a relevant commercial organisation to prove it had in place adequate procedures designed to prevent those who perform services for it from committing bribery.
Escrow agent
An escrow agent is an independent third party custodian, with whom an organisation can deposit the source code of a computer program for safekeeping under an escrow arrangement. An example of an escrow agent is the National Computing Centre.
Moral rights (Commercial)
Moral rights are the rights to be identified as author of a work or director of a film (right of paternity); to object to derogatory treatment of a work or film (right of integrity); to have a work or film falsely attributed to an author or director (false attribution right) and to privacy of certain photographs and films. Moral rights must be asserted in writing, but can be waived. The rights do not apply to software, to employers' copyrights, or to material in periodicals or reference works.
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