01
Unlimited liability
HOW IT READS
The Supplier shall indemnify the Client against all losses, damages, costs and expenses arising out of or in connection with the Services, without limit.
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Ten contract clauses you should never sign
The clauses we see most often in ordinary business contracts, what each one actually costs you, and the wording to ask for instead. Plain English, no jargon.
WHAT YOU GET
Ten clauses One page each
Real wording How each reads in the wild
A replacement What to ask for instead
Jurisdiction UK contract law
Format PDF, no account needed
The ten
None of these are unusual. That is the problem.
Every one of these appears in contracts sent by reputable companies, drafted by real solicitors, in deals nobody thinks of as risky. They are standard because they work, and they work because most people sign without reading them.
01
Unlimited liability
No cap at all, or a cap with carve-outs wide enough to make it meaningless.
02
Automatic renewal
Rolls for another year unless you cancel in a window you have already missed.
03
Payment terms in a subclause
The headline says 30 days. Clause 14.1(c)(ii) says 90.
04
Unilateral variation
They can change the terms on notice. You agreed to that in advance.
05
One-way indemnity
You cover their losses, including the ones caused by their own mistakes.
06
Background IP capture
An assignment drafted broadly enough to take the tools you arrived with.
07
Termination for convenience
They can walk in 30 days. You are committed for the full term.
08
Unbounded restrictive covenants
A non-compete with no radius, no end date, or neither.
09
Exclusivity and MFN pricing
You cannot sell elsewhere, and they hold your best price forever.
10
Entire agreement
Everything you were promised in the pitch is deleted on signature.
No email required
Three of them, in full, right here.
Read these before you decide whether the other seven are worth an email address.
02
Automatic renewal
HOW IT READS
This Agreement shall renew automatically for successive periods of twelve months unless either party gives not less than ninety days written notice prior to the end of the then-current term.
10
Entire agreement
HOW IT READS
This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties and supersedes all prior representations, warranties, understandings and agreements, whether written or oral.
The other seven
Payment terms, indemnities, IP, covenants, exclusivity, variation and convenience.
Same format for each: how it reads, what it costs, and the wording to send back.
On its way.
Check your inbox. If it is not there in a few minutes it will be in
the spam folder, which is where most PDFs about contract law end up.
The limit of a guide
Knowing the clause is not the same as catching it.
You will read this once and spot the first two for a month. Then a Friday afternoon arrives with the eighth contract of the week, the renewal clause is in a schedule, and the guide is in a downloads folder.
A playbook is this guide with your numbers written into it, checked against every contract the same way, whether you are reading carefully or not.
01
Read the guide
You catch the clauses you remember, on the contracts you have time to read.
02
Write a playbook
Your thresholds recorded once: cap at 2x, notice under 30 days, payment at 30.
03
Run it every time
Every contract checked against the same positions, including the eighth one on a Friday.
Or send us the contract and skip the reading.
Thirty minutes on a call, your positions written down, and the next contract comes back marked against them.