Contracting with small businesses: include unfair terms in your standard form contracts at your peril

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 550
Author(s):  
Anne Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Consumer Law ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Form Contract ◽  
Unfair Terms ◽  
Gas Space ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Standard Form Contract

Many companies operating in the oil and gas space might think that the Australian Consumer Law has little impact on them. However, in November 2016, amendments were made to the Competition and Consumer Act extending the unfair contract terms regime under that legislation beyond dealings with individual consumers to small businesses. This reform has potential far-reaching consequences for companies in the oil and gas sector which use standard form contracts with suppliers of goods and services. A standard form contract is one that is prepared by one party to the contract where the other party has little or no opportunity to negotiate the terms. If the contract counterparty is a small business (employing less than 20 employees) and if the upfront price is no more than $300 000 or $1 million if the contract is for more than 12 months, it is caught by this regime. If the standard form contract contains terms which are unfair, those terms may be declared void and there may be other consequences, including orders for monetary redress, penalties and the entire contract being avoided. This extended abstract will explain the business to business unfair contracts regime, including what contracts it affects, which contracts and terms are excluded from the regime, and it will examine, by way of some case studies, the types of terms which have been found to be unfair.

Internal standards of audit activity «The contract for the provision of audit services

Auditor ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Лосева ◽  
N. Loseva
Keyword(s):  
Standard Form ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Internal Standards ◽  
Form Contract ◽  
Audit Activity ◽  
Standard Form Contract

The article deals with the content of internal standards of auditing, order of the conclusion and content of the contract for the audit of accounting (financial) statements, the standard form contract.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Standard Form Contract in Financing Agreement of Sharia Banking in Islamic Law Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Audina Noor Arifa ◽  
Burhanudin Harahap
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Legal Study ◽  
Form Contract ◽  
Mutual Agreement ◽  
Standard Form Contract

This study analyzed the implementation of standard form contract in financing agreement of Sharia banking in Islamic law perspective. This study aimed at discovering the process of mutual agreement on standard form contract of a financing agreement in Sharia banking. This study employed an empirical legal study. It was aimed at studying one or more social phenomena by analyzing it. This study found that during the process of mutual agreement on standard form contract between the bank and the customer, the element of ijab and qabul had been satisfied since the bank had made an offer and the customer accept the bank offer. However, it was found that the customer did not possess a right to change the content of the standard form contract. If there was a customer felt an objection, the requirement of a valid agreement is not satisfied since there is al-ikrah or compulsion factor in accepting the agreement. For the agreement is not met, the agreement will be considered as broken (fasid) and can be annulled.

scholarly journals Control judicial de la validez del convenio arbitral en un contrato de adhesión: Sentencia Núm. 409/2017 de 27 de junio del Tribunal Supremo = Arbitration agrement and standard form contracts: judgement number 409/2017 of 27th june of the Spanish Supreme Court

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 544
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel Blanco García ◽  
Pablo Quinzá Redondo
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Form Contract ◽  
Standard Form Contract

Resumen: La sentencia núm. 409/2017 del Tribunal Supremo aborda la posible aplicación de un convenio arbitral contenido en un contrato de adhesión en un asunto sobre la nulidad de contratos financieros SWAP y PUT. En particular, se aborda el alcance de la competencia del juez ordinario pata interpretar el convenio arbitral, así como las propias cuestiones cubiertas por el mismo.Palabras clave: arbitraje, contratos de adhesión, convenio arbitral.Abstract: Judgment number 408/2017 of the Spanish Supreme Court deals with the potential application of an arbitration agreement in the case of a standard form contract. In particular, it focuses on the jurisdiction of the judge to interpret the arbitration agreement and on the questions that are covered by the arbitration agreement itself.Keywords: arbitration, standard form contract, arbitration agreement

scholarly journals “Cláusulas de permanencia”, prácticas comerciales desleales, y estrategias competitivas a la luz de ciertos contratos con operadoras móviles en España: Una visión holística del asunto

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna María Ruiz Martin
Keyword(s):  
Standard Form ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Consumer Contract ◽  
Consumer Law ◽  
European Consumer ◽  
Business To Consumer ◽  
Telephone Operators ◽  
Telecommunications Market ◽  
Business To Business

En el contenido de determinadas “condiciones generales de la contratación” establecidas en contratos de adhesión, y en concreto, de algunas compañías de telefonía móvil, es una práctica común, la inclusión de cierta “cláusula predispuesta” que por sus características y tras el análisis realizado en esta contribución podrían llegar a considerarse como una cláusula abusiva. Por otro lado, podrían además, tener la condición de práctica comercial desleal según lo establecido en la Ley 3/1991 de Competencia desleal española, atendiendo a lo dispuesto en la Directiva de prácticas comerciales desleales. El análisis pretende poner de relieve estos dos aspectos que están relacionados con otro problema de fondo. La dificultad y falta de mecanismos adecuados entre el reproche de deslealtad y el reproche que se hace en el ámbito del Derecho de los contratos de consumo Business to Consumer-B2C de abusividad a ciertas prácticas. De otro lado, se analiza de forma sucinta, si la inclusión de estas cláusulas podría considerarse como una estrategia competitiva en el Mercado de las Telecomunicaciones de tipo Business to Business-B2B por aquellos operadores que las predisponen en sus contratos de adhesión frente a los operadores, que siendo de menor tamaño, no las predisponen en estos mismos contratos. General Conditions of the Contracts, which are included in certain Adhesion contracts (Standard Form Contracts) and are drafted by the telephone operators companies, include a very special kind of clauses, “retention covenants”. These clauses constitute a limitation for the users and consumers, which also it refrain them to withdrawal the contract with the Mobil operator. One of the drawbacks is that, these legal conditions are allowed to the detriment of the weaker party, the consumer. According to the analysis, these kinds of clauses can be also constitutive of aggressive practices typified in the current Spanish Unfair competition Act and the European Consumer Law, stressing the problems between the connection between the unfair commercial practices and Consumer Contract Law, i.e.: considering these clauses not only as abusives but also unfairs. Moreover, these practices from a Business-to-Business (B2B) approach could be considered an anti-competitive practice, because by means of its establishemnt in these contracts, are hampering the competition, in the Telecommunications Market

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