| 1 | Bribery Act 2010: toolkit A toolkit to assist with Bribery Act 2010 compliance. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Guarantees and indemnities This practice note examines legal and drafting issues relating to guarantees and indemnities where the obligations of a third party are guaranteed and/or indemnified. This practice note considers the legal distinctions between primary obligations (indemnities, performance guarantees, performance bonds) and secondary obligations (guarantees). It provides an overview of relevant contractual issues relating to guarantees and indemnities (the statute of frauds, capacity) as well as legal issues (undue influence, duress, role of directors). It also provides links to our more detailed content on performance bonds, payment guarantees, comfort letters and our standard form guarantees and indemnities. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Overview of Copyright This note provides an overview of the main features of the UK law of copyright. It outlines the categories of work protected by copyright; the requirements for copyright protection; the duration of copyright; the rules regarding ownership of copyright; the main acts which constitute primary and secondary infringement of copyright; the main permitted acts; and the civil and criminal remedies available to a copyright owner. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Supply contracts: overview The overview summarises the key considerations when drafting and using standard terms and conditions of sale or purchase of goods, including the effective incorporation of such terms, the effect of pre-contractual representations, the underlying statutory framework and the use of exclusion clauses to exclude or limit liability. The overview also considers provisions commonly found in supply contracts dealing with such matters as specification, delivery, acceptance, price, payment and retention of title. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Bribery Act 2010 A practice note about the Bribery Act 2010, which received Royal Assent in April 2010 and came into force on 1 July 2011. The background to the Act is described in Practice note, Bribery: law reform. PLC's materials on the Bribery Act are set out in Bribery Act 2010: toolkit. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | Bribery Act 2010 anti-corruption policies This note addresses the issues to consider in creating an anti-corruption policy with particular emphasis on the Bribery Act 2010, the new offence of failing to prevent bribery under section 7 of that Act and the adequate procedures defence to that offence. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Bribery Act 2010: acquisitions and joint ventures This note addresses the issues relating to corruption to consider when acquiring a business or shares in a target company or entering into a joint venture, particularly in light of the Bribery Act 2010. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 8 | Bribery Act 2010: corporate criminal liability This note considers how criminal liability for offences under the Bribery Act 2010 may attach to companies. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 9 | Bribery Act 2010: corporate hospitality, gifts and expenses This note looks at how promotional expenses, such as corporate hospitality and gifts, may be dealt with under the Bribery Act 2010. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 10 | Bribery Act 2010: facilitation payments This note looks at facilitation payments, examining in particular what they are, why the lack of an exemption in the Bribery Act has been controversial, how the SFO plans to enforce the Bribery Act in relation to them and what can be done to prevent them being made. Information is also given on the position the OECD and other countries have taken towards facilitation payments. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 11 | Business interruption: pandemics and other civil emergencies A practice note giving organisations an overview of some of the legal and practical issues arising from the threat of disruption by pandemic influenza and other civil emergencies. Practical Law is grateful to Alexis Roberts, a partner in the Insurance & Reinsurance Group of Pinsent Masons LLP, for his assistance with aspects of this note. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 12 | Copyright licences in construction documents This note provides guidance on copyright licences in construction projects, particularly in the commercial property development sector. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Framework agreements This note is about the effective use of framework agreements in both the private and public sectors. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Retention of title An introduction to the law applying to retention of title clauses. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Variation of guaranteed obligations A note about the law relating to variation of guaranteed obligations. It examines the extent to which an underlying contract, which is the subject of a guarantee, can be amended or varied without that variation of contract discharging the guarantee and releasing the guarantor from its liability. | Practice notes | Maintained |