Category Archives: contracts

Shocking contract law news

July 10, 2007 – 8:16 pm

Outlaw tells the story of City money jugglers Forum Global Equity who failed to persuade a court that an unprofitable deal was not contractually binding on them. They had bought the distressed debt notes of Parmalat and agreed to punt them on to bankers Bear Stearns for €3Million.
Which is a pretty big bag of nose […]

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the Internet and paralegality

November 15, 2006 – 10:09 pm

Geeklawyer stumbled across a rather dull story about eBay and its rules of conduct in relation to merchants. In summary if you do business on eBay you agree to lots of stuff. The stuff includes VeRO which is designed to assert the rights of an intellectual property owner against intruders. Thus if someone on eBay […]

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T-Mobile VoIP Skype and instant messaging ban

May 11, 2006 – 10:46 pm

Geeklawyer has a spiffy 3G mobile phone; a source of envy and even potential larceny. His phone company is T-Mobile. So some concern then when that the Register reported that T-Mobile have it in their terms and conditions that voice-over IP and instant messaging are banned. For those not familiar with voice-over IP it is […]

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