Presentation to Business for Breakfast members in January 2010 about the most common statutes to be used against a company and demonstrating why to have a company legal adviser.

1. Business For BreakfastPresentation12th January 2010Tel: 01454 412107Web: www.hutchinson-legal.co.uk

3. Paul Hutchinson – what I do...

5. Masters in International Business Law, University of Wales Aberystwyth

6. Ph.D Doctor of Laws (Advanced Commercial Law), University of Canterbury

7. Legal Budgets (Cheltenham): Legal Costs & Advocacy

8. Lyons Davidson Solicitors (Bristol): Legal Costs, Personal Injury & Advocacy

9. RAC Solicitors’ Practise (Bristol): Setting up Solicitors’ Firm for RAC Members

10. October 2004 – Present: Hutchinson (Legal) & Associates

11. National Association of Licensed Paralegals

12. Institute of Professional Will writers

15. A variety of personal services for you, your family and your employees

16. Initial free advice

17. No charge for incoming telephone calls

18. All work undertaken quickly and professionally

19. Pay as You Go / Retainer

20. Some of our Clients:

21. DBE from London whose claim is worth £39million

22. Local Memorial Woodland Cemetery

23. Large Bristol IT firm

25. Supply Of Goods And Services Act

26. Unfair Contract Terms Act

27. Unfair Terms In Consumer Contract Regulations

29. Where the buyer is a consumer, he / she has extra protection – 6 month rule: repair refund or rescind

30. s.12 – implied term as to title. As the seller, you must own the goods at the time property passes

31. s.13 – goods must correspond with the description with which they are sold

32. s.14 – implied term as to quality or fitness:

33. s.14 (2) – satisfactory quality

35. Complete work within a reasonable time and at a reasonable cost and with reasonable care and skill

37. Terms limiting liability are subject to test of unreasonableness

38. Terms limiting liability for death / personal injury are rendered ineffective

40. Generally enforced by the OFT

41. Is it fair? Does it cause a significant imbalance in the parties’ rights and obligations to the detriment of the consumer

42. Is the term written and explained in plain English – is the consumer put at a disadvantage because the term is not understood

44. Just because there is a change in the business, employees cannot simply be dismissed unless:

45. Economic reasons

46. Technical reasons

47. Organisational reasons

48. Penalty?

50. The accident was caused by me waving to the man I hit last week

51. The chap was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him

52. Going to work at 7am this morning I drove out of my drive straight into a bus. The bus was 5 minutes early