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CIO AND THE LAW – or how to stay off the front page of the Evening Press!

05/11/2010 Posted in blog. Categories: Event. Tags: ashurst, Barb's Blog, best endeavours, BSkyB, CIO, contract terms, Court case, entire agreement, exclude liability, force majeure, fraud, HP Enterprise Services, Information technology, interest clauses, interest on unpaid bills, interest on unpaid invoices, interest rates on debts, IT Leader, judicial trend, late payment of commercial debts, law, legal issues, misrepresentation, notice by email, notice to supplier, notices, obligations, reasonable endeavours, stallard, third party rights, and whole agreement.

There was a time, in the good old days, when a CIO didn’t have to worry about contracts – boring things that the lawyers or the purchasing person takes care of. Not anymore. The implication of a failed contract can be a loss of reputation of all parties and perhaps an expensive, long winded and debilitating legal case, where all […]