| 1 | Administration: a quick guide A quick guide to the process of company administration under the Insolvency Act 1986. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | An overview of the UK anti-money laundering and counter ... A brief overview of the UK's anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 3 | Asset finance: overview An introduction to the types of structures used in asset financing and some of the key issues relevant to those structures. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 4 | Bribery Act 2010: toolkit A toolkit to assist with Bribery Act 2010 compliance. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 5 | Compulsory liquidation: a quick guide A quick guide to the process of compulsory liquidation or winding up of an insolvent company under the Insolvency Act 1986. It includes guidance for creditors, employees and directors of a company in compulsory liquidation. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 6 | Construction projects: the legal structure: a quick guide A quick guide to the legal aspects of a construction or engineering project, useful for first-time employers or users of construction services, who have not built a project before. The note covers a number of issues, including the parties to the contract, procurement, insurance and regulation. It also sets out some of things that can go wrong with a project, like defects or delayed completion. This is one of a series of quick guides, see Quick guides. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 7 | Creditors' voluntary liquidation: a quick guide A quick guide to the process of creditors' voluntary liquidation (CVL) of an insolvent company under the Insolvency Act 1986. It includes guidance for creditors, employees and directors of a company in CVL. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Guarantees and indemnities: a quick guide A quick guide to guarantees and indemnities, including their respective advantages, legal and drafting issues to bear in mind, and links to further materials. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 10 | Limitation periods: an overview An overview of limitation periods. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 11 | Privilege: an overview An outline of the law relating to privilege including legal advice privilege, litigation privilege, joint privilege and common interest privilege. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 12 | Contracts: assignment An outline of the ways in which contractual rights may be transferred to third parties by means of assignment, and the rule against assigning the burden, or obligations, of a contract. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 13 | Contracts: entire agreement clauses A note considering the use of entire agreement clauses to prevent statements or representations that are not set out in a written agreement from having contractual force. It also considers the use of such clauses to restrict liability for claims based on misrepresentation | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 14 | Contracts: formation A review of the legal concepts involved in the formation of binding contracts. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 15 | Contracts: novation An outline of the way in which contractual rights and obligations may be transferred to third parties by means of novation. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 16 | Execution of deeds and documents Overview of the key legal requirements relating to the execution of deeds and documents under the laws of England and Wales. It reflects the law on execution from 1 October 2009. For details of the law governing execution of deeds and documents before 1 October 2009, see Practice note, Execution of deeds and documents: pre-1 October 2009. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 17 | Governing law and jurisdiction clauses A practice note covering the reasons for including governing law and jurisdiction clauses with drafting guidance. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 18 | Joint, several and joint and several liability Where two or more persons are liable to another, they may be jointly liable, severally liable or jointly and severally liable. This note explains the concepts of joint, several, and joint and several liability. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 19 | Notice clauses Guidance on a boilerplate clause that specifies how notices should be given and where they should be served, and which sets out when they are deemed to be received. The note also covers statutory provisions dealing with the service of notices and refers to rules for service of documents in relation to court proceedings. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 20 | Trusts in commercial transactions The trust is widely admired and recognised in many jurisdictions around the world. Although primarily used by individuals, they also have a wide variety of applications in a commercial context. This practice note provides an introduction to trusts and trustees and considers some commercial applications of trusts. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 21 | UK money laundering and terrorist financing offences in ... An overview of the money laundering and terrorist financing offences set out in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and the Terrorism Act 2000 (TACT) respectively. POCA and TACT form part of the UK's anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) regime. | Practice notes | Maintained |