2008 – Will it be a Happy New Year?

Welcome to 2008. Almost all economic forecasts for the coming year are pretty grim, with oil and food prices set to rise, the credit crunch to continue and house prices falling. 

In the law, whenever the corporate boys run low on work, the litigators and insolvency practitioners start to get busy.  So if, as predicted, things get a lot tougher,  there is going to be more likelihood of business failures, bad debts and contract disputes.

Our advice is – at least make sure you have some decent contracts in place to protect you in the coming times:  a properly drafted contract does for business what a well-tiled roof does for a house.    ContractStore has a wide range of documents than can help to protect your business at a very small cost.  So stop by our website as you come back from the sale at B&Q!

 Enjoy 2008 – the worst may not happen and even if it does, as any real enterpreneur will tell you, there are always opportunities to be had – whether the economy is on the way up – or on the way down!

About Giles

Giles is the founder and managing director of ContractStore. It was his idea to set up a company selling documents online and he has played a major part in the company's development. He is an English solicitor, with over thirty years' experience of drafting and negotiating commercial and construction contracts in the UK and overseas. He has long been convinced that there is a quicker and simpler approach to the delivery and supply of most contracts, and he is an active proponent of the use of plain English in legal documents. He specialises in the drafting of construction and engineering contracts and as well as contributing contracts to the ContractStore website, he is co-author of the JCT Constructing Excellence Contract publiushed in 2007 (and its predecessor, the Be Collaborative Contract, which is available online from ContractStore).
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