Paul,
Sounds about right. It still amazes me how much weight a couple of lines in a contract can have when it comes down to it. Having spent £300 an hour on a solicitor to win back a domain that was stolen from me (by a guy in Canada funnily enough), it came down to one sentence in an email sent to me, that formed a legally binding agreement and helped me get the domain back.
Conversely, *another* case I was involved in last year saw a software company get away with a few thousand I had given them for software development. They hadn't come up with the goods and had screwed me over, but I'd have had a difficult time getting the money back, because of a few lines in the small print. But who bothers to read that? I do now.
Regards
Jason
Sounds about right. It still amazes me how much weight a couple of lines in a contract can have when it comes down to it. Having spent £300 an hour on a solicitor to win back a domain that was stolen from me (by a guy in Canada funnily enough), it came down to one sentence in an email sent to me, that formed a legally binding agreement and helped me get the domain back.
Conversely, *another* case I was involved in last year saw a software company get away with a few thousand I had given them for software development. They hadn't come up with the goods and had screwed me over, but I'd have had a difficult time getting the money back, because of a few lines in the small print. But who bothers to read that? I do now.
Regards
Jason