Who'd be a lawyer!

[londonwolf]

Gah!

I'm going through a contract for a job I will be acting as resident engineer on and it's just so full of stuff that you can't get your head around it's not funny! I'm an engineer - I like plain English!

Here's an example of one of the clauses:

Subject to clauses 6.1A and 6.1B, if the constractor carries out additional works or incurs

Comments

Time is of the Essence.

[megadog]

*grin*. Contracts-lawyer types are known to be utterly anally-retentive about their use of words. But some of us can be even more anal: I once helped a client to break a half-million-pound contract because there was an inappropriately placed comma.

[yingguoren]

The lawyer, heretofore refered to as Satan's Minion, shall, as outlined in clause 8.9(a), go jump of the Empire State Building onto a bicycle with no seat. The bicycle must comply with standard suicide-by-bike regulations as stated in clause 5.3(b). The client takes no responsbility for any injuries Satan's Minion may sustain, and will not be held legally liable or subject to any litigation regarding matters arising from their impalement.

I'm sure lawyers are lovely people really, but there's a reason I decided not to study law at university at the last minute :p

[sci]

Good grief. o_O;

On a related note, do you know anyone who might be interested in nearly 25 years worth of issues of "The Structural Engineer"? 1967-1990.

[londonwolf]

It's a typo from me typing too fast, pedant :P

[smeghead2044]

I sometimes wonder how they can legally get away with this.