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Legal Business Contracts

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  • 09-11-2004 7:16pm
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    bigpaddy2004
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    Hello. I am planning on starting up my own business very shortly, i have nearly everything ready to go except legal contracts. you see i will have my customers whom will be providing me with a residual income. But I have to supply these people with equipment(lease) in order to gain profits. There will also be businesses whom will be housing equipment for me in order for me to span my network.
    My question is, for all these people & businesses I am going to need contracts for them to sign to abide by my t & c's. So, instead of going to a solicitor (whom I think looks after all that) could i not just use one of them online "build your own contract's" websites and download the document and photocopy it. But.....would that legal document stand in an Irish Court of Law. This is my only worry.

    TIA


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    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    bigpaddy2004 wrote:
    could i not just use one of them online "build your own contract's" websites
    What websites? I've never come across any such site that could handle the complexities inherent in your business model.


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    bigpaddy2004
    Registered Users Posts: 1,078 ✭✭✭bigpaddy2004


    Everything is out there on the internet...all you have to do is look :D

    I have come accross sites like these:
    http://www.envision-sbs.com/
    http://www.megadox.com/documents.php/4

    All I want to know is, if an irish solicitor did'nt write up the legal document, can it still be used in Ireland? Will these documents from the sites do in my business?


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    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    bigpaddy2004 wrote:
    Everything is out there on the internet...all you have to do is look :D

    I have come accross sites like these:
    http://www.envision-sbs.com/
    http://www.megadox.com/documents.php/4

    All I want to know is, if an irish solicitor did'nt write up the legal document, can it still be used in Ireland? Will these documents from the sites do in my business?
    They would do if they were written up correctly. I don't think that the documents in those two sites would really suit. They would have to comply with Irish contract law. US and Irish law differs so much. If you did your own without legal advice a person could find a fault with it and have the whole contract deemed invalid.

    I think it would be foolish to risk your livelyhood instead of investing a few hundred on specialist advice.

    Best of look with it Paddy.

    007


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    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    bigpaddy2004 wrote:
    All I want to know is, if an irish solicitor did'nt write up the legal document, can it still be used in Ireland?
    Can they be used? Yes. Should they be used? Probably not. Irish contract law, data privacy laws, copyright law and VAT regulations would all be so different that the documents would almost certainly be of little value, and even possibly dangerous to your business.


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