Contract - Tied in for 6 months - IR35?

[Vito]

Different scenario. In that case you would be stupid not to have negotiated penalties for consequential losses caused by the client's early withdrawal from the contract. (In fact you'll probably find something along those lines in the contract from you to the client but not the other way round.)

You are perfectly at liberty to try for such a clause in your contract, of course, if you can get away with it. But don't call it a notice period, because that's not what it is.

That was my point earlier and is all down to wording...I have an early termination penalty clause in my current contract which i insisted on...which is 25% of the remaining contract value from the date of termination. As you say, this is not a notice period as there is no requirement to work for this 25%...

Apologies if my earlier wording was not clear...