accepting contracts

[deckster]

just looking at the options

been on the bench since last june, interview (2nd) tomorrow and possible client decision tomorrow (year long contract in Europe)

been put forward for other options which pay more, though are shorter contracts with extension possibilities (and are in the uk). Don't have interviews as yet....

Ignoring the legal discussion - if you've been benched since June, and haven't even got interviews for these other roles yet, I think you'd be mad to turn down a job offer. The conversion rate from being put forward into interview is pretty low in the current market, and obviously interview into firm offer isn't exactly a given either.

Right now, a job in the hand is worth any number of CVs on client desks.

[jmo21]

In Scotland as soon as you verbally agree to buy, that agreement is binding and if you decide otherwise then the present owner can sue, or you can sue the owner if they decide to stay put.

hmmm.....didn't know that, and i have bought 3 properties in Scotland.

That being said they were all new builds from a developer, so maybe that's different?

In each case as far as I was aware, it was only binding once the missives have been signed.

[tim123]

I always thought that in England until a contract was signed, sealed and delivered, a verbal agreement cannot be enforced. Either side can still change their mind.

Someone's already used the illustration of a house. If you agree to buy a house, until the contract is signed, you are still free to walk away at anytime, as is the seller (they can decide to keep the house). That's the reason so many chains get broken. Someone agrees verbally that they will buy the house and then walk away for whatever reason. In Scotland as soon as you verbally agree to buy, that agreement is binding and if you decide otherwise then the present owner can sue, or you can sue the owner if they decide to stay put.

I've always assumed the same was true for business contracts. Granted it won't earn you any brownie points with the agent but until it's all signed and sealed then you have to think about yourself.
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Houses really ARE different.

A contract for a land transaction has to be written in the correct form and properly stamped.

All other contracts can be verbal, written on a fag packet etc.

tim

[TheFaQQer]

I always thought that in England until a contract was signed, sealed and delivered, a verbal agreement cannot be enforced. Either side can still change their mind.

No - the most common example is traders who wouldn't have time to get the paperwork etc. sorted before buying or selling shares. That set the precedent for a verbal contract to be valid.

Someone's already used the illustration of a house. If you agree to buy a house, until the contract is signed, you are still free to walk away at anytime, as is the seller (they can decide to keep the house). That's the reason so many chains get broken. Someone agrees verbally that they will buy the house and then walk away for whatever reason. In Scotland as soon as you verbally agree to buy, that agreement is binding and if you decide otherwise then the present owner can sue, or you can sue the owner if they decide to stay put.

Property law is a separate case, under English law. What you say is right, with regards to property law, but not for contract law.

[ratewhore]

I always accept "subject to contract" - like buying a house.

WHS

[norrahe]

Thanks for the advice guys, just back from sunny basingstoke from the interview and will hear summat by close of play today.

[pmeswani]

Thanks for the advice guys, just back from sunny basingstoke from the interview and will hear summat by close of play today.

Just out of curiousity... whereabouts in Basingstoke was the interview?

[norrahe]

Just out of curiousity... whereabouts in Basingstoke was the interview?

medical supplies co

[norrahe]

Ignoring the legal discussion - if you've been benched since June,

deliberately took time off (4 months) and have a nice rainy year fund

getting lots of calls re new work from my regular pimps

[pmeswani]

medical supplies co

Ok. Not what I really mean to ask... but fair enough. Just wondering if it was near the city centre or near one of their business parks. I use to live down in Basingstoke... nice area. I suspect the company is near Chinnhem (sp?) Business Park....