Unlimited liability

[Wanderer]

Loska is abroad so depending on the country and client s/he can easily do a disappearing act and the UK agency gets f***ed over.

If Loska is a home owner then doing a runner isn't that easy. Even if the case was not winnable by the agency, they could bankrupt the worker on legal fees. I agree that's it's very unlikely to happen.

Hence if s/he got a lawyer involved the agent would know not to screw around, though some agents concede quickly to changes when you tell them your lawyer is going to look at it as they realise you may get the entire contract redrafted.

Yes, a lawyer would help but I'm too much of a tightarse to pay a lawyer to tell an agency that they have a monumentally stupid clause in their contract. I normally tell the agency that my lawyer has looked at it and wants these things changed. The fact that I don't actually have a lawyer is neither here nor there.