New job offer...now who creates the contract??

[Wanderer]

The PCG templates are very much about avoiding IR35 (which of course they don't by themselves), and to me didn't really fit the relationship I'd want to have with the client.

Eh? Were you looking for more of a disguised employee look to the contract then? Seriously though, I'm wondering what was it about them that "didn't fit the relationship"?

The PCG templates are much like most of the B2B contracts I've seen. Importantly, they make it clear that you are running a consultancy business rather than a permie-tractor and they address things like intellectual property rights etc. I don't think they are especially harsh, just businesslike.

[SueEllen]

Eh? Were you looking for more of a disguised employee look to the contract then? Seriously though, I'm wondering what was it about them that "didn't fit the relationship"?

Probably because the wording of properly written legal contracts looks scary to some people especially when you know the person before you agreed to do some work for the company they are associated with.

Personally having had contracts through people I know I prefer them to unambiguous and properly drafted.