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Start with your name and email. You can add a short description and any contract details you know. We quote a fixed fee within one business day.
Advice before signature costs a fraction of advice after
Part of why a review is worth more than it costs is section 10(1) of the Contract Law, Cap. 149. A contract may be made in writing, or orally, or partly in each, or inferred from the conduct of the parties. So the document in front of you is rarely the whole agreement: what was said in the meeting and written in the messages can form part of it, and a clause that contradicts them is the thing that has to be caught before signature rather than argued about after. Section 10(2) preserves the statutes that do require writing, which is why a contract of sale of immovable property is treated differently.
Most contract disputes we litigate were signed into existence: a term nobody read, a right nobody secured, an exit nobody priced. By the time the dispute exists, the answer costs a multiple of what a review would have cost, and the options have narrowed to the ones the document allows.
This is a one-off, fixed-fee review of the contract in front of you, before you sign it. It is built for tenancy agreements, employment offers, service and works agreements, confidentiality undertakings, one-off distribution or franchise terms, and loans between private parties.
You are not asked to know what to worry about. That is the point of the review.
What you receive
Written comments
A partner reads the contract and you receive, in writing: the terms that actually bind you and what they cost you if things go wrong, the protections that are missing and should be asked for, the specific amendments to request in words you can forward, and a plain answer to the question you came with. Where something is fine, it says so, so you know what not to fight over.
The timeframe for the review itself is agreed when the fee is quoted. For a contract of ordinary length it is usually two business days. Where the contract is for a property still being built, what a review looks for is set out on buying off plan in Cyprus.
Fixed fee quoted within one business day of your details. No work starts before you approve it.
Scope of the review
When you need more than a contract review
For a property purchase or sale agreement, you can request a contract review here. A review of the wording does not replace the title searches and wider checks needed for a purchase or sale. For that work, see property purchases and sales. An auction or tender legal pack has its own review with a Land Registry search included, under the legal pack review.
If the contract is already signed and the other side has not paid, the step is a letter before action, not a review. And where a business wants its contracts drafted and maintained rather than one document checked once, that is the ongoing work described under commercial contracts.
Common questions
If it is a property contract, what should already be attached?
A search certificate. Section 4(1A) of Law 81(I)/2011 requires the seller to include one as an integral part of the contract, dated no more than five working days before the date of signature, and section 4(1B) allows an administrative fine of up to EUR 10,000 where they do not. If the draft in front of you has no current search certificate with it, that is the first thing the review will say.
Will the review tell me about deadlines?
Where the contract carries statutory ones, yes. On a purchase of immovable property the deadline that matters most is in section 3(1)(c) of Law 81(I)/2011: six months from signature to lodge the contract at the Land Registry, because section 5(1) makes lodging a charge over the property taking priority from the date it is lodged.
What exactly do I receive?
Written comments from a partner: the terms that bind you and their consequences, the protections that are missing, the amendments to ask for in words you can forward, and a plain answer to your own question. A call to walk through it is included where it helps.
How fast is it?
The fixed fee comes back within one business day of your details. The review itself is delivered in the timeframe agreed with the quote, usually two business days for a contract of ordinary length.
Will you negotiate or redraft it for me?
The review is the fixed-fee product. If you then want the firm to negotiate with the other side or redraft the document, that is quoted separately before any work, so nothing appears on a fee note you have not agreed.
Is what I send confidential?
Yes. The enquiry goes to the office and nowhere else: no third-party form service holds it and nothing is stored beyond the email itself. An enquiry is confidential whether or not the firm is engaged.
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