1. FORMATION OF CONTRACT
"RAITHBY INVESTIGATIONS" ("The Company") will conduct business
solely upon the following terms and conditions, which:
(i) Can be varied only in writing
by the Proprietor of the Company; and
(ii) override and exclude any terms stipulated
or referred to by the customer in any communication or prior course of dealing with
the Company; and
(iii) supercede any prior representation, whether oral or written,
made to the customer by any employee or agent of the Company.
2. SERVICES
The company agrees to provide inter alia Agency and general services.
3 PRICE OF SERVICES
The price of the service provided to the customer by the Company
shall be based upon the Company's current price list.
4. PAYMENT
The Company shall invoice the customer for the current price of the service
forthwith upon completion of the service or at agreed stages. Subject to credit being
allowed to the Customer by the Company, invoice shall be payable on or before the
14th day after the invoice date.
5. DEFAULT IN PAYMENT
(i) In default of due payment of its invoice, the Company may
in its absolute discretion and irrespective of any other rights maintain an action
against the customer for the invoice sum upon which interest shall be payable at
the rate of 2% per calendar month or part thereof from the date of the invoice until
payment.
(ii) The customer shall indemnify the Company against any legal costs which
it may reasonably incur to recover its invoice sum.
6. CUSTOMERS OBLIGATIONS
(i) The customer hereby warrants that in relation to information
provided by the Company, the customer will not place reliance upon such information
in conducting its business and will not hold the Company responsible for any loss
or damage sustained as a result thereof.
(ii) The customer agrees to indemnify and
hold harmless the Company against all claims, proceedings, costs, losses and damage
which the Company may sustain or incur in connection with the service supplied to
the customer unless those claims result from the wilful misconduct of the Company.
7. LIABILITY
(i) The Company shall not be liable for loss and/or damages sustained
by the customer by reason of any cause whatsoever.
(ii) The Company shall not be
liable for loss and/or damage sustained by the customer and resulting from any inability
on the part of the Company to perform its obligations by reason of war, riot, explosion,
fire, flood, strike, lock-
(iii) The Company shall not be liable for loss and/or damage sustained by
the customer resulting from any acts, errors or omissions by the Company or its employees.
(iv) The Company shall not be liable for loss and/or damage sustained by the customer
resulting from any reliance placed upon information provided to the customer by the
Company.
8. CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS
The Company shall not be liable to the customer for any Consequential
Loss or damage irrespective of its cause.
9. SET-
The customer may not withold payment of any invoice or other amount due
to the Company by reason of any right of set-
10. MISCELLANEOUS
(i) Each of these terms and conditions is to be considered separately
and shall survive and apply even if one or more of the other terms and conditions
are held to be unreasonable or otherwise inapplicable.
(ii) Headings contained herein
are for reference purposes only and shall not be deemed to be an indication of the
meaning of the clauses to which they relate.
(iii) The customers obligations and/or
benefits hereunder shall not be assigned to a third party without the Company's prior
written consent.
(iv) The customer agrees to provide 48 hours notice of cancellation
of any booked time or services and to accept billing for services booked should such
notice not be given.
11. PROPER LAW
These terms and conditions shall be governed by English Law and any
dispute arising out of or in connection with the same shall be determined by the
English Courts.