Richard Butler
Solicitor, Professor of Dispute Resolution, Chartered Arbitrator and Commercial Mediator
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These fees will apply for work planned to be carried out prior to 31 March 2010
| Lecture in London (up to 2 hours)* | £450 |
| Full-day course (up to 8 hours) | £1250 |
| Half-day course (up to 4 hours) | £700 |
| Preparation - day (to be discussed before incurred) | £700 |
* One or two lectures on the same day in a single location outside London generally correspond to a full-day course for charging purposes, depending on the journey time.
Travelling expenses and VAT are payable in addition
New Courses - If a course planned for delivery for the first time is cancelled I will be entitled to charge a cancellation fee. This will be the higher of (i) the fee for the work actually carried out at the agreed daily rate and (ii) the total fee indicated on this scale:
| More than 3 but less than 4 weeks notice | 10% of fee |
| More than 2 but less than 3 weeks notice | 25% of fee |
| More than 1 but less than 2 weeks notice | 50% of fee |
| Less than 1 week notice | 75% of fee |
New Lectures and Repeat Courses - For any lecture prepared at your request or for any course of 4 hours or more which is a repeat, I will be entitled to charge a cancellation fee of one-half of the above scale fees.
Repeat Lectures - No cancellation charge so long as cancellation takes place before I have started travelling to the venue. Otherwise, I will be entitled to charge a cancellation fee of one-half of the agreed fees plus travelling expenses.
If you are dissatisfied with any aspect of the service I provide, please contact me in the first instance. If we are unable to resolve the difficulty, I have a standing arrangement with another solicitor and legal skills teacher who will be willing to investigate your complaint should you wish to refer the matter to him. His details will be supplied in the letter of engagement.
Any confidential information about the firm and its affairs or its clients and their affairs which I may learn as a result of my delivery of courses and lectures for the firm will be kept confidential except to the extent that I have a legal obligation to disclose such information.
Consumables such as pads of paper for delegates, flip charts and the like will be arranged by the firm at its expense.
All copying, binding and distribution of delegates’ materials and copying and delivery to teaching room of course handouts will be arranged by the firm at its expense.
I retain the exclusive copyright in all materials produced by me except where we expressly agree otherwise in writing.
All course delivery is carried out by me unless we agree otherwise in advance. Where, at your request, I employ additional tutors, any fee rates quoted will be for each tutor.
Any e-learning media is supplied on my E-learning materials terms and conditions.
Hire of any teaching aids such as computer, projector, OHP, TV, cameras, DVD and video playback and any IT support which may be needed to make equipment work will be arranged by the firm at its expense.
I propose to revise my fee rates with effect from 1 April in each year. No higher fee will be charged without prior discussion.
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
I will deliver an invoice shortly after each course or lecture. These are payable within 28 days.
We each agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Materials and teaching will be in English.
No legal or other advice is given by me to you or to any other person in materials supplied, in lectures, in answer to questions or in any electronic media. None of these will necessarily provide information which is sufficiently precise or comprehensive for you to advise your clients in any specific transaction or case. I have no obligation to update any of these should the relevant law, procedure or practice change.
Teaching accommodation and any residential accommodation, meals, refreshments and the like will be arranged by the firm at its expense.
Travelling expenses (economy class air fare within Europe, business class outside Europe, standard class train fare into London, first class train fare on journeys other than to London) and, for overnight stays, reasonable accommodation and subsistence costs incurred by me will be reimbursed.
VAT is payable on all sums (including disbursements) payable in respect of courses delivered in the UK and, generally speaking, on preparation costs for courses and lectures even where they are delivered outside the UK. VAT may be payable in respect of delivery within other EC states at rates different to those which apply in the UK. The sums which I have quoted above are all exclusive of VAT.
