Contract for services - termination

Yakuza

Hi folks, this is a general enough enquiry, I hope!

In an document for a contsultancy service agreement (a "contact for services" type arrangement), there is a section on Termination. This has several clauses, the gist of one being that either party can terminate the contract in the event of several things happening (bancruptcy etc). There is another which states the Company can for "any or no" reason terminate it with 30 days' notice. All fair enough so far.

However, there is no specifc clause that allows the provider of the service to also terminate the contract with 30 days' notice (the counterpart to the previous one, as it were). Is there a statutory right to do so (so it wouldn't need to be explicitly in the contract), or is the provider tied to the length of the contract, at the Company's whim?

jblack

Yakuza wrote: »

Hi folks, this is a general enough enquiry, I hope!

In an document for a contsultancy service agreement (a "contact for services" type arrangement), there is a section on Termination. This has several clauses, the gist of one being that either party can terminate the contract in the event of several things happening (bancruptcy etc). There is another which states the Company can for "any or no" reason terminate it with 30 days' notice. All fair enough so far.

However, there is no specifc clause that allows the provider of the service to also terminate the contract with 30 days' notice (the counterpart to the previous one, as it were). Is there a statutory right to do so (so it wouldn't need to be explicitly in the contract), or is the provider tied to the length of the contract, at the Company's whim?

Nothing wrong with a unilateral right to terminate.

Laissez faire and pacta sunt servanda

Procrastastudy

Cant give legal advice but at a practical level; have you asked the company concerned what notice they want?