Athena Markides

Athena joined Chambers in October 2014 following successful completion of her pupillage. She is developing a broad practice and accepts instructions in all areas of Chambers' work. During her pupillage Athena gained experience of complex and high value claims across Chambers' core areas of practice, including construction, professional negligence, contractual disputes, and personal injury law. She is now regularly instructed to provide advice and representation in these areas and has appeared in county courts for trials and interlocutory hearings. In the year prior to her pupillage, Athena was employed as a Legal Analyst by a start-up providing online invoice discounting services. This has given her valuable experience with complex financial products and facilities, with collections operations and with risk identification and management. Working with institutional investors and with SMEs has honed Athena's commercial awareness and in particular, her understanding of the needs of corporate clients and how best to deliver for them. Between 2011 and 2012, Athena was a paralegal at the Office of Communications ("Ofcom"). She undertook a wide variety of work including advising upon competition, procurement and public law issues and drafting documents for the Leveson Inquiry. She worked with people at all levels of seniority and across Ofcom's departments, and continues to enjoy working as part of a team as well as individually.

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Contracts for the sale and supply of goods—business to business

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides an overview of the law and practice relating to contracts for the sale and supply of goods. It reviews the key legislative provisions of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 and the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, and also considers how the Bribery Act 2010, Modern Slavery Act 2015, Criminal Finances Act 2017 and Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 impact considerations when contracting for the sale and supply of goods. The Practice Note also considers the use of standard terms and conditions versus bespoke agreements when documenting supply of goods transactions, and the key terms in contracts for the supply of goods, including provisions to address the legislation referred to above and also the specification of goods, price and payment, delivery, acceptance, title and risk, retention of title, most favoured customer/supplier provisions, warranties and limitation of liability clauses. The Practice Note considers business to business (B2B) supply of goods contracts only.

Commercial

Contracts for the supply of services—business to business

Practice notes

This Practice Note provides an overview of the law and practice relating to contracts for the supply of services. It reviews the key legislation of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 and the Provision of Services Regulations 2009, as well as the Equality Act 2010, the Criminal Finances Act 2017, the Bribery Act 2010, the Modern Slavery Act 2015, Regulation (EU) 2018/302, the EU Geo-blocking Regulation, and data protection, employment laws and statutory controls on ipso facto clauses to the extent that they impact the supply of services. The Practice Note considers the use of standard terms and conditions versus bespoke agreements for use in documenting supply of services transactions, and it also considers the key terms of supply of services contracts addressing such issues as the specification of services, price and payment, performance, acceptance, most favoured customer/supplier provisions, warranties and limitation of liability clauses. The Practice Note considers business-to-business contracts for the supply of services only. The supply of services to consumers is significantly regulated and is not covered by this Practice Note.

Commercial