Draft Legal Templates

England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own legal system. Plenty of commercially relevant statute applies across all three, but contract law, property law and court procedure diverge. Scots law in particular is a separate tradition rather than a variation on English law.

Where this shows up is the governing law clause and the jurisdiction clause. A document drafted under the law of England and Wales, signed by a Scottish company, performed in Glasgow and silent on which law governs it has an argument built into it.

Naming it explicitly costs nothing at the drafting stage. Sorting it out afterwards is where the expense sits.

UK employment law separates employees, workers and the genuinely self-employed. Which category applies isn't settled by what the contract calls someone. It's settled by how the relationship actually works, and a tribunal will look past the label where the label doesn't match what's happening.

That's why an employment contract and a consultancy agreement aren't the same document with different titles. They describe different relationships carrying different rights. Holiday, notice, sick pay and protection from unfair dismissal all follow the category.

Choosing the right document matters. Getting the underlying arrangement right matters more, since calling something consultancy won't change how it's treated if it operates like employment.

British courts generally uphold well-drafted non-disclosure agreements, which makes them one of the more reliable protections available to a UK business for its intellectual property and commercial information.

The word doing the work there is well-drafted. What holds up is a clause defining confidential information with some precision, running for a sensible period, and protecting something the business genuinely needs to protect. What gets read down is a clause drafted so broadly it would capture information already in the public domain.

Restrictive covenants work on the same logic. The question is whether the restriction goes further than is reasonably necessary to protect a legitimate business interest.

UK rules on unfair contract terms restrict how far a party can exclude or limit its own liability. A limitation of liability clause isn't simply a matter of writing a low number and hoping it sticks.

The limits are tighter where the other party is a consumer, and some categories of liability can't be excluded at all. An overreaching clause tends not to fail gracefully either. It can be struck out entirely, which leaves the party who drafted it with no protection rather than the reduced protection they assumed they had.

This is the most common place a document drafted without reference to UK law behaves differently from how its author expected.

Under UK data protection law, including UK GDPR, a privacy policy is a legal requirement for any organisation handling personal data. It needs to exist before you start collecting, rather than appearing once somebody asks for it.

Much of the obligation is evidential. You need to be able to show what you collect, why, on what lawful basis, how long you keep it and who you share it with. A policy that's accurate on the first four and vague on the fifth is a common weakness and an avoidable one.

The data protection documents here are drafted against that expectation rather than as a general statement of intent.

Not every agreement carries the same risk. Treating them as though they do is what makes contracting slow and expensive at the same time.

Most commercial documents sit inside terms the business has already decided it's comfortable with. A few sit outside them. Being able to tell those apart quickly and consistently is what lets the standard ones move and the unusual ones get proper attention.

The saving isn't only time. It's the external legal spend that goes on agreements which never needed reviewing in the first place, and the deals that quietly stall while they wait their turn. Customers close 70% faster working this way.

Each template is a starting point GenieAI drafts around your situation rather than a static file you download and fill in by hand. You say who's involved and what the arrangement is, and you get a document carrying the clauses that agreement usually needs.

After that you're editing rather than writing. Change terms, see what a counterparty has altered in their mark-up, and ask the document questions directly when a clause is doing something you didn't expect.

The library runs to 588 document types across contracts, policies, letters, deeds, notices and forms, drafted to local governing law across 150+ jurisdictions.

The categories below are organised by what the document is. Agreements, policies, letters, notices, deeds, certificates and forms. If you already know what it's called, that's the quickest way in.

If you know the kind of work but not the name of the document, the practice area pages group the same library by legal specialism, which tends to be easier to navigate.