Drafting Skills · glossary
A table of each change in the other side’s mark-up, with your view, your reason and who decides it. Hennacott’s list stayed inside the firm. Kestrow saw only the next version and its covering email. Issues List, heading · Chapter 9 · see Comparison, Mark-up
Explained in Chapter 9, How to Review a Contract Mark-Up and Issues List, of Drafting Skills.
Kestrow’s mark-up is version 3: your version 2 with its solicitors’ changes. Your job is to find every change, marked or not, and answer each one. A small change to one word can move risk across the whole contract. So you set out every change in an issues list: a table of each change, your view of it and who decides it.Read Chapter 9, How to Review a Contract Mark-Up and Issues List →
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