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Agent involved in production
Agent is also distributor
Agent's rights
Agent's rights on termination
Agent/distributor handling competing wine
Agent/distributor selling outside his territory or sector
AIDV 2011 – 26th Annual Conference Logrono, La Rioja
Andrew Park – recently published articles
Applicable law
Appointing a distributor
Appointing a UK agent or distributor
Brands
Certification and collective trade marks
Change in control
Choice of law – agency and distribution agreements
Commercial agents
Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993
Commercial agents – entitlement to commission
Commission
Commission – when is it due?
Compensation for distributors
Compensation on termination
Compensation on termination of agency
Compensation on termination of agency – assessment
Compensation on termination of agency – assessment – detailed principles
Compensation on termination of agency – assessment – what happens in practice
Compensation on termination of agency – calculation where agent entitled to indemnity
Compensation on termination of agency – further possible claims
Compensation on termination of agency – Lonsdale v Howard & Hallam Ltd
Competition from ex-agent or distributor
Competition law
Contract – agency and distribution agreements
Contract – can compliance be enforced?
Contract – can we be bound by a contract we never signed?
Contract – importer's perspective
Contract – leaving it too late
Contract – negotiation of agency or distribution agreement
Contract – notice of termination
Contract – producer's perspective
Contract – quality problems
Contract – reviewing existing contracts
Contract – should there be a written contract?
Contracts – supply agreements with major UK supermarkets – GSCOP protection for suppliers
Contracts – Wine Importer Contracts Package
Controlling distribution
Damages claims
Debt collection by agent
Defective products
Dispute resolution
Dispute resolution — pre-action procedure under the CPR
Distributor's rights
Distributor's rights on termination
Good faith
Goodwill
Goodwill compensation — making sure you keep the goodwill
Implied terms
Indemnity
Indemnity or compensation — what difference will it make?
Insolvency
Intellectual property
Investment by agent/distributor .... or by producer
Is an agent a 'commercial agent'?
Joint brand ventures
Jurisdiction
New wines — are they included in the contract or not?
Orderly termination
Packaging regulations
Payment – protecting yourself against late payment or non-payment
Poaching of agent/distributor's staff by producer .... and vice versa
Problems with agents or distributors
Producer acquires a new winery subject to different agency
Producer – time for a change of agent?
Producer dealing with customers himself or through another agent or distributor
Producer planning to terminate
Producer's rights
Regulatory matters
Repudiation
Resources for Importers
Resources for Producers
Restrictions between producers and agents or distributors
Restrictive covenants
Restrictive covenants – importer's employees
Restrictive covenants – producer's employees
Restrictive covenants – the value of
Retention of title
Retention of title and sub-sales
Set-off
Setting up a UK joint venture company
Setting up a UK subsidiary
Setting up UK distribution
Tax on compensation
Termination – producer's perspective
Termination of agency or distributorship
Terminology – agents, distributors, brokers and others
UK bulk bottling – the legal framework
UK market entry
Underperformance by agent or distributor
What Wine Importers need to protect themselves against

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