Thanks Mr Physio

Your point is valid and perhaps by asking numerous countries to comment on this issue we might highlight a a few areas that some might not have thought about.

I would be keen to offer a huge list of possible inclusions in an employee/contractor pack whereby the user can pick and choose their clauses depending on what might legally stick in their country. Legal frameworks, whether defensible in court or not, are often used as a strong deterant due to the potential slur on seomeones reputation and their cost of defending it.

So I am all for putting in as many useful clauses into a contract as is appropriate that highlight the nature of the agreement. This at worse could be used to justify any potentially slanderous comments made about a third party should it be needed in the future.

Perhaps some could start by pasting a contract wording into this forum and then we can all add to it, comment, mold etc it into something really useful.