Sentence examples for duties contract from inspiring English sources

So, as the new duties contract their share of the U.S. market, the Indonesian and Chinese paper producers have more product to sell in third-country markets.

Firms may form consortia to bid for each duty contract.

Mr Gove is also accused of forcing through an unwanted consolidation of solicitors' firms which can apply for "duty" contracts.

Under new rules the approved number of firms able to bid for duty contracts will fall from about 1,500 to just over 500.

Some leading barristers fear that because larger law firms have already bid for duty contracts, solicitors may not be prepared to see through sustained action against the Ministry of Justice.

On-call, duty contracts for criminal solicitors to attend police stations and courts will be slashed from 1,600 to 527 in England and Wales, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.

On Tuesday, two days before the election, criminal solicitors firms must submit tenders for a new round of duty contracts for covering police stations and magistrates courts.

The effect of Ministry of Justice cutbacks and reorganisation of duty contracts covering police stations and magistrates courts could, according to leaders of the profession, lead to two-thirds of criminal solicitors losing their jobs.

New duty contracts for solicitors to cover police stations and magistrates courts are due to come into effect in January 2016 and will change the rates paid for preparing a range of casework.

At present, there are about 1,600 duty contracts but the number is due to fall to 525 under the new scheme overseen by a government quango, the Legal Aid Agency (LAA).

The two-tier system will mean some solicitor firms are given duty contracts to cover new cases while others will be forced to rely only on clients who refer themselves – a system most lawyers fear will be unsustainable.