About Smokeball

Smokeball provides legal professionals with up-to-date online resources including Step-by-Step Guides and Precedents, legal forms, and other legal publications.

Smokeball publications provide practical commercial guidance, and with no minimum subscription periods you will pay less for the publications and precedents you require.

The Name?

If it’s familiar but you can’t quite place it, the name is derived from the famous case of Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1893] 1 QB 256

The facts of that case were these:

The defendants, who were proprietors of a medical preparation called "The Carbolic Smokeball", issued an advertisement in which they offered to pay £100 to any person who succumbed to influenza after having used one of their smokeballs in a specified manner and for a specified period. They added that they had deposited a sum of £1,000 with their bankers "to show their sincerity". The plaintiff, on the faith of the advertisement, bought and used the ball as prescribed, but caught influenza. She sued (successfully) for the £100.

Named after this landmark case, one of the first cases law students learn, Smokeball continues development for legal professionals by providing precedents, practice guides, legal forms, commentaries and research tools.

How can I become an author?

Smokeball is very interested in working with potential new authors. To set up a meeting please contact Natalie Thompson on 1300 292 602.

As a publisher, Smokeball is able to offer authors with marketing assistance, sales channels and a new recurring revenue stream.

With the ability to publish and update your legal publications online, we can provide our subscribers with the highest quality and most up-to-date legal information available.

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