For clinicians and researchers
Read this before you sign.
You can decline any assignment without giving a reason.
What we do.
We bring you the work, and we take the administration around it.
There is nothing for you to negotiate. The standard terms are published, and they are the same for every Expert we engage.
Your fee is set against a documented band for your tier, not haggled. It is collected from the Client before you begin, so the money is already with us when you start. Your own figures (fee, dates, scope) come to you in your Order, before you sign.
We screen the engagement before it reaches you: whether the need is documented, whether there is a conflict, whether the scope is inside the lines. You see the work after that, not before.
What the Client cannot do.
- It cannot see your name. Not until you consent, for that named Client.
- It cannot direct you. No Client may direct the content, emphasis or conclusions of a deliverable.
- It cannot pay you. We are the sole payer.
- It cannot reach you except through us. All communication about an assignment passes through Maison Milentis.
What you are paid, and when.
The money is collected from the Client before you are instructed.
Delivery, not content, is the condition of payment.
A stopped session is paid in full.
Honoraria are billed to the Client at cost. Maison Milentis takes no margin on them.
Our Expert Agreement, clauses 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.5(b) and 8.3 · Our Client Agreement, clauses 7.1(a) and 14.2
The terms are published before you sign.
We describe how the two agreements work in plain English, and publish the full text of the standard terms of each: every version, including the ones we have replaced. Your own Order and statement of work are yours: we issue them to you and we do not publish them.
We welcome questions. Write to Christine or Aris directly. Conversations are held in strict confidence.
How the agreements work → /structureWhat your agreement says, question by question → /protections/expertsThe full text →
For Experts
Expert Services Agreement v2c, published 19 August 2026. The full text governs, not this page. This page is not legal advice.
One note on terms. The agreement says Sponsor where this site says Client. Quotations keep the agreement's word.
And one on what is published. The standard terms are published in full, every version, and are the same for every Expert we engage. The particular values those terms refer to (your fee, your dates, the version your assignment runs on) are set in your Order, which we issue to you alone and do not publish. Where this page states a figure from the Order, that is the figure we use; you will see it in your own Order before you sign.
Fifteen questions.
Who you are dealing with
Am I contracting with the company whose work I will review?
No. You contract with Maison Milentis only. That company has no contract with you, no duty to you, and no right to enforce anything against you.
“The Expert contracts with the Company only, and the Company alone instructs and supervises each Assignment; no Sponsor may direct the Expert.”
“No person other than the parties, and no Sponsor, has any right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or otherwise to enforce the Agreement.”
Can they find out who I am?
Only if you say so, for that named Client, recorded in the statement of work. Consent is never implied and you may withhold it for any reason. Before that, they see a capability card and profile in a form that does not identify you and does not combine details from which your identity could be inferred.
“The Company will not disclose the Expert's name, or any information from which a Sponsor could identify the Expert, without the Expert's specific prior written consent to that disclosure, given for the named Sponsor and recorded in the Statement of Work. The Expert may give or withhold that consent in their absolute discretion.”
Your opinion
Can anyone tell me what to conclude?
No. You may be asked to correct an error of fact, omission or presentation. A request to change a conclusion has no effect.
“Nothing in this clause requires the Expert to alter an opinion, finding or conclusion, and a request to do so has no effect.”
“No Sponsor may direct the content, emphasis or conclusions of any Deliverable.”
What if my honest answer is the unwelcome one, or I cannot answer at all?
An adverse opinion, a qualified opinion, or a refusal to answer on recognised grounds costs you nothing: not the honorarium, not the agreement, not your standing with us. Your professional and legal obligations override this agreement wherever they conflict.
“The Expert may give honest, adverse or qualified opinions, may disagree with the Company or a Sponsor, and may decline to answer a question or to give an opinion… without affecting the Honorarium, the Agreement or the Expert's standing with the Company and without being treated as a failure to perform.”
“If such an obligation conflicts with the Agreement, the obligation prevails and compliance with it is not a breach.”
Can I turn down an assignment?
Any assignment, without giving reasons, without affecting your standing or any other assignment. You owe us no exclusivity, and we have no disciplinary power over you.
“the Expert may decline any proposed Assignment, without giving reasons and without affecting the Expert's standing with the Company or any other Assignment”
“the Company has no disciplinary or sanctioning power over the Expert, and the Company's only remedies are those the Agreement provides”
Money
What am I paid, and does it depend on what I conclude?
Your tier, the band for it, the rate and the hours cap are all in your statement of work. The rate is fixed before you start. Delivery, not content, is the condition of payment.
“It is fixed before work begins and is not contingent on any opinion, finding or conclusion the Expert reaches. It is payable on delivery of the Deliverables, subject to clause 5.4: delivery, not content, is the condition of payment.”
When am I paid, and what if you are late?
Your honorarium is collected from the Client before you begin, so the funds are already with us. Payment follows within the Payment Period, which we set at 14 days and state in your Order. Late payment carries automatic interest and a fixed EUR 40 recovery sum, and the law where you practise can only raise those. Our obligation to pay you is not limited by the liability cap, and you may sue for an unpaid honorarium in the courts where you are domiciled.
“The Company collects each Honorarium from the Sponsor before the Expert begins work… The Company's payment obligation is its own and is not conditional on any further receipt from the Sponsor.”
Our Expert Agreement, clauses 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 14.2(e) and 17.3 · the Payment Period is set in your Order
What if a session is stopped, or my reserved time is cancelled?
A session we stop on compliance grounds is paid in full. Reserved time cancelled by anyone other than you is paid at the rate.
“(a) for reserved time, at the FMV Rate, where a Session or other period reserved in a Statement of Work is cancelled other than by the Expert; and (b) the full amount payable for a Session, where the Company suspends or ends that Session under clause 8.3.”
What we ask of you
What am I screened for?
Identity, licence and credentials against primary registers; sanctions, exclusion and debarment lists; and the topics you tell us you may not discuss. No assignment is offered before screening clears, and screening repeats before each one.
“Admission is conditional on the satisfactory completion of Screening, and the Company will offer no Assignment before Screening has cleared.”
What must I disclose, and what am I attesting to?
Before each assignment, every interest a reasonable person would regard as capable of affecting your independence in it, and anything arising during it. Then a written attestation to the scope, that your participation serves it and no other purpose, that you have made those disclosures, that you have received nothing beyond the honorarium, and that the opinions are your own. We keep it, and may give it to the Client for that assignment and to a regulator.
“…that the Expert has received no payment or benefit for the Assignment other than the Honorarium and any expenses reimbursed under clause 7.8; and that the opinions the Expert gives are the Expert's own.”
What can I not discuss?
No confidential information of any employer, institution or other third party, and no inside information. No patient-identifiable data. No promotion, no off-label promotion, and no lending your name to promotional activity presented as independent advice. Topic exclusions in your statement of work bind both ways: we will not ask, and you will not answer, whoever asks. If a session approaches a line it is stopped, you are paid in full, and the stop is recorded.
Your name, your company, and afterwards
Does my name go on the deliverable?
Only to the extent you have consented in the statement of work, and the same applies to the Client keeping, reproducing or disclosing the deliverable beyond the assignment. We cannot grant a use we have not secured from you.
“…those uses take effect only to the extent the Expert has consented to them in the Statement of Work. The Company shall not grant a Sponsor a use it has not secured under this clause.”
If I contract through my own company, what am I personally liable for?
Every sum payable to us is payable by your company alone, and the two of you share a single liability cap. Non-monetary remedies against you personally remain. Your company is screened as well as you, and payment to it is still a transfer of value to you for transparency purposes.
“…every sum payable to the Company under or in connection with the Agreement is payable by the Expert Entity, and the Company shall look to the Expert Entity alone for it; and the Expert and the Expert Entity have a single aggregate liability under clauses 14.1 and 14.3…”
What happens to my profile and my data after we finish?
Our authority to share your capability card and profile ends on termination; the consent rules survive it. The Client's own agreement forbids it from adding you to any database or trying to work out who you are behind a reference code.
“A Sponsor receiving that information is an independent controller of it, and the Company's terms with each Sponsor require the Sponsor to use it only for the Assignment concerned, not to add it to any database, and not to attempt to identify the individual behind an Expert Reference.”
Our Expert Agreement, clauses 13.2 and 15.5(c) · Our Client Agreement, clause 12.2
Am I tied to you?
No. You owe us no exclusivity and remain free to practise, research, teach and take engagements from anyone. No clause stops you working with a Client on another matter. Communication about the assignment itself still goes through us.
“This clause does not restrict the Expert's dealings with any person on any other matter.”
The changelog
An Expert proposed a different approach. We adopted it.
In version 2a, an Expert contracting through their own company was still jointly and severally liable for everything. An Expert who read the agreement raised it. In version 2b, clause 3.4 was rewritten and clause 14.5 added: every sum payable to us is payable by the Expert's company alone, and the two share one liability cap. Non-monetary remedies against the Expert personally remain. The old version remains readable. The changelog records it.
Our Expert Agreement, version 2a, clause 3.4
"Where the Order names an Expert Entity: the Expert Entity contracts with the Company on these Standard Terms and is jointly and severally liable with the Expert for their performance; the Expert shall perform every Assignment personally, subject only to clause 3.2(e); the Expert Entity shall procure the Expert's compliance with the Agreement; every warranty and undertaking in the Agreement is given by the Expert personally and by the Expert Entity; the Expert Entity assigns, and shall procure the assignment of, the rights in clause 12; and each Honorarium is invoiced by and paid to the Expert Entity, and payment to the Expert Entity discharges the Company's obligation to pay the Expert." No clause 14.5.
Our Expert Agreement, version 2b, clause 3.4 and new clause 14.5
Clause 3.4: "Where the Order names an Expert Entity: the Expert and the Expert Entity are each a party to the Agreement and each contracts with the Company on these Standard Terms; the Expert shall perform every Assignment personally, subject only to clause 3.2(e); the Expert Entity shall procure the Expert's compliance with the Agreement; every warranty and undertaking in the Agreement is given by the Expert personally and by the Expert Entity; the Expert assigns, and the Expert Entity assigns and shall procure the assignment of, the rights in clause 12; each Honorarium is invoiced by and paid to the Expert Entity, and payment to the Expert Entity discharges the Company's obligation to pay the Expert; and clause 14.5 governs which of them is liable to pay any sum to the Company." Clause 14.5: "Where the Order names an Expert Entity: every sum payable to the Company under or in connection with the Agreement is payable by the Expert Entity, and the Company shall look to the Expert Entity alone for it; and the Expert and the Expert Entity have a single aggregate liability under clauses 14.1 and 14.3, so that the limits in those clauses apply to the two of them together. This clause 14.5 does not affect any right of the Company to injunctive relief, specific performance, suspension or termination against the Expert, and does not affect any right of the Expert under the Agreement."
Read version 2a →Read version 2b →The changelog →
The Client side has its own entry: a non-circumvention clause, removed after a prospective Client objected. /protections/clients · section 6 →