Suppose you were a contractor, a consultant, or something similar (which I will now call C for convenience) - that is to say you did stuff for a company and furthermore you did it for only one company at a time.
Suppose the company you’d been a C for, let’s call it P got taken over by another company, let’s call it Q and it was a complicated take over. Most relevantly, Q sold off some of P’s stuff so you turned out to be working for R who bought said bits from P.
While this was going on, a service you needed to do your work which originally billed P [and subsequently got moved to Q] that you knew had an 18 month minimum contract but had no idea it had a 12 month rolling notice period is getting confued, and obviously Q is wanting you to do somwthing about this. Equally, P are very reluctant to take it on. And you yourself have been looking into cheaper alternatives for what said service does and have no desire into getting into any contract at all, especially one you had no idea of, never mind a twelve month one.
You had a brainwave to take the contract on as an individual knowing you could just cancel it within a week under distant selling obligations, but they were one step ahead of you and refused it.
What would you do in this situation? Bear in mind you never signed anything and never saw any contract at all - it’s not your total negligence that stopped you realising the rolling nature of this stuff, you thought it was a 3 month thing at most due to that being the industry practice.
For more information about this “hypothetical” situation please ask for details, I think I covered the basics but maybe not.