Contract Law Masterclass: Liability & Risk
Recent events have had a dramatic impact on contracts leading to a significant rise in disputes. With many parties suddenly unable or unwilling to perform their contractual duties, there’s no better time to explore the hottest drafting and disputes issues you need to be across. Examine breaches, damages, remedies, securities, indemnities, liability, allocation of risk and more. Each of these issues will be covered in-depth along with a look at the latest and most significant contract law cases.
Description
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
2 units in Substantive Law
2 units in Professional Skills
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Featuring a renowned specialist in the field, Jeffrey Goldberger will walk you through precisely what you need to know. From taking a deep dive into the hottest issues and cases impacting contract law to working through real world examples to providing you with precedents, examples, case law and analysis, you’ll walk away with insights and tools to implement in your practice.
Part 1: Contract Law in the Cases: A Review of Recent Decisions
- Construction and interpretation: latest developments
- Assessment of damages for loss of use
- Performance securities
- Breaches capable of remedy in a termination regime
Part 2: Revisiting the Vocabulary of Contract Law
- Representations and misrepresentations
- Warranties, conditions and indemnities
- Fundamental breach of contract
- Deeds and simple contracts
- Contract variations
- Entire agreement clauses
Part 3: Statutory Proportionate Liability and Reallocation of Contractual Risk
- The philosophy of the legislation
- Concurrent wrongdoers
- Limitation of liability of a concurrent wrongdoer
Presented by Jeffrey Goldberger, Special Counsel, Norton Rose Fulbright
Presenters
Jeffrey Goldberger is contract law specialist with over 25 years' experience in the Australian legal sector who is a recognised authority on Australian contract law. In 2012 Jeffrey served on the then Federal Attorney General's Expert Panel on the effectiveness of Australian contract law. Jeffrey formerly lectured in contract law, commercial law and private international law at the University of Sydney Law School.
Testimonials
”Very polished performer/instructor who makes a very technical subject matter so much easier to understand. Excellent. Please keep this one as an annual presentation.”
“Absolutely flawless. An expert in his field.”
“Very comprehensive and clear paper; more than academic, can see the application.”