Contract Law: Minimising Liability and Risk
Issues covered include: Regulatory compliance, contractual conformity, insurance and indemnity clauses, common law, boilerplate clauses
Description
Liability issues remain one of the most important and constantly evolving areas for lawyers. Your clients seek the very best advice on how to ensure that risks are diverted or minimised to the point that they are non-existent, so you have the responsibility to keep up to date on the latest developments and strategies. Hear from our eminent panel of speakers on critical risk and compliance issues in contracts and leave with detailed written materials, precedents and examples.
Attend and earn 3 CPD hours in Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 5 September 2019
Chair: Suzy Madar, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
2.00pm to 2.45pm: Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring Contractual Conformity
This practical and informative session will provide a brief overview of recent legislative developments in several key areas such as Unfair Contracts, Modern Slavery and Chain of Responsibility, and then with the use of example clauses illustrate how to ensure regulatory compliance in your contracts.
Presented by Scott Alden, Partner and Nathan Cecil, Partner, Holding Redlich
2.45pm to 3.30pm: Perfecting Insurance and Indemnity Clauses in Commercial Contracts
- Allocating risk in commercial contracts
- Contractual devices to avoid or minimise liability
- Effective indemnity clauses
- Key insurance provisions
- Interaction between insurance and indemnities
Presented by Raymond Giblett, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright
3.30pm to 3.45pm Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: When and how to Modify or Exclude the Operation of the Common Law by Contractual Terms
- Consequential loss: where parties agree to the damages
- Penalties: writing in a penalty by mistake
- Termination and restricting rights
- Restrictions on court intervention and ouster
Presented by David Jury, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts: Key Considerations and Practical Tips
- Waiver, variation and entire agreement clauses
- Problematic issues arising on these clauses
- How to draft them to get the best out of them and keep the contract within its four corners
Presented by Bridie Nolan, Barrister, 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers; Recommended Transport Junior Counsel Australia Doyle’s Guide 2019
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia
Directions
Nearby Public Transport:
Train Stations - Wynyard 400m OR Martin Place 500m
Bus Interchange - Clarence Street 450m
Ferry - Circular Quay 1.2km
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