Contract Law Conference
Issues covered include: Conveyancing Case Law, Legislation and REIQ Contract Update, Real Estate Deposits, Environment and Planning Update, How to Deal with Changing Circumstances for a Party Between Contracting and Settlement, Dealing with SMSFs in Property Transactions, Avoiding Mistakes at Settlement, Verification of Identity, Property Valuation, Advisory, Development and Financing"
Description
Don’t miss this year’s Contract Law Conference. Enjoy the morning’s contract update with a focus on disputes, the latest on enforcing unsigned contracts, statutory intervention on contracts, termination and damages. Finish that with the all-important CPD core units session tailored specifically for the contracts specialist, including practical examinations of ethics, drafting skills, indemnities, liabilities, exclusion clauses, consequential loss and practice management.
Attend the full day and earn 7 CPD points including:
4 units in Legal Knowledge
1 unit in Professional Skills
1 unit in Practical Legal Ethics
1 unit in Practice Management & Business Skills
Session 1
Contract Law Update
Chair: Greg Richards, Partner, Mills Oakley; Best Lawyers 2019, Construction/ Infrastructure Law; Recommended Construction & Infrastructure Litigation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2019; Recommended Lawyer, Construction Law, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
9.00am to 9.05am: Opening Comments by the Chair
9.05am to 9.50am: Tricks to Effectively Communicating ‘Black Letter Law’ in a User Friendly Way
- Combining legal risk with practicality: providing ‘black letter law’ in the guise of practical solutions
- How to ensure your advice is not overly formal and legalistic
- Commerciality of advice: First question to ask - Is it applicable and practicable?
Presented by Julie Miehe, Consulting Principal, Keypoint Law
9.50am to 10.35am: Statutory Intervention in Contract Law: Unfair Terms and Unconscionable Conduct
- Introduction to statutory intervention and comparison with general law
- When a term will be regarded as ‘unfair’ under the ACL
- What is the ACCC’s enforcement approach?
- The factors that influence a determination of unconscionable conduct under the ACL
- The available remedies
Presented by Dr Stephen Lee, Barrister, 35 West Chambers
10.35am to 10.50am: Morning Tea
10.50am to 11.35am: Contract Disputes and Dispute Resolution Clauses: Alternatives to Managing the Dispute and Choosing the Appropriate Forum to Manage the Dispute
- How to choose the appropriate dispute resolution method
- Arbitration (domestic and international)
- Expert determination
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Litigation
- Arbitration clauses, the effect and enforceability of these clauses
- Are there limitations on the subject matter of arbitral disputes?
- Practical issues that arise with implementing your ADR clauses
Presented by Kiri Parr, Director, Kiri Parr Pty Ltd
11.35am to 12.20pm: Damages for Expectation Loss and/or Reliance Loss
- Expectation loss or reliance loss?
- Calculating future economic loss: Where do you draw the line?
- What categories of loss are recoverable, or are not recoverable?
- Recent case studies regarding damages
Presented by Anand Shah, Barrister, Carbolic Chambers
12.20pm to 1.05pm: Terminating Contracts
- What are the differences between express rights and a general right?
- How do you give effective notice?
- What if the termination is not justified?
- Losing the right to terminate: the importance of election and delay
- What are the consequences of termination?
- Some practical tips for effective exercise of termination rights
Presented by Sally Armitage, Barrister, Level 17 Inns of Court; Recommended Construction & Infrastructure Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2019
1.05pm to 1.15pm: Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Session 2
CPD Mandatory Core Areas
Professional Skills
2.00pm to 3.00pm: How to Minimise the Risks in your Drafting of Indemnities, Liabilities, Exclusion Clauses and Consequential Loss
- Construction of commercial contracts
- Indemnity and insurances clauses
- ‘Other insurance’ clauses
- Entire agreement clauses
- No representation clauses
- Disclaimer clauses
- Clauses which seek to curtail consequential loss
Presented by Brett Heath, In-House Advocate, Carter Newell Lawyers; Best Lawyers 2020, Alternative Dispute Resolution
Practical Legal Ethics
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Practical Legal Ethics in Contracts: From Negotiation through to Management
- Ethical considerations in contract drafting, tendering and negotiation
- Communications with other parties
- Issues in operational phases
- Legal ethics in contractual disputes
- Interface of legal ethics and contracting parties' obligations
- Consideration for cross-jurisdictional projects
Presented by Colin Harris, Partner, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management & Business Skills
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Reviewing Your Form Contract Precedents
Consider the questions that you should be asking yourself when considering a review of your form precedents that are used for your clients and discuss possible red flag clauses and questions you should be considering during the review.
Presented by Robin Lonergan, Special Counsel, Corporate Advisory, Mills Oakley
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia
Parking Information
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Directions
Nearby Public Transport:Train Stations - Roma Street StationBus Interchange - George Square Bus Station