Contract Drafting: Eliminating Mistakes and Managing Risk 2017

Contract Drafting: Eliminating Mistakes and Managing Risk 2017 is a conference that covers topics such as:

• Latest Developments in Unfair Contracts
  • What is deemed unfair?
  • Small business and standard term contracts
  • How the Australian Consumer Law assists in protecting against unfair contract terms
  • Consequences of void terms in standard form contracts
  • Case studies and example clauses
• Contract Formation: Letters of Intent, Heads of Agreement and Memoranda of Understanding
  • Elements required for a binding contract
  • Preliminary agreements
  • Tips for effective preparation of preliminary agreements
  • Masters v Cameron and the classes of preliminary agreements
  • Presented by Steven Blanch, Partner, Henry Davis York
  • Practical real world drafting examples
  • Contractual mechanisms to transfer risk
  • Shifting Liability and Risks: Indemnities, Liabilities, Exclusion Clauses and Consequential Loss
  • Clarity in the operation of exclusion clauses
  • Limits on the application of indemnity provisions
  • Consistent messages from the courts for contract drafters
  • Consequential loss and why you might exclude it
  • Example clauses: what you want, and don`t want, in your contract
• What to do if, Despite all the Good Advice in this Seminar, the Contract Turns out to be Ambiguous?
  • Can the contract be rectified to eliminate the ambiguity? Principles and recent cases dealing with this useful equitable remedy
  • The vexed question of whether you can tender documents establishing the pre-contractual matrix of facts only if there is ambiguity. and in this context, is `ambiguity` itself ambiguous?