Contract Law Fundamentals for Non-Lawyers: Melbourne 2014

Build confidence around legal terminology and contractual obligations to help protect your commercial interests, assist in contract development and avoid disputes. Better equip yourself to understand the legal advice you receive, interpret it correctly and generate true value for your business.

Key Learning Outcomes
Examine and address current topical issues in contract law
Review statutory and common law obligations that must be incorporated into contracts
Develop processes to ensure contract objectives are delivered while mitigating risk
Review a select sample of contracts clauses to identify responsibility and liability
Implement drafting changes that improve contract clarity and structure
Discover how various contract clauses achieve maximum risk management by analysing drafting and testing techniques
Understand and initiate a review of contractual governance in your organisation
Examine insurance arrangements and indemnities
Design effective methods of dispute resolution and documentation collection

About the Course

First in our contract law series and our CMP certification, this course is designed to address the foundations of contract law in the workplace. Commercial arrangements sealed with signatures or handshakes are part of daily life for most professionals, across all industries and sectors. They remain good business practice because theyre built on enforceable principles of contract law. Yet with vaguely expressed contracts, unclear offers or acceptance, or even with questions of consideration or undue influence, contractual disputes are still common place.

This course is an intensely practical two day course that will guide you through the essentials of contract law, exploring such details as when you need a contract, what types of contract exist and the effect of statutory law on your contractual arrangements.