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Avoiding the Most Commonly Litigated Areas in Commercial Contracts

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Why You Should Attend This Seminar

This seminar aims to provide contract and commercial lawyers with practical advice on how to tackle the most common and difficult tricky problems that arise in relation to commercial contracts.

Main points covered:

• The legal risks audit: tools for risk assessment
• Drafting to avoid litigation: recognising the dangers of inappropriate boilerplate or "standard term" provisions
• Useful statements
• Battle of the forms: the current view on incorporation
• The pitfalls of undertaking work in anticipation of a contract
• Unread but signed written terms failing to reflect pre-contractual discussions: who wins?
• Evidencing the existence of oral contracts
• Failure to agree key terms: when could there be a binding contract?
• Entire agreement clauses: pushing them to their limits
• Excluding liability for misrepresentation: non-reliance clauses
• Liquidated damages and penalty clauses revisited
• Time of performance, frustration and force majeure
• "Best" or "reasonable" endeavours and clauses of obligation
• Breach and affirmation: the practicalities
• Material breach: termination rights and pitfalls
• Exclusion clauses and limitations of liability
• Guarantees, warranties and indemnities
• Contractual damages update: consequential loss, indirect loss and loss of profits
• Breach of confidence, loss of profits, causation and remoteness
• Notices and errors in service
• ADR, mediation and arbitration

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SPEAKER(S) BIOGRAPHY

Speaker: Stephen A Broomhall, BA (Hons) ACIArb, solicitor. Stephen is a partner and a Chartered Arbitrator with 30 years practical experience in company, contract and commercial work, both contentious and non-contentious. He is a highly experienced speaker on the UK practitioner circuit and delivers comprehensive technical expertise combined with exemplary presentation skills. Stephen is renowned for his practical, pragmatic and humorous delivery and presents for an extensive range of organisations.

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COURSE ACCREDITATION

This seminar has been approved for 6 CPD hours by The Solicitors Regulation Authority (REF: CVX/MBLS)
This seminar has been approved for 6 CPD hours by The Institute of Legal Executives (REF: CVXMBL)
This seminar has been approved for 6 CPD hours by The Institute of Paralegals

IN-HOUSE TRAINING

All our courses are available on an in-house basis. To discuss your requirements, please call us on 0161 793 0984, email inhouse@mblseminars.co.uk or fax us on 0161 728 8139.

BOOKING INFORMATION

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Alternatively you can write to:

MBL Seminars Limited, Denning House, 1 Hazelhurst Road, Worsley, Manchester, England, M28 2SX

Accredited for CPD purposes by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board, the Institute of Paralegals, the Institute of Legal Executives, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, the Institute of Professional Willwriters and the Pensions Management Institute.

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