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Why You Should Attend This Course:
Managers, company directors, executives and businessmen need to clearly understand contract law. Learn how to interpret the contractual clauses and what the terms and conditions actually mean. Now it is even more important to understand how contracts can be made electronically through the email and the world wide web over the internet. Participants will learn how to make a valid contract – oral or written. Learn how a contract may be discharged by novation, by performance and frustration and how to terminate a contract and know the remedies available for breach of contract, including liquidated damages and penalty clauses, specific performance and injunctions.
Get a thorough understanding of the principles of contract law through this course taught by a well-known author of 31 law books, including the best-seller book "Contract Law". Rules on contract drafting will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the terms and clauses frequently used in the drafting of contracts and agreements, including boiler plate clauses, e.g. entire agreement clauses etc.
Video training materials will be used to enhance learning. Course materials will be given which are useful and invaluable references. Case studies and case presentations will be discussed. You will learn how to conduct your businesses effectively within the laws of business and companies.
Course Outline:
Roles and responsibilities of a contract manager
- Relationship building
- Setting targets, timelines and periodic review
Understanding Contractual Materials and Terms
- The Suisse Atlantique case
- Implication by custom
- Implication by fact
- Implication by law
- From literal to contextual interpretation
- Inadmissible evidence
- Contra proferentum rule
- Exceptions of negligence liability under the Unfair Contract Terms Act
- The enforcement mechanism under Statutory restrictions
Construction of the Contract
Vitiating Factors in a Contract
- Non est factum
- Fundamental mistake about contractual document
- Identifying representations from terms of contract
- Identifying actionable statements and omissions
- Silence (non-disclosure) to constitute misrepresentation
- The three types of fraudulent, negligent and innocent misrepresentation
- Consequences of misrepresentation
- Remedies available
- What is rescission?
- Damages under Misrepresentation Act
- Restitution, indemnity and damages at Common Law
- Illegitimate pressure
- Voidable contracts
- Voidable contracts
- Presumption
- Void contracts at common law
- Contract in restraint of trades
- Illegal contracts
Managing Contract Performance
Essential Negotiation Skills
Enforceability – Is the contract enforceable?
- Invitation to treat e.g. auction and tenders
- Electronic formation of contract e.g. e-offer or e-acceptance
- Consideration
- The requirement of a benefit/detriment in a contract
- Rules of consideration in drafting innovative contracts
Enforcement methods
Termination of Contracts
- By performance
- By agreement
- By frustration
- By repudiatory breach
- Self-induced frustration
Remedies for the Breach of Contract
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Prof Catherine Tay Swee Kian is an Associate Professorial Fellow lecturing law at the National University of Singapore, Department of Strategy and Policy (NUS Business School). She is also an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, author of several law books and the Associate Director of Bernard & Rada Law Corp.
Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Master of Laws, in which she specialised in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance Laws. She did her pupillage under the Honourable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson.
Prof Tay was on the Board of Overseas Editors for the (United Kingdom) Journal of Financial Crime, an official publication of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She has presented papers at many conferences and seminars on Business Law, Medical Law, Company and Insolvency Laws both overseas and in Singapore. Prof Tay is an examiner on law subjects for a number of professional bodies in Singapore and overseas. She conducts in-house seminars for hospitals, banks, statutory boards, hotels, commercial firms and companies, clubs and associations
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