Unfair Contract Terms in Leases: What Property Lawyers Need to Know

Wednesday, 19 March 2025
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Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is based on VIC legislation

Chair

Cameron CharnleyBarrister, Svenson Barristers

Navigating Unfair Contract Terms in Leases

 

  • Overview of the unfair contract terms regime and recent changes
  • Application to retail and commercial leases
  • Recent cases 

Presented by Tom Egan, Barrister, Greens List 

Presenters


Cameron Charnley, Barrister, Svenson Barristers
Cameron practises in a broad range of corporate and commercial law, including contract law, insolvency, real property, consumer law, equity and trusts, and wills and probate. He accepts briefs to advise and to appear in all Victorian and federal jurisdictions and is also admitted in New Zealand. Cameron signed the Bar Roll in April 2015 and read with Christopher Archibald KC. Before coming to the Bar, Cameron was an associate to his Honour Judge Cosgrave (now the Honourable Justice Cosgrave) in the Commercial Division of the County Court of Victoria and, prior to that, worked in professional services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Cameron is a member of the Australian Bar Association and the Commercial Bar Association of Victoria and sat on the Victorian Bar’s ADR Committee for 5 years.


Tom Egan, Barrister, Greens List
Tom practices in commercial and public law, with a focus on property (including leasing), insolvency, contracts, corporations and administrative law. Before coming to the Bar in 2024, Tom practised as a solicitor in Hall & Wilcox's commercial dispute resolution team, where he acted in disputes relating to contracts, property development, leasing, oppression, winding up, injunctions and the Land Acquisition and Compensation Act 1986 (Vic). He also practised in the Department of Premier and Cabinet's public law team and in Allens' disputes and investigation team. From 2017-2019, Tom was Associate and then Senior Associate to the Honourable Justice Croft at the Supreme Court of Victoria, where he assisted with general commercial, leasing, class action and state taxation matters, as well as arbitration related proceedings. Tom read with James McKay and his senior mentor was the Honourable Justice Elizabeth Bennett.

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Unfair Contract Terms in Leases: What Property Lawyers Need to Know

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