Thursday, 27 February 2025
Chair
Greg Martin, Principal, Martin Bullock Lawyers
Legal Strategies and Risk Management in Your Contracts
- Using contracts to cap and avoid liability for risks
- How to use contracts to cap or exclude liability: legal do’s and don’ts
- Why capping or excluding liability can be a reasonable thing to do
- Why your contract counterparty might accept a liability cap
- Negotiating exclusion and limitation clauses
Presented by Owen Hayford, Principal, Infralegal, Leading Front End Construction, Infrastructure & Major Projects Lawyers, Doyles’s Guide 2024
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is based on NSW legislation
Presenters
Greg Martin, Principal, Martin Bullock LawyersGreg Martin is the principal of the firm Martin Bullock Lawyers, a small boutique city law firm. Greg has extensive experience in litigation including Commercial, Family Law, and Wills and Estates. Greg was formerly an Accredited Specialist with the Law Society and also lectured in law for many years in Contracts, Advanced Torts, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Criminal Law. Greg is passionate about the rule of law and legal education, mentoring and coaching younger lawyers and law students, and maintaining a healthy work-life balance, particularly with 2 adorable new grandchildren. Greg loves art, poetry, satire and sport generally and eagerly awaits the next Sydney Swans premiership before retiring, deity-of-choice willing.
Owen Hayford, Principal, Infralegal
Owen has over 25 years experience advising on contracts, with a focus on infrastructure projects. Owen commenced his legal career at Clayton Utz, where he became a senior partner. He also led the infrastructure teams at PwC Legal and DLA Piper before graduating from the Big Firm model to establish Infralegal. Infralegal’s business model allows Owen to specialise in providing strategic legal and commercial advice without the overheads and constraints associated with the BigLaw business model. Owen has drafted and negotiated more clauses that limit or exclude liability than he cares to remember. He brings technical understanding to this topic, seasoned with commerciality.
