Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Jane Muir, Barrister, Gerard Brennan Chambers
Clauses & Results: The Top 3 Concerns
- Managing expectations
- Clarity on roles and responsibilities: who does what, when, and how?
- Payment terms: ensuring costs and schedules align with cash flow needs
- Importance of precision in scope, timelines, and deliverables to avoid disputes
- Managing change
- Effective variation clauses to handle changes in scope and program
- Strategies for documenting and agreeing on price and time implications of changes
- Mitigating risk through clear processes for approvals and notifications
- Managing the relationship
- Early termination clauses: balancing flexibility and protection for default or convenience
- Suspension provisions: navigating force majeure and other unforeseen events
- Dispute resolution frameworks: fostering collaboration while protecting legal rights
- Achieving great project outcomes
- Contracts as a proactive tool for collaboration, not just risk allocation
- Fostering trust through transparent and fair contract mechanisms
- Encouraging a commercial mindset that prioritises long-term relationships and mutual success
Presented by Gemma Nugent, Director, SoundLegal
Presenters
Gemma Nugent, Director, SoundLegal
Gemma Nugent, Principal Lawyer at SoundLegal, is a construction, engineering and consulting contract specialist. Gemma has worked extensively with subcontractors, contractors, principals and consultants on major infrastructure, construction, mining, oil and gas and consulting projects in both the private and public sector. She has drafted, reviewed, negotiated and delivered training on a wide variety of project and commercial agreements and has experience with all of the Australian Standard standard form contracts.
Jane Muir, Barrister, Gerard Brennan Chambers
Jane is a commercial barrister based in Brisbane. She appears in State and Federal Courts in Queensland and New South Wales, and represents clients in mediations and arbitrations. At the Bar since 2008, Jane has a broad commercial practice. Her work includes banking, building & construction (in particular, large scale infrastructure disputes), commercial contracts, consumer protection, corporate law, employment, insolvency, insurance, real property and trade practices, matters. She also does a substantial amount of opinion work. Before coming to the Bar, Jane practised for eight years as a solicitor in Sydney, London and Dublin. During that time, she worked in litigation and front end corporate, and banking, roles.
