This packed lunchtime session is the perfect opportunity to catch up on Victoria’s biggest building law reform in years. 1 July has passed, and the Building Legislation Amendment (Buyer Protections) Act 2025 is now in effect. Learn to navigate new regulatory powers, expanded consumer protections, stricter insurance requirements, and heightened enforcement risks affecting your clients’ projects and legal strategies….and you don’t need to commit to a full or half-day seminar to get these essential updates.

Presenters

Megan Calder, Principal, Japenoch Legal and Advisory
Megan is a leading infrastructure and construction legal advisor with over 20 years’ experience in legal, risk and commercial strategy for infrastructure and construction projects. Megan is a commercially minded relationship builder who likes to be challenged. She thrives on developing trusted relationships with her clients that enables her to truly understand their commercial needs. She works with her clients to come up with creative solutions and thrives on adapting to changing environments, thinking outside the box and responding to new and difficult situations. She is known for her commercial and solutions focused approach. That approach has seen her develop a deep understanding of the strategic and practical requirements of her clients so as to enable her to work as a trusted adviser and partner with them throughout all stages of the construction process, from negotiating complex contracts, to project delivery and ultimately resolution of disputes. Megan regularly advises clients on incentivised cost agreements, head contracts, alliance greements and joint ventures, finance agreements, subcontracts and consultants agreements. Her litigation experience has included renewable energy, civil infrastructure including roads, dams, desalination plants, hospitals and marinas, together with processing plants and commercial, aged care and residential disputes. With experience across all jurisdictions, including the High Court of Australia, and dispute resolution forums, including adjudications, expert determinations and arbitrations, Megan has acted on matters ranging from contractual entitlements and termination to recourse to bank guarantees and security of payment claims. Megan is also Deputy Chair of the Law Council of Australia - Construction and Infrastructure Subcommittee and a non- executive director.

Temple Saville, Barrister, Nationally Accredited Mediator, The Victorian Bar
Temple practices in commercial law, public law and regulatory matters. Temple is a Nationally Accredited Mediator and is on the List of External Mediators published by the Magistrates’ Court. She is available to be briefed as a mediator. Temple accepts briefs to advise and/or appear. Temple has an interest in insolvency and bankruptcy related matters and has completed the ARITA Advanced Certification in Insolvency. Temple advises and appears for clients in respect to personal insolvency and corporate insolvency. She has experience in dealing with winding up application, creditors petitions, voidable transactions, insolvent trading claims and directors’ duties generally. Temple also has experience in building disputes where she represents clients in relation to breach of contract and warranties, defects, delays, and variations. Temple also appears and advises in relation to all aspects of debt recovery, contractual disputes, Australian Consumer Law matters, civil claims and interlocutory applications.

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.