Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Professional Skills
This program is based on NSW legislation
Chair
Greg Martin, Principal, Martin Bullock Lawyers
Professional Skills
Drafting and Enforcing “Midnight Clauses”
Choice of law clauses: Which legal system governs the contract, and how do you answer that question if the parties have not made a choice?
- Choice of forum clauses: Sure, we want our day in court, but where?
- ADR clauses: actually, maybe we don’t want our day in court – is there a better way?
- Can “midnight clauses” be challenged as unfair contract terms under the Australian Consumer Law?
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
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.
Angus Macinnis, Director of Dispute Resolution, StevensVuaran Lawyers
Angus Macinnis is Director of Dispute Resolution at StevensVuaran Lawyers, a boutique commercial law firm in Sydney. Alongside his commercial dispute resolution practice, he has taught international sale of goods law at the University of Technology, Sydney, The University of Notre Dame Australia, and presently in the Thomas More Law School at the Australian Catholic University, where he holds the role of Legal Professional Mentor. He has also been invited to present lectures on the CISG for the international law practice course conducted by the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, and is a former co-chair of the Section’s International Trade and Business Law Committee.
