Monday, 2 March 2026
Chair
John Larkings, Barrister, Blackburn Chambers; Leading Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution ACT Barrister, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law and Procedural Law
This program is based on ACT legislation
Remedies in Contract Law
- Specific performance
- Damages under the Australian Consumer Law (ACL)
- Injunctions
- Unjust enrichment
- Quantum meruit
- General law damages
Presented by Richard McGilvray, Partner, McGilvray; Recommended Construction Litigation ACT Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Presenters
Richard McGilvray, Partner, McGilvrayRichard is a Partner of McGilvray. Richard's one goal is to meet his clients' legal and commercial needs. He invests time listening to his clients’ needs to build long term relationships and help with all matters of business. His expertise is in commercial disputes and litigation, property law, commercial law as well as building and construction law. Richard regularly appears in the Magistrates Court, the Supreme Court and the Federal Court. He also has experience at appellate level. Richard has a Masters of Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne, where he achieved the second highest grade point average possible.
John Larkings, Barrister, Blackburn Chambers
John Larkings was admitted in 2003 and recently joined the ACT Bar having been a solicitor in a prominent legal firm in Canberra for over 11 years. As a solicitor, he was a NSW Law Society Accredited Specialist in Commercial Litigation Law, and was listed in Doyle's Guide as a recommended Canberra Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution Lawyer in 2016 and 2017. His background is predominantly in the conduct of commercial litigation, including contract disputes, Corporations Act matters, and equity. His practice in property-related litigation has included matters involving title disputes, enforcement of securities and judgments against real property, the removal of caveats, lessee make-good obligations (including environmental issues), and the duties of mortgagees in effecting seizure and sale orders.
