Friday, 13 March 2026
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Chair
Josephine Brook, Special Counsel, Pinsent Mason
Drafting to Limit or Exclude Liability
- When are limitation and exclusion clauses appropriate?
- How are Courts approaching consequential loss exclusion clauses?
- Drafting effective limitation and exclusion clauses
- Negotiating the carve-outs
Presented by Owen Hayford, Principal, Infralegal, Leading Front End Construction, Infrastructure & Major Projects Lawyers, Doyle’s Guide 2025
Presenters

Josephine Brook, Special Counsel, Pinsent Mason
Josephine is an experienced and client-focussed advisor and litigator, with extensive experience in civil and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, specialising in infrastructure and construction. She has acted for and advised private and public sector clients across a wide variety of industries, including transport infrastructure (road, rail, rolling stock and airports), telecommunications, energy (including renewables), water recycling, hospitals and health infrastructure, commercial property development and residential building, and related insurance issues.

Owen Hayford, Principal, Infralegal
Owen has 30+ years of experience advising on contracts, with a focus on infrastructure projects. Owen has graduated from being a senior partner at Clayton Utz, to board and other strategic advisory roles that draw on his lifetime of legal experience. He now leads Infralegal, a boutique firm that specialises in providing strategic legal, commercial and governance advice to participants in the infrastructure and construction sectors.