Friday, 13 March 2026
Chair
Josephine Brook, Special Counsel, Pinsent Mason
Description
Attend and earn 0.5 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Selected Problems in Contract Formation: Intention, Offer, Acceptance and Consideration
- Intention to create legal relations: The Full Federal Court’s deep dive in Cirrus Real
- Time Processing Systems Pty Ltd v Jet Aviation Australia Pty Ltd
- Is the “rule” that consideration must not be illusory, itself illusory?
- Offer and acceptance: How to pick the winner of a “battle of the forms”
Presented by Angus Macinnis, Director, Stevens Vuaran Lawyers
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.
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.
