Friday, 13 March 2026
Smart Contracts: The Current Legal Landscape
- Smart contracts v smart legal contracts
- Smart legal contracts as property
- Smart legal contracts and AI agents
- Enforceability and challenges of automated performance
- Guidance for lawyers drafting in this space
Presented by Richard Chew, Partner, McCabes Lawyers
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
Presenters
Richard Chew, Partner, McCabes Lawyers
Richard is an experienced intellectual property and technology lawyer who focuses on commercial transactions and technology, telecommunications and outsourcing matters in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. He assists his clients with commercial transactions, technology and IP commercialisation, outsourcing, IT and commercial telecommunications arrangements, strategic procurement and sourcing, vendor management and negotiated company and business mergers and acquisitions across a range of industries. Richard also works with clients on commercial transactions in the Asia Pacific region, including China, Thailand and India. Richard assisted clients with some of the largest business critical technology and outsourcing transactions in Australia and South East Asia. Working with a diverse range of clients, from small and medium enterprises to the largest ASX-listed companies, his clients operate in the food, liquor, retail, telecommunications and technology services industries. Richard has a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science), a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, all from the Australian National University.
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.
