Contract Law Update 2024

Introduction

This all new 2024 contract update webinar includes brand new cases and key developments in commercial law.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• SMIT Salvage - unambiguous communication and intention to be bound
• Emojis and WhatsApp - can they equate to a B2B contract?
• Small print and burying onerous terms
• Mixed status heads of terms - enforceable or not?
• The Body Shop - common sense interpretation and implied terms
• Crude King Carriers - ‘days’ or ‘clear days’?
• Hunters Franchising Ltd - Braganza decision making
• Glencore Energy UK - negotiation in good faith
• Candey Ltd - revisiting relational contracts after Bates v Post Office
• Holman Fenwick Willan LLP - payment guarantee
• Downing LLP - the purview of a guarantee
• Drax Smart Generation - indemnities and warranties
• Cigna Insurance - the end of the Canada Steamship rule when you use indemnities for negligence
• Illegal contracts
• Fiduciary obligation, negative obligations and performance - based obligations
• LDs after termination
• Material breach, substantial breach, persistent breach and serious breach explained
• Warranty true less warranty false measures of loss revisited
• Limitation of liability and refusals to perform after Pinewood Technologies
• Dishonest breach - can the exclusion clause still apply?
• Deliberate and/or wilful breach - can you carve out from the exclusion clause after AMT Vehicle Rentals
• Profit and anticipated profits - are they the same?
• The latest on standard terms under UCTA
• Primary obligations are exempt from the exclusion clause - Costcutter Supermarkets Group Ltd
• Force majeure and asymmetrical clauses after Litasco SA
• Third party rights - novation by conduct - Musst Holdings Ltd
• Jurisdiction
• Competition and data update
• Managing AI in your contracts

This webinar was recorded on 18th September 2024

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