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Doyles staff speak at a range of seminars, conferences and association meetings.

Our team regularly presents at key legal and industry events across Australia. For example, Jim Doyle is a featured speaker at both Key Media’s Employment Law Masterclass and ADEB’s Construction Defects – Australia’s Apartment Crisis. These events span multiple cities including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, with Jim delivering targeted sessions on restraints of trade and apartment defect law.

Contractual Defects & Design Defect Liability; Regularion, Onus & Impacts

• Legal liabilities: contracts between the owner & developer/contractor/subcontractor (including suppliers, architects, engineers etc.), tort, negligence and misleading conduct, indemnity clauses;
• Potential for loss: whether or not this is an insurable event, policy wording, exclusion clauses, consequential damages, multiple parties on the same policy;
• Defect clauses in standard contracts and likely improvements;
• Principles outlined by the High Court in Bellgrove v Elridge: introduces a test of necessity and reasonableness, D Galambos & Son Pty Ltd v McIntyre: diminution in value to be measure of damages where remedial work is not reasonable;
• Likely reform paths: legislation, Court activism, building codes;

Risk Management: from project inception to post-completion issues, new emerging models.

Jim Doyle also recently presented at: Crown Leadership International Group, Managing Construction Suspension and Contract Termination Masterclass, Brisbane

Disputes and Conflicts within Construction Contracts

• What types of disputes you can expect
• Unveiling the best practice methods for resolving disputes
• Accessing the available dispute resolution mechanisms
• Obtaining a fair deal for all parties in the dispute
• Ensuring proper documentations of the outcome
• Understanding legal and court processes for dispute resolution

  For additional information on any of the forthcoming events email your enquiries to doyles@doylesconstructionlawyers.com