Advanced Document Drafting
Date/Time
20 February 2025
1.30pm to 4.45pm AEDT
Live and Online
About the
College of Law Courses
This program is delivered by TEN The Education Network Partner - The College of Law.
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Take your drafting skills to the next level.
Are you looking to refine and build on your drafting skills to produce powerful, precise, direct and accurate legal documents?
Join us in our half-day live webinar and you will:
- Master different planning techniques to produce logical and well-structured documents
- Build on your skillset so you can tailor your communications in ways that are client focused and unambiguous
- Fine-tune and test your abilities through practical drafting exercises
Facilitated by:
- Alex Ottaway, Partner, HWL Ebsworth, Sydney
- Chris Bland, Principal, Legal Tradecraft Consulting
At the end of this live webinar, you will earn 3 CPD points.
Outline
1.30pm: Login/Welcome
1.35pm: Contractual interpretation in 2024 and beyond
Speaker: Alex Ottaway, Partner, HWL Ebsworth
- Current approach of the High Court
- Ambiguity
- Inconsistency
- Correction of mistakes by construction
- Contractual maxims; the modern approach
- Interpretation of specific types of contract
- The future of contractual interpretation
3pm: Break
3.15pm: Drafting contracts in a commercial context
Speaker: Chris Bland, Principal, Legal Tradecraft Consulting
- Drafting in the business context:
- Aims and objectives
- The drafting process from initial instructions to document execution
- Developing drafting technique
- Use of precedents
- Practical drills on style, active & passive voice. sentence length etc
- Drafting and commercial risk allocation
- Capturing the business relationship and terms of agreement: the drafting translational skill
- Six top tips for stress testing your drafting
- Conclusions
4.15pm: Drafting exercise and discussion
4.45pm: Close
Who should attend
This webinar is ideal for solicitors who want to improve their drafting skills.
This webinar is produced in NSW and features NSW based practitioners. This webinar is available to practitioners from all Australian jurisdictions.
CPD information
3 CPD units - professional skills