Recorded Webinar: Back to Basics: Common Mistakes to Avoid in Contract Drafting

This webinar is part of TEN’s “Back to Basics” range of webinars which are specifically produced for junior practitioners. This webinar is priced at only $99 as our way of giving back to the profession and providing a cost effective means for firms to provide CPD for junior practitioners.

The practice of grabbing a precedent document and cutting and pasting can save heaps of time but the consequences of having a contract which is inadequate or full of gaps can be costly and dire. This session will examine the common mistakes made in drafting contracts and provide a toolkit for checking all eventualities are catered for in the final draft, including:

• Don’t neglect the planning stage – what is the contract’s purpose?
• The perils and pitfalls of precedent usage
• Legal formalities and other requirements including statutory obligations
• Identifying and defining the parties and their obligations
• Drafting for the now and then – anticipating changing circumstances and potential events
• Strategies for avoiding uncertainty, imprecision and ambiguity
• Common problems in formatting, cross-referencing and grammar
• Typo’s – harmless or harmful?
• Checking, checking and checking again
• Cases and examples