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    Date January 04, 2018
    Time 9:00am to 5:00pm
    Venue Mandarin Orchard Singapore
    333 Orchard Road
    Singapore 238867
    Fee
    7% GST will apply
    SGD 460.00
    3 & above: SGD440.00 each
    For Member
    SGD 437
    3 & above: SGD418 each
    NoteTwo tea breaks and buffet lunch will be served. Limited complimentary car parking coupons are available upon request.
    Other Date(s)1) Jun 20, 2024
    2) Oct 09, 2024
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    Ignorance of the law is no defence. This practical course provides participants with a working knowledge of business laws so that they can conduct their business effectively within the laws.
    Objective
    Get a thorough understanding of the principles of laws affecting your businesses such as succession business planning, avoiding wrongful acts in the workplace and learning how to protect your business assets including ideas, products, trade-marks, copyrights and trade secrets.

    The business torts of wrongful actions such as negligence and torts of passing off or inducing breach of contract will be explained. This course will also cover how contract clauses are read and interpreted including anti-competitive agreements. To enhance learning, there are quizzes to try. The course will also share best practices in handling commercial disputes by mediation, mini-trials and arbitration.
    Outline
    1. Succession Business Planning
    • Wills
    • Intestacy laws

    2. Preventing Wrongful Acts & Business Torts in Workplace
    • Negligence
    • Employer’s liability
      - Vicarious liability
      - Occupier’s liability and dangerous premises
    • Product liability
      - Defective products
    • Inducing breach of contract
    • Contract restraining work elsewhere
    • Tort of passing off
    • Quiz

    3. Sharing Best Practices in Intellectual Property Rights Management
    • Protecting your business ideas and inventions
    • Patents, copyrights, trademarks and service marks
    • Managing trade secrets and law of confidence
    • Quiz

    4. Managing Business Contracts including under Competition Law
    • anti-competitive agreements
    • abuse of dominant position
    • interpretation of contractual terms
    • managing contracts and termination
    • breach of contracts
    • Quiz

    5. Resolving Business Disputes
    • Mini-trials
    • Mediation
    • Arbitration
    • Alternatives to litigation
    Who should attend
    Directors, Managers and Executives, and any commercial personnel who is running or managing a business and will like to acquire a practical understanding of Business Law to manage business and commercial risks.
    Methodology
    Case-studies and case presentations will be discussed. You do not need to have prior legal knowledge to attend this seminar.
    Catherine Tay's Profile
    Catherine Tay has over 35 years of lecturing experience as an Associate Professor lecturing business law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Department of Strategy and Policy, NUS Business School. She is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore. She is also a barrister-at-law (of Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom). She is an author of more than 8 law books, including her best-seller book title called "Contract Law - A layman Guide".

    She studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and with a Master of Laws, in which she specialised in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance Laws.

    She has facilitated seminars and in-house training courses for many business law topics such as tenancy agreements, contract administration management, procurement contracts, legal and practical aspects of tender management, Service Level Agreements and Outsourcing contracts, oil and gas contract management, insurance contracts, Intellectual Property Laws and PDPA data privacy laws. She is an examiner on law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She has lectured at the NUS Extension in professional and business management law courses.

    She was an adjunct lecturer at NUS Institute of System Science, in IT outsourcing contracts for over 20 years. She is the Honourable Legal Advisor for Singapore Optometric Association, as well as for the Singapore Institute of Engineering Technologists.
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