Description
Attend and earn 1 CPD hour
* This interactive online recording includes questions and quizzes requiring critical thinking about the topics, so you have no annual limits to the number of points/hours you can claim with this format of learning. Please verify with your CPD rules
Chair
Mark Kelly, Commercial Mediator and Barrister, Bankside Chambers; Best Lawyers 2023, Most Influential Lawyers
Learning Objective:
- Understand the various types of damages available for breach of contract
Remedies for Breach of Contract
- Damages available for breach of contract, including expectation and reliance damages and damages for loss of a chance
- Equitable remedies available for breach of contract
- Impact of limitation of liability or exclusion clauses on damages for breach of contract
- Enforceability of Penalty clauses
Presented by Alice Poole, Senior Associate, Simpson Grierson
Presenters
Alice Poole, Senior Associate, Simpson Grierson
Alice specialises in large and complex commercial disputes across a range of different sectors. She has experience advising on a broad range of commercial litigation, and all other forms of dispute resolution, with a focus on contractual disputes and company and directors’ duties litigation.
Mark Kelly, Commercial Mediator and Barrister, Bankside Chamber
Mark is one of New Zealand’s leading commercial mediators, mediating full-time, throughout New Zealand. He has over 30 years of experience in dispute resolution. Mark is the immediate past President, and a Fellow, of the Arbitrators' and Mediators' Institute of New Zealand. He is also a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators. Mark has extensive experience successfully mediating high value disputes involving: general commercial issues, construction, insurance, intellectual property, trusts and estates, relationship property, rural and farm debt, sports, earthquake, weathertightness and international issues. Mark won the Mediator of the Year Award at the 2019 and 2022 New Zealand Law Awards. In 2023 he was named as one of New Zealand’s 26 most influential lawyers. He practices from Bankside Chambers, Auckland.
