InBrief

The Commercial Law Association presents the following lunchtime and half day seminars during March 2012.

Friday, 16 March 2012 Protecting IP in the Digital Age A Commercial Law Association halfday seminar 8.45am to 12.30pm, Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library CLA members $285; non-members $335 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speakers

Martin Leeuwangh, Intellectual Property Manager, CSIRO (Chair) Dianne Beer, Special Counsel, Herbert Geer Connie Merlino, Partner, FB Rice; Gary Lo, Senior Associate, AAR; Sarah Lux, Solicitor, AAR

Friday, 16 March 2012 The ACCC, lawyers and consumers: recent developments in Australia Consumer and Competition Law A Commercial Law Association lunchtime seminar 12.45 to 2.00pm, Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library CLA members $79; non-members $109 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker: Russell Miller AM, Minter Ellison

Friday, 23 March 2012 Directors' Duties A Commercial Law Association halfday seminar 8.45am to 12.30pm, Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library CLA members $285; non-members $335 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker

Jonathan Casson, Managing Partner, Holman Webb (Chair) Kate O'Rourke, Senior Executive Leader, Corporations, ASIC Matthew McLennan, Partner, AAR John Morgan, Partner, AAR Greg Golding, Partner, Mallesons Stephen Jaques Simon White SC, 53 Martin Place Chambers

The seminar will offer insights into: • Recent ASIC initiatives: directors' duties, responsibilities and compliance • Continuous disclosure • Financial statements • Directors' duties and class actions • Recent cases: the implications of Centro and directors' duties • How psychology can improve board performance

Friday, 23 March 2012 Sahab Holdings Pty Ltd v Registrar-General & Anor: The power of the court ot change the register of titles - any challenge to indefeasibility for landowners and mortgagees? A Commercial Law Association lunchtime seminar 12.45 to 2.00pm, Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library CLA members $79; non-members $109 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speaker:Gregory Burton SC, 5 Wentworth Chambers

Friday, 30 March 2012 Equity & Contract The 2012 Journal of Equity Conference in association with the Commercial Law Association 9.30am to 4.30pm, Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing, NSW State Library CLA members $795; non-members $895 Register at www.cla.org.au

Speakers

Hon Kevin Lindgren, QC, Former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia Justice James Edelman, Supreme Court of Western Australia Professor Lusina Ho, University of Hong Kong Professor Elisabeth Peden, University of Sydney

The seminar will offer insights into: • Estoppel against relying on the correct construction of a contract • Disgorgement of profits as a common remedy for breach of contract • Undue influence and contract • Penalties and forfeitures

2 March�2012