I have a couple of talks this coming week, in Adelaide on Wednesday and then in Brisbane on Thursday.

The Wednesday talk is on indemnities, with the snappy title of Drafting Indemnities: Getting the Details Right. The session is part of a day run by Legalwise seminars – I suspect most people will be there because of the need to earn CPD points.

More fun will be the session in Brisbane on Thurday, where I will be joining my colleagues from my London chambers – Keating Chambers – Marcus Taverner, Adam Constable and Jennie Wild at a SoCLA event, debating the impact of Cavendish v Makdessi and other recent cases. It will take the form of a sort of debate, Jennie setting the scene, then Adam suggesting that not much has changed, and then me suggesting that the revival and expansion of the doctrine of relief from forfeiture might well be really quite a big change. I have Continue reading →