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#New: Toolbox: Drafting International Agreements: Via Skype
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New Essential International Agreements Course Skype is now available for groups (maximum 6 people) or on a 1 – to – 1 lesson with your tutor.
This course is aimed at assisting you with drafting international agreements with more confidence and attract those multinational clients or take your clients internationally.
The focus of the course will be practical with emphasis on the essential clauses found in international agreements. We will examine critical matters around the negotiation of international agreements across national borders and within different legal systems.
Topics covered include:-
- International formation of agreements under the common law
- Battle of the forms consequences
- Main commercial provisions in international agreements
- Biolerplate clauses – applicable law, court of competent jurisdictions, language, termination, limitation of liability clauses, conditions precedent, conditions subsequent
- Penalty v Liquidated Damages Clauses
- Practical drafting exercises and feedback
Classes will be live with your tutor, Sofia Parastatidou. Sofia is an internationally recognized legal trainer and international legal consultant who collaborates with SC Legal.
Language: The course will be taught in English.
Duration: 2 hours
Date: 30 August 2019
Time: 16 – 18 pm (CEST)
Cost:
- Individual course – €199 (incl. IVA)
- Group course (max 6 people) – €149 (incl. IVA)
The price includes materials, individual feedback and a certificate of participation.
Places are strictly limited so that students obtain the maximum benefit from their course.
NB: Students will be grouped together in accordance with their level of English and additional classes may be organized to ensure that a homogeous group is achieved.
To receive the enrolment forms, fill in the form below.
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Negotiations can lead to liability …beware…
Are you negotiating contracts ? Do you know how to avoid liability during negotiations ?
You could find yourself not only bound in contract but liable for representations made during negotiations even if you have not signed an agreement or even written the agreement out.
So how can you avoid liability during negotiations ? How does this situation work in your jurisdiction.
Leave your comments below.
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Did you know that contracts have 7 Stages ?
It is said that contracts go through a 7-stage process. These are:-
1. Specification
2. Make – Buy
3. Source – Award
4. Implementation
5. Operate
6. End options
7. Lessons
Do you know what these mean ? Put your comments below.
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#Brexit Bill Defeated by the House of Lords.
The Brexit Bill has been defeated by the House of Lords by a majority of about 100. The Lords argued that there was not sufficient protection for EU nations in the UK.
The Bill now goes back to the House of Commons to be amended and presented again.
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So you want to be a UK solicitor !- Part 1
The QLTS is aimed at those qualified lawyers who wish to re-qualify in England and Wales as a solicitor.
This overview of the process may help you in deciding to become an English qualified solicitor.
What are the Key Features of the QLTS ?
1. What qualifications do I need ?
To be admitted as a solicitor via the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme you must be a qualified lawyer in your home jurisdiction. This means that you have
- a qualification as a lawyer that gives you rights of audience before the Courts;
- makes you an officer of the court in the jurisdiction in which you have qualified;
- and has been awarded as part of a generalist (non-specialist) legal education and training
- 2. Do I need to come from a recognised jurisdiction ?
- Yes. To come from a ‘recognised jurisdiction’ means that you have qualified in a jurisdiction where:
- to qualify as a lawyer specific education and training at least equivalent to that of an English and Welsh Bachelor’s degree has been completed;
- members of the qualified lawyers’ profession are bound by an ethical code which requires them to act without conflict of interest and to respect their clients interests and confidentiality;
- and qualified lawyers are subject to disciplinary sanctions for breach of the profession’s ethical code, including right to practise;
- meet the SRA’s requirements for character and suitability.
3. Why does the SRA consider the character and suitability of future solicitors ?
- The SRA has a duty to consider the character and suitability of anyone who wants to enter the profession, and must ensure that any individual admitted as a solicitor has, and maintains, the level of honesty, integrity and professionalism expected by the public and other stakeholders and professionals, and does not pose a risk to the public or profession.
- 4. What criteria is taken into account when the SRA assesses the character and suitability issues
The criteria is set out in the Suitability Test and include, inter alia,
You must:
- uphold the rule of law and the proper administration of justice;
- act with integrity;
- not allow your independence to be compromised;
- act in the best interests of each client;
- provide a proper standard of service to your clients;
- behave in a way that maintains the trust the public places in you and in the provision of legal services;
- comply with your legal and regulatory obligations and deal with your regulators and ombudsmen in an open, timely and co-operative manner;
- run your business or carry out your role in the business effectively and in accordance with proper governance and sound financial and risk management principles;
- run your business or carry out your role in the business in a way that encourages equality of opportunity and respect for diversity; and
- protect client money and assets.
Further details of the Suitability Test can be found by clicking on the link (SRA Suitability Criteria)
5. Finally, you need to successfully complete the QLTS assessments: the assessments assess the Day One Outcomes for solicitors.
(If you are interested in sitting the QLTS or would like to know more information, send an email to interlawconferences@gmail.com)
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Professional Conduct & Regulation (QLTS Module)
Upon completion of this module, participants will be able to identify and act in accordance with the core duties of professional conduct and professional ethics.
- The Principles – Lawyers need to be familiar with the solicitors regulations and in particular the mandatory SRA principles.
- The Code of Conduct
- Duties and responsibilities owed to clients
- Running of the business
- Interacting with the Regulator
- Duties to others
- Money Laundering
- Financial Services
- Solicitors Accounts
For further details send an email to interlawconferences@gmail.com. Course dates for 2017 will be available shortly. Click here for details Professional Responsability
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LEGAL ETHICS
This course focuses on the recognition of the demands and standards imposed upon or expected of practitioners. Apart from examining the fundamental duties and obligations practitioners have we will also be studying the apparent conflicts and their resolution.
The objectives of the course are therefore:
(a) to give the student a sound background of the statute, common law and rules and regulations which govern professional practice as a legal practitioner;
(b) to provide guidance as to what can go wrong, how to recognise a problem, and what help is available, and what may occur where there has been an ethical breach.
Topics to be studied include: –
- Solicitors’ duties and the Regulation of practitioners;
- The lawyer’s duty to the client;
- The lawyer’s duty to the Court;
- The lawyer’s duty to the public, other parties and colleagues;
- Regulation of practitioners and confidential communications and privilege.
- Misconduct and unsatisfactory professional conduct
- Disciplinary apparatus in UK
- Admission and expulsion of lawyers
For further details on this course and to join our mailing list send an email to: interlawconferences@gmail.com . Dates for courses in 2017 coming soon.
Click here for further detailsLegal Ethics
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Interviewing and Advising Clients (QLTS Module)
On completion of this module, participants should demonstrate an understanding of the principles and techniques of the skills of interviewing and advising.
Element 1: Interviewing
Participants should:
- be able to choose an appropriate way to obtain relevant information
- be able to plan, prepare for and identify the objectives of an interview
- understand how to conduct an effective interview that elicits the relevant information, allows the client to explain any concerns, anticipates the client’s questions and has clear outcomes
- be able to listen actively and use appropriate questioning techniques
- be able to establish a professional relationship.
Element 2: Advice and follow up
Participants should be able to:
- advise the client taking into account the client’s objectives, priorities and constraints and addressing all relevant factual, practical and legal issues
- identify possible courses of action, the legal and non-legal consequences of a course of action (including the costs, benefits and risks) and assist the client in reaching a decision
- identify any further decisions to be made or steps to be taken and manage the client’s expectations including likely outcomes and timescales
- accurately record an interview, advice given orally, decisions made by the client and follow-up steps and, where appropriate, confirm instructions in each case in accordance with the outcomes for Writing
- identify the circumstances in which to take instructions or seek advice from a supervising solicitor.
For further details send an email to interlawconferences@gmail.com or visit the site by clicking here Interviewing and Advising Clients (QLTS)
Course dates for 2017 will be available shortly.
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Effective Writing Skills (QLTS Module)
Effective Writing means maximum organization. Poor organization leads to a missed opportunity to present your ideas, and yourself, with power.
In this module, you will learn how to organize your writing for effective communication.
Specifically, participants will :-
- understand and be able to choose the appropriate method of communication
- understand and be able to apply the principles of good writing.
Part I: Appropriate use of media
Participants should:
- understand the appropriate uses of emails, letters, memoranda and other forms of written communication
- be able to choose the appropriate medium, form and style
- be able to tailor the written communication to suit the purpose of the communication and the needs of different clients or recipients.
Part II: Writing style
Participants should be able to produce written work which is appropriate for the chosen medium and the recipient and which:
- uses accurate, straightforward and modern language
- uses correct spelling, grammar, syntax and punctuation
- has a clear, logical, consistent and appropriate structure and format
- has been checked and edited.
Part III: Content
Students should be able to produce written work which:
- forms a coherent whole and, where appropriate, advances the matter;
- addresses accurately and correctly all the relevant legal and factual issues and, where appropriate, identifies practical options including the costs, benefits and risks of those options
- identifies clearly clients’ objectives and priorities, addresses their concerns and carries out their instructions
- accurately and systematically records a meeting or presentation and its outcomes.
For further details send an email to interlawconferences@gmail.com or click here for details Effective Writing Skills – QLTS
Course dates for 2017 will be available shortly.
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Commercial Transactions (QLTS Module)
In this module, participants will be learning how to handle and progress basic business transactions arising during the life and development of a business.
The Learning Outcomes of this core practice area are: –
- Progress common business transactions and advise and take steps relating to the business’s on-going operations
- Advise on entering into contracts on behalf of the business (including issues arising from contracts in which directors have an interest)
- Advise on steps to protect the assets of the business
- Advise on issues arising from basic finance and lending
- Draft notices, agendas and minutes of meetings and complete and file routine statutory forms and maintain and up-date statutory books
- Advise on taxation of profits (income and capital) generated and distributed by the business
- Demonstrate the appreciation of the continuing duties, obligations and liabilities of the business and of its partners, directors and shareholders
- Advise on the options for and claims arising on insolvency (eg bankruptcy, winding up and administration)
- Draft and review documentation to give effect to transactions
Following the completion of this module, participants will be able to
(a) to learn the law relating to common commercial transactions;
(b) to use legal principles to solve problems arising from those transactions; and
(c) to advise clients about those problems in a straightforward, business-like manner.
Topics include:-
- Types of Personal Property
- Transfer of Possession
- Bailment
- Transfer of Ownership
- Supply of Personal Property
- Convention of International Sale of Goods (Vienna Convention) Article 67,68,69
- UNIDROIT Principles – Incoterms
- Finance
- Risk Management and Risk Allocation (Security, Reservation of Title, Insurance, Subrogation)
- Negotiable Instruments – Bills of Exchange, Cheques
For further details or join the mailing list, send an email to interlawconferences@gmail.com or visit our site by clicking here Commercial Transactions – QLTS details.
Details for courses in 2017 will be available soon.
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