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The Professional Diploma in the English Law of Contract is a brand new practical and interactive post-graduate executive course designed for legal practitioners and risk professionals in an international business environment. English Law is often selected as the applicable law when trading with a number of jurisdictions in the British Commonwealth and Asia, the Pacific, Europe, the CIS and globally – even in the Americas. Hence, its importance is not limited to the UK.
This course aims to give the busy legal practitioner, judicial officer, regulator, diplomatic and government, trade and logistics, consulting, finance, insurance or industry professional or chief a practical working knowledge of the law of contract of England as determined by the Commercial Court and other trial and appellate courts in England and the British Commonwealth.
If there were one body of law to choose to study for global management and legal practice, the English Law of Contract might well be it: English law is used and is useful, with some recognizable and discernible variation, in the states and federal courts of the Australian Federation, in New Zealand, in the Caribbean jurisdictions, in the Pacific, and in busy Asian jurisdictions such as Hong Kong and Singapore – as well as by parties to private dispute resolution mechanisms throughout Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific.
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
The link to connect via MS Teams will be sent to participants before the first day of the course.
(1): 19. 9. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(2): 26. 9. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(3): 3. 10. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(4): 10. 10. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(5): 17. 10. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(6): 24. 10. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(7): 31. 10. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(8): 7. 11. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(9): 14. 11. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(10): 21. 11. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(11): 28. 11. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(12): 5. 12. 2025 16:00 – 17:30
(1) Formation, Formalities, Pre-Contractual Representations and Defenses
(2) The Construction of Terms and Performance, Breach and Discharge of Contracts at Law and in Equity
(3) Exclusions and Limitations, Privity, Third Parties and Related Doctrines
(4) Variation, Waiver and Estoppels
(5) The Frustration of Contracts and Force Majeure
(6) Remedies and Procedure
(7) Cross Border Contracts and Private International Law
Gregory K. McGOLDRICK, LL.B, LL.M. (Qld Tech School of Law)
A veteran legal practitioner and lecturer of the Anglo-American law, Mr. McGoldrick was awarded his Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees by the law school at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Currently he serves as an Attorney-Instructor of the British Legal Centre for Central Europe, and the Senior Attorney-Instructor of the English Legal Centre of London, training foreign counsel and student counsel (including LL.B. students in British programs), management, finance, insurance and trade professionals, executives in East Asia (including chaebol and keiretsu chiefs in Seoul, Korea and Tokyo, Japan), Central Asia, and in Europe. His lecturing experience includes teaching as lecturer and docent in British programs (University of Greenwich LL.M.), in East Asia (in Japan and Korea), in Central Asia (including training and preparing students for practice in the international court, the AIFC, in Astana, KZ), as well as at the Anglo-American University in Central Europe (within the M.B.A. law program).
In legal practice, within the British Commonwealth, specifically in the Australian Federation, Gregory practised as a commercial and general litigation solicitor, appearing in state and federal courts of record. Further, Gregory is admitted as an attorney & counsellor-at-law in New York State (presently inactive). He specialises in training and preparing industry, trade, investment and government managers, and members of the legal, judicial and diplomatic professions in the English Law of Contract and the English Commercial Law for cross-border risk, trade and commerce.
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