Professional Liability Issues For Engineering Services Consultants 1 – 2 September 2021
Course Date
2021-09-01
Course Time
08:30
Course Location
Virtual
SARF (2days) Professional Liability Issues for Engineering Service Consultants
Workshop overview:
In this world the engineering service consultants are facing increasing competition, project complexity and client demands for higher quality work, faster delivery of services, greater flexibility at lower cost and prices. Successful consultants realise that avoiding or mitigating legal liability issues is central to their reputational and financial survival.
This must attend workshop provides an overview of the law as it related to professional liability in contract and delict (tort) generally as well as on the practical issues facing the consultants over the entire life cycle of engineering projects.
Workshop benefits:
- Understand the engineering service consultants’
- liabilities under the law of contract, as mandatary or agent
- vicarious liability and professional indemnities
- design liability
- liabilities when acting as a certifier, adjudicator or arbitrator
- need to unravel, understand, and interpret contract documentation
- need to do a legal risk assessment of their liabilities before binding themselves contractually.
Who this workshop is for:
- Engineering service consultants
- Built-environment profession consultants
- Consulting professionals
- Mandataries, Agents, Project Managers,
- Construction Management Teams
- Contractors
Workshop facilitator:
Your workshop is a qualified attorney and contracts consultant with extensive legal, consulting and training facilitation experience, in industry contracts such as GCC®, FIDIC®, NEC® & JBCC®. He provides contract consulting services on pre-award contracting risk, contract administration, claims and disputes adjudication and arbitration
Presenter Adv Gavin Weiman
Delegates can claim 2 ECSA CPD points