• Understand the consequences of unwritten and written agreements

• Spot badly worded contract clauses and redraft them to eliminate ambiguity and dangers

• Draft a basic contract for the provision of goods and services

• Suggest amendments to contracts and bids before they are submitted to clients by colleagues

• Understand the law relating to civil and criminal liability for unsafe products

• The objectives of a contract including the allocation of risk

• Special features of engineering sector contracts

• Standard contract forms including MF/1

• The express contract terms including the specification

• The Sale of Goods Act 1979

• The Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982

• Privity

• Misrepresentation

• Contract amendments

• The ability to assign or sub-contract

• Contract novation

• Best endeavours and reasonable endeavours

• Strict liability for delay

• Excusable delay

• The consequences of delay

• The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977

• Drafting exemption clauses

• Regus v Epcot Solutions

• Damages, injunctions and other remedies

• Patents

• Copyright

• Confidential information

• Trade marks

• The nature of a joint venture

• The forms of a joint venture

• The joint venture agreement

• Liability for unsafe products

• Part 1 of the Consumer Protection Act

• Senior and middle engineering managers

• Contract managers