Global Learning for Operational Leaders
Introduction
Course overview
Many contract disputes arise not because parties disagree about what happened, but because they disagree about what the contract means. Ambiguous wording, inconsistent clauses, undefined terms and conflicting documents can all lead to sharply different readings, and the outcome of a dispute may turn on how a single sentence is interpreted.
This Interpreting Contract Clauses training course explains the principles that courts, arbitrators and experienced practitioners use to determine the meaning of contract terms. Participants learn about the objective approach to interpretation, the role of context and commercial common sense, rules on documents of different priority, implied terms, contra proferentem and other canons of construction, and how to draft to reduce ambiguity.
The course is practical and example-driven, helping non-lawyers and lawyers alike to read contracts more precisely.