Sean Brady, SCL Australia Director, interviews Kiri Parr, Arup Principal and Legal Counsel, on how we need to disrupt the construction industry.
Have clients given too much power to their lawyers?
Where are we as a construction industry? Where are we headed?
What are the impacts of mega projects on the everyday working lives of our people, and what are the biggest disconnects between how we think big projects work, as opposed to how they actually work in practice?
Why is Australia holding back from being a leader in the construction industry? And are lawyers and financiers best placed to determine a project’s procurement model?
Kiri discusses all this and more on the SCL Australia Podcast.
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Follow SCL Australia on Twitter: @SCLAust
Follow Kiri Parr on Twitter: @KiriParr
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
At the recent SCL National Conference, Director Ian Bailey AM SC discussed the topical issue of private certification and defective building materials with Alisa Taylor, Partner at Meyer Vandenberg Lawyers in Canberra. Ian and Alisa discuss the need to get a unified approach across Australia to address the issues encountered by the industry in building regulation.
If you missed out on attending this conference, Alisa and Ian run through some of the highlights and key takeaways from the presentations. Alisa and Ian are introduced by Sean Brady, an SCL director.
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
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This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
When an aircraft crashes, or there is a near-miss, the airline industry rushes to learn the lessons so as to keep planes flying safely across our skies. Why doesn’t the construction industry take the same approach to project failures? In this podcast, Jaclyn Smith is joined by her fellow SoCLA directors, Dr Sean Brady (Brady Heywood), Matthew Bell (Melbourne Law School) and Kara Vague (Downer) to discuss the human element in construction projects. We explore the role of lawyers in doing more than just getting the contracts right, and why Australia’s distrust of authority can help avert disasters on site.
Connect with these SCL Australia Directors on Twitter (@SCLAust):
Matthew Bell: @MelbConstrucLaw
Dr Sean Brady: @BradyHeywood
Kara Vague: @KaraVague
Jaclyn Smith: @jaclynlindsay
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Laws are supposed to keep things in order. How, then, do they get so complex that they cause headaches - or worse - for the construction industry? In this podcast, Jaclyn Smith is joined by her fellow SCL Australia directors, Matthew Bell (Melbourne Law School), Dr Sean Brady (Brady Heywood) and Laina Chan (3 Wentworth Chambers). They focus on construction industry security of payment laws: brought in to crack a seemingly simple nut of keeping cashflow moving, these laws have mutated into a multi-headed beast in Australia. There does, however, finally seem to be some hope that this monster might be tamed by way of a federal review being undertaken during 2017.
Connect with these SCL Australia Directors on Twitter (@SCLAust):
Matthew Bell: @MelbConstrucLaw
Dr Sean Brady: @BradyHeywood
Laina Chan: @LainaChan1
Jaclyn Smith: @jaclynlindsay
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Kara Vague is the current Chair of the Society of Construction Law Australia, having had an extensive involvement spanning a number of Committees over the last few years.
In this interview, Director Jaclyn Smith (@jaclynlindsay) asks Kara to reflect on her career and time with the Society, and share some of the current and upcoming activities.
For those looking to get in contact with Kara:
Twitter: @KaraVague
Email: Kara.Vague@downergroup.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kara-vague-b471b420/
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Jaclyn Smith, Director of SCL Australia, interviews Andrew Stephenson (Partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth) and Craig Macaulay (Executive Director at KordaMentha Forensic) on updates to predictive coding and technology assisted review, and what this means for construction disputes.
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Melissa Yeo, Director of SCL Australia, interviews Wendy MacLaughlin, Senior Vice President of HKA Global, about her journey to becoming an internationally sought after construction programming expert, her advice for people working in the construction disputes space and the key features of the new SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol.
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
Raisa Conchin and Elizabeth Conlan discuss how to manage the pre-allocation of risk in the era of proportionate liability.
Raisa Conchin is a Partner of Wotton + Kearney and Elizabeth Conlan is a Senior Associate of Wotton + Kearney.
Kindly sponsored by Baker McKenzie, this SCL event was held on 8 March 2017 in Brisbane.
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
In this episode Melissa Yeo sits down with Teagan Dowler, the author of the newly released book Rules of the Game - Women in the Masculine Industries.
Teagan is also the founder of the Blue Collared Woman, a community that supports the development of initiatives to achieve greater diversity and inclusion within the engineering, resource and construction industries.
Melissa and Teagan talk about the issues facing women in these industries and discuss how by understanding the concept of the filing cabinet - a cause of many of these issues - women can better navigate their way to success and pave the way for future women to do the same.
Rules of the Game: Women in the Masculine Industries can be purchased at:
Hard copy: www.thebcw.com.au/shop
e-book: https://www.amazon.com.au/Rules-Game-Women-Masculine-Industries-ebook/dp/B01F2Y4RAC
You can connect with The BCW at the following accounts:
Instagram: thebcw
Twitter:thebluecw
Facebook: The Blue Collared Woman
LinkedIn: The Blue Collared Woman
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.
In this episode , we hear from two Directors of the Society of Construction Law Australia. Marianne Rose, Commercial Manager (Mouchel) interview Professor Ian Bailey SC (Wentworth Chambers) to gain insight into some of the key features of the new AS 11000.
Representatives from the Society of Construction Law joined with other leading construction industry associations to draft AS 11000.
AS 11000 introduces an obligation to act in good faith onto the parties, as well as an obligation to give early notice of matters that may lead to a dispute. This is an introduction to a softer approach to contracting, and a move away from strictly combative approaches.
AS 11000 works alongside the new dispute resolution standard, AS 11004 which introduces a radical (for Australia) role for someone to assist the parties to deal with matters as they arise, based on the Hong Kong DRA system which is extraordinarily successful.
AS 11000 limits the length and legalistic nature of the language, with a focus on rights and obligations. ‘Must’ also replaces ‘shall’ in the substance of the clauses to assist in making the clauses more readable.
For more information please head to www.scl.org.au or find us on Twitter @SCLAust
This podcast is for reference purposes only. It does not constitute legal advice and should not be relied upon as such. You should always obtain legal advice about your specific circumstances. The views expressed in these podcasts are the speakers' own. They should not be taken as recommendations of the Society of Construction Law Australia.