Topic:
60th Anniversary Commercial Law Conference
Speakers:
Hon Justice Peter Brereton, Supreme Court of NSW; Christine Lithgow, Director CLA; Principal, Christine Lithgow & Associates (Chair); Professor Gregory Tolhurst, Editor, Commercial Law Quarterly; University of Sydney Law School; Hon Keith Mason AC KC (Chair); Emeritus Professor John Carter, General Editor, Contract and Commercial Law Review; Consultant, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer; Professor Gerard Ryan, Vice-president, CLA; University of Notre Dame Australia Law School; Hon Fabian Gleeson SC, 9 Selborne Chambers; Jeffrey Goldberger, former lecturer, University of Sydney (Chair); Hon Chief Justice Andrew Bell, Supreme Court of NSW; Sarah Hill, President, CLA; 4 Selborne Chambers (Chair)
Venue:
Recorded at the NSW State Library in October, 2025
Program
Welcome
Sarah Hill, President, Commercial Law Association; 4 Selborne Chambers
Session One
The unconscionable corporation — reading the corporate mind
Hon Justice Peter Brereton, Supreme Court of NSW
Christine Lithgow, Director, CLA; Principal, Christine Lithgow & Associates (Chair)
Session Two
Recurring problems with novations
Professor Gregory Tolhurst, Editor, Commercial Law Quarterly; University of Sydney Law School
Hon Keith Mason AC KC (Chair)
Session Three
The rule in Shevill's Case
Emeritus Professor John Carter, General Editor, Contract and Commercial Law Review; Consultant, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer
Professor Gerard Ryan, Vice-president, CLA; University of Notre Dame Law School
Session Four
Elimination of conditions precedent by repudiation
Hon Fabian Gleeson SC, 9 Selborne Chambers
Jeffrey Goldberger, former lecturer, University of Sydney
Close
Hon Chief Justice Andrew Bell, Supreme Court of NSW