Legal Remedies for Wrongful Actions – A Business Risk Management Tool for Torts

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Course Information Date: 25 February 2015 (Wed) Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm Venue: Concorde Hotel Function Room (f.k.a Le Meridien Hotel) Fees: SGD500 (NETT) S$200 (After PIC Grant) *Enjoy up to 400% tax deduction or 60% cash payout under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) scheme for Staff Training. Find out more at https://www.iras.gov.sg/ or email picredit@iras.gov.sg Inclusive of teabreaks and lunch Registration is on a 1st come 1st serve basis. Register early to avoid disappointment. Click here for registration form To register, please contact Ms Elsie Koh @ 9857 8570/ 62789785 or elsie@threesixtytraining.com.sg Unsubscribe If you no longer wish to receive our email - please click unsubscribe here. Thank you. Wrongful Acts – A Business Risk Management Tool for Torts (A 1-day seminar on "legal remedies for wrongful actions") by A/Prof Catherine Tay Ignorance is not a privilege. It is your misfortune. What you do not know can hurt your business. "Torts" means "wrongful acts". If someone has wronged another person, what are his legal rights? The law of torts has the answer. There are various types of torts or wrongful acts that can be committed by persons, companies and their employees and staff. These wrongful acts include negligence, nuisance, trespass, harassment and defamation including the tort of inducing breach of contract and tort of passing off action. Business negligence is a common tort or wrongful acts. Participants will learn the basic torts / wrongful acts and its remedies in this course. Educational video training materials will be used to enhance learning. Negligence duty of care breach of duty: standard of care causation and intervening acts foreseeable harm omission in rescue cases control of land & dangerous things economic loss & nervous shock cases precautions & warnings children, sport egg shell skull rule defective product liability damage must be foreseeable and too 'remote' Nuisance private nuisance, public nuisance harassment interference with enjoyment of land duration of interference abnormal sensitivity public benefit malice & negligence: who can sue? Who is liable? defences, damages, injunction and abatement public health & public rights protected convenience: obstruction of highway safety: dangers to highway & roads Employers' Liability proper plant & equipment competent staff safe place of work: Workplace, Safety & Health Laws SARS, infection control & the law defences volenti non fit injuria contributory negligence Dangerous Premises liability of occupiers to visitors & trespassers independant contractors warning & acceptance of risk exclusion of liability landlords & tenants Strict Liability rule in Rylands v Fletcher dangerous things & non-natural use escape: who can sue? defences, consent, damages fire, animals vicarious liability, vehicle drivers liability for independent contractors statutory duties & common law duties master & servant Defective Products manufacturers' duty intermediate inspection causation & contributory negligence warning & continuing duty defects, type of loss defences & limitations development risks & consumer protection Case-study The Slim 10 case Trespass to Land airspace & subsoil interference & justification rights of entry possession: who can sue? trespass and nuisance remedies available Trespass to the Person battery & assault criminal injuries false imprisonment defences: consent, lawful arrest & self defence malicious prosecution malice & damage Defamation what is defamatory? libel & slander publication & reference to plaintiff truth & justification absolute privilege & qualified privilege what is "fair comment"? matters of public interest malice Contracts Restraining Work Elsewhere non-competition clauses inducing Breach of Contract competitors Defences and Limitation voluntary assumption of risk knowledge, agreement excluding liability, illegality inevitable accident & necessity standard of care – children, the infirm, workmen, emergency personal injuries & death persons under a disability Remedies and Death types of damages: general and special monetary awards medical and other expenses loss of earnings & salary pain & suffering loss of amenity damage to property mitigation & interest on damage injunction fatal accidents & death Course material will be provided and would serve as an invaluable reference guide. To enhance learning, formal lectures on principles of law and practice followed by case-studies and case-presentations and educational video presentation to reinforce the practical applications of the law. For Whom This course does not require you to have legal knowledge. It is for human resource managers and business executives, company directors and managers, business managers and executives, and ANYONE interested to know about torts/wrongful acts and the remedies available. 360 Degrees Trainer Profile Associate Professor Catherine Tay Swee Kian Assoc Prof. Catherine Tay lectures law at National University of Singapore, NUS Business School in the Department of Strategy and Policy; and medical law and business law at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS; as well as dental law and ethics at the Faculty of Dentistry, NUS. A/Prof Tay is an Associate Professorial Fellow, NUS. She is a Barrister-at-Law, of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom and an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore. She was called to the English Bar in 1978 and the Singapore Bar in 1980. She is an Associate Director, Bernard & Rada Law Corp. She is an author of several law books including 'Contract Law'; 'Directors' Duties and Liabilities'; 'Business Law' ; E-Commerce Law; Intellectual Property Laws and 'Medical Negligence'. She has published several legal articles in prestigious international and local law journals. A/Prof Tay studied law at Queen Mary College, University of London and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree and a Master of Laws degree, in which she specialized in Company, Shipping, Insurance and Marine Insurance laws. She did her pupillage under the Honorable Lady Mary Hogg in London and returned to Singapore in the law firm of Rodyk & Davidson. A/Prof Tay is also a member of the Centralized Institutional Review Board – Ethics sub committee of SingHealth hospitals and polyclinics; and is also a member of the National Healthcare Group Domain Specific Review Board / Research Ethics committee tasked to review the scientific and ethical aspects of research protocols. A/Prof Tay is an examiner on law and medical law subjects for a number of professional bodies and universities in Singapore and overseas. She was an external examiner in medical law at the Law Faculty of the University of Hong Kong. She conducts in-house training seminars and workshops for hospitals, banks, statutory boards, hotels, commercial firms and companies, clubs and associations. She is also a legal consultant appearing on many television segments. A/Prof Tay was a committee member of the editorial board of the Singapore Accountant Journal, Journal of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore and the (United Kingdom) The Company Lawyer. She was on the Board of Overseas Editors for the (United Kingdom) Journal of Financial Crime, an official publication of the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. She has presented conference papers at many conferences and seminars on Business Law, Medical Law, and Company and insolvency Laws overseas and in Singapore. A/Prof Tay has published numerous articles in international peer reviewed journals such as BIOETHICS, the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine; the (United Kingdom) Journal of Business Law, (United Kingdom) Business Law Review; the (United Kingdom) Company Lawyer and the (United Kingdom) Insolvency Law & Practice, (United Kingdom) Tolley's professional negligence, (United Kingdom) Tottel's Professional Negligence, the Singapore Dental Journal; the Malayan Law Journal; the Securities Industry Review and The Singapore Law Gazette. She received the 2008 Sinagapore Medical Journal Recognition Award for reviewing with Distinction for consistently submitting timely, detailed and scholarly reviews. A/Prof Tay cohosted a weekly talk show "In the Eyes of the Law" on NTUC RadioHeart and was a consultant to MediaCorp television series on consumer laws "What's Your Case" on TV Channel 5. In House Customized Training We deliver customized designed courses that are tailored to your organizational needs. Our professional trainers are domain experts with extensive international experience. Do contact us today @ 6278 9785/ training@360degrees.com.sg for no-obligation training needs assessment, we will work in partnership with you to identify needs, develop training and find instructors that best fit your business environment.

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