2 Days Business Law
(A 2-day seminar on laws affecting Companies/Firms for Managers & Directors) Introduction Ignorance of the law is no defence. You do not need to have legal knowledge to attend this course. This course provides participants with a working knowledge of business laws so that they can conduct their business effectively within the laws. Get a thorough understanding of the principles of laws affecting your businesses such as company laws, workplace, safety and health laws, insolvency laws and learn how to protect your ideas, products, trade-marks, copyrights and trade secrets including business ethics and corporate social responsibility from the author/lecturer herself in this course. Participants will also benefit from the interactive sessions with the lecturer. Case-studies and case presentations will be discussed. Video training materials will be used to enhance learning. Course Outline: Singapore Legal System - civil and criminal laws
- court system
- mediation & arbitration
- execution of judgment debts
Managing Business Contracts - anti-competitive agreements
- interpretation of contractual terms
- managing contracts and termination
- breach of contracts
- liquidated damages and penalties
Intellectual Property Rights Management - protecting your business ideas and inventions
- patents, copyrights, trade marks and service marks
- managing trade secrets and law of confidence
Managing Company with Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility - directors duties & liabilities
- corporate governance
Business Torts – wrongful acts - negligence
- employer's liability
- vicarious liability
- occupier's liability & dangerous premises
- product liability
- inducing breach of contract
- contract restraining work elsewhere
- tort of passing off
Debt Collection & Recovery Procedures - letter of demand
- write of seizure and sale
- bankruptcy and winding-up
- company receivership
- judicial management of companies
Who Should Attend? It is for businessmen, company directors, business managers, financial controllers, marketing managers & executives, business advisers, bankers, consultants, company secretaries, administrators, credit executives, finance and operation executives and ANYONE interested in Business Laws 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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