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Construction Contracts and Sustainability Goals: Front-End and Back-End Issues
A highly commended entry in the 2025 Brooking Prize by Jacob G Warren.
The prevention principle, certainty and equity of outcomes and the unilateral power to extend time.
A commended entry in the 2025 Brooking Prize by Ian Thorpe.
The prevention principle and extending the contractual date for completion – has the older jurisprudence been overturned or overlooked?
A commended paper in the 2025 Brooking Prize by Ian Thorpe.
Liquidated Damages in Transition: Consumer Protection, Commercial Certainty, and the Future of the Penalties Doctrine in Australian Construction Law.
A highly commended paper in the student division of the 2025 Brooking Prize by Carl Caesar Boehme.
The Stynes Address 2025 - The role of the legal profession in regulatory failure and reform
The 2025 Stynes Address paper - presented by Bronwyn Weir - The role of the legal profession in regulatory failure and reform.
The Stynes Address 2025 - The role of the legal profession in regulatory failure and reform (video)
Video recording of the 2025 Stynes Address presented by Bronwyn Weir - The role of the legal profession in regulatory failure and reform.
Notice of Special General Meeting
Notice of Special General Meeting of the Society of Construction Law Australia to be held on 18 November 2025.
Contracts Don't Dictate Culture: An Australian Perspective
PDF of presentation by Caroline Beaumaris and Jeanette Barbaro at the European SCL Conference 2025
2025 SoCLA Chair's Report
Report of Caroline Beaumaris, SoCLA Chair, for the 2025 Annual General Meeting to be held on 7 August 2025.