Contract Breach, Termination & Damages - Getting Your Tactics Right

Introduction

Termination provisions represent critical junctures in commercial relationships where significant value is at stake, making this webinar essential for practitioners navigating the legal landscape of bringing or defending damages claims in contract.

Claiming parties need to understand how to maximise the strengths of their case through selecting the appropriate termination right and assessing damages. Defending parties need to be alive to looking at possible repudiation arguments and how to defend inflated damages claims.

By viewing this webinar, you will gain practical insights on areas such as termination rights under common law and contract law, material breach and the impact this has on damages claims. It will apply the key principles to real-life examples, providing actionable insights.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• How to distinguish between common law termination rights and contractual termination provisions, and the critical implications for recoverable damages
• Strategies for defining ‘material breach’ with precision to avoid uncertainty and disputes
• Checking whether the contract has excluded common law termination rights
• Spotting a defective termination and understanding when it might lead to a repudiatory breach
• Practical exercises demonstrating the application of termination and damages to realistic scenarios

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 12th February 2026

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