Description

This seminar will consider two different aspects of ‘unconscionability’. It will review recent developments in the Commonwealth on the doctrine of unconscionability, looking particularly at BOK v BOL (Singapore) and Thorne v Kennedy (Australia). It will also discuss the way that Singapore courts have applied unconscionability as an exception to the autonomy principle when granting injunctions to restrain calls on performance bonds, and the contractual devices adopted by applicants and beneficiaries to improve their position.

About The Speaker
Dr Wayne Courtney is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore and a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School. He researches in the areas of contract and commercial law. He is the author of two books (Contractual Indemnities and The Modern Contract of Guarantee) and numerous articles. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Contract Law and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice. His work is regularly cited by courts around the Commonwealth.
Dora Neo is an Associate Professor and the founding director of the Centre for Banking & Finance at the Faculty of Law, NUS as well as Director of its LLM (Corporate and Financial Services Law). She is coauthor of Ellinger and Neo, The Law and Practice of Documentary Letters of Credit and teaches ‘Contract’ and ‘Credit & Security’.