Techniques for Drafting and Analyzing Commercial Contracts in English

Contract is one of the strong evidence; it has a remarkably important role in public relations. A contract is a proof that there is a legal act happening in the society. Meanwhile, the need for evidence of contract in business relation is sharply increasing in line with the growing demand for legal certainty in a variety of economic and social relation. That is mainly because with an agreement made and poured in a contract, it will be easier to determine the rights and obligations of the parties so that the parties could avoid any dispute that might happened.

A business contract is part of the corporation strategy that takes an important role. This is because every business contracts contain legal snares and legal risks that must be understood as the corporation strategy in their effort to meet their own needs. Then, the question arises of what are the legal snares and legal risks that might happen? Furthermore, how can we analyze the legal snares and the legal risks?

The skills for reviewing and drafting a legitimate business contract are part of the risk management in the business activities. It should be understood by every drafters of the said contract. The legal reasoning of every clause in the contract should be an ingrained skill within every contract drafters.

In order to obtain a correct and comprehensive understanding of the things that need to be noted in the drafting of a contract and the legal consequences that might arise from it, www.hukumonline.com has conducted training on “Techniques for Drafting and Analyzing Contracts” on May 19, 2011. The training received positive responses, and then it created a demand to create a similar event, but for the drafting and analyzing of the contracts in English.

It is true indeed that along with the development, we could find legal documents presented in English everywhere. Given that a legal document or contractual agreement is very important to both parties because of its binding nature, then the understanding and knowledge of legal aspects and the drafting techniques is a definite need. What is contained in a legal document is a right and obligation between the parties who made it. Therefore, a good understanding and knowledge on the aspects of legal documents and its drafting techniques in English are essential so that the contents or substances contained in the legal documents in accordance with applicable laws and provides the most benefits for both parties.

For drafting the contracts in English, it is important to have a certain skill, because there are phrases in English that have different meanings when simply translated into Indonesian. In addition, there are many legal terms that might not be familiar, so that the background of law education and the ability in English do not necessarily guarantee that a person can make a correct contract in English. Therefore, www.hukumonline.com organized the training on "Techniques for Drafting and Analyzing Commercial Contracts in English" on November 14, 2012, with Dr. Mohammed Idwan Ganie from Lubis Ganie Surowidjojo as our trainer.

The event was held at Mezzanine Ballroom, Aryaduta Hotel Jakarta.

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