Long Term Contracts

Australia's prosperous energy and resources sector is founded on long term contracts. Long term contracts give rise to a variety of difficult conceptual and practical issues that must be confronted by commercial lawyers and energy and resource professionals on a daily basis, ranging from negotiation and documentation through to interpretation and breach.

Questions as to the operation, nature, and effect of long term contracts will continue to assume central importance to Australia as a whole in circumstances where the Asian economies, particularly China, Japan, and India, are anxious for security of supply in relation to commodities. This book confronts some of the major issues under long term contracts from both legal and practical perspectives.

Kanaga Dharmananda SC (BJuris (Hons); LLB (Hons) (UWA); BCL (Oxon); LLM (Harvard)) is a barrister at Francis Burt Chambers in Perth and a Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Australia, where he teaches International Commercial Arbitration and International Investment in Mineral Resources.

He is also on the editorial board of the AMPLA journal and the ARLR.

Leon Firios (LLB (Hons) BCom (UWA)) is a solicitor at Ashurst in Perth and a tutor and part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Australia. Prior to commencing practice as a solicitor, Leon was the Associate to the Hon. Justice Kenneth Martin of the Supreme Court of Western Australia. Leon is to undertake studies for the LLM at Harvard Law School in 2013-2014.