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Contract Drafting Training

SAQA US AATICD-0199 | NQF 5 | Credits 10 | Duration 5 Days
From $913 per delegate

Description

This course equips learners with the skills to draft clear, legally sound contracts for various business contexts. Participants will understand contract law principles, structure, and language to create enforceable agreements. The focus is on practical drafting techniques and risk mitigation.

Learning Outcomes

  • Apply principles of contract law to draft legally enforceable agreements.
  • Analyze contract clauses to identify potential risks and ambiguities.
  • Evaluate different contract structures for suitability in specific business scenarios.
  • Design clear and concise contract provisions that reflect the parties' intentions.
  • Implement best practices for contract review and revision processes.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in drafting common contract types such as service agreements, NDAs, and sales contracts.

Target Audience

This course is designed for legal professionals, contract managers, business owners, and anyone involved in drafting or reviewing contracts in a corporate environment.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment

Course Outline

Day 1: Foundations of Contract Law and Drafting Principles

Objectives:
• Understand the essential elements of a valid contract under South African law.
• Identify the sources of contract law and the role of common law and legislation.
• Distinguish between different types of contracts and their applications.
• Apply fundamental principles of clarity, precision, and structure in drafting.
• Recognise common pitfalls and ambiguities in contract language.

Topics:
• Overview of South African contract law: requirements for a valid contract.
• Sources of contract law: common law, statute, and constitutional influences.
• Classification of contracts: express, implied, bilateral, unilateral, etc.
• Key principles: offer and acceptance, consideration, intention to create legal relations.
• Structure of a contract: preamble, definitions, operative clauses, schedules.
• Drafting for clarity: plain language, avoiding ambiguity, use of defined terms.
• Common drafting errors: vague language, inconsistent terminology, missing elements.

Day 2: Core Contractual Clauses and Drafting Techniques

Objectives:
• Draft key operative clauses such as payment, delivery, and performance obligations.
• Construct effective representations, warranties, and indemnity clauses.
• Apply techniques for conditional clauses and termination provisions.
• Use boilerplate clauses appropriately (force majeure, entire agreement, governing law).
• Ensure internal consistency and cross-referencing within the contract.

Topics:
• Operative clauses: obligations, payment terms, delivery schedules.
• Representations and warranties: scope, limitations, and drafting considerations.
• Indemnity clauses: types, drafting, and risk allocation.
• Conditional clauses: conditions precedent and subsequent.
• Termination clauses: grounds, notice periods, consequences.
• Boilerplate clauses: force majeure, entire agreement, amendment, waiver.
• Cross-referencing and internal consistency.
• Practical drafting exercise: building a simple contract.

Day 3: Advanced Clauses and Risk Management

Objectives:
• Draft limitation of liability and exclusion clauses with legal awareness.
• Understand and draft dispute resolution clauses (arbitration, mediation, litigation).
• Address confidentiality and non-disclosure obligations effectively.
• Incorporate intellectual property provisions where relevant.
• Manage risk through insurance, guarantees, and performance bonds.

Topics:
• Limitation of liability: caps, exclusions, and enforceability.
• Exclusion clauses: drafting to avoid unfairness under the CPA.
• Dispute resolution: arbitration, mediation, jurisdiction, and choice of law.
• Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
• Intellectual property clauses: ownership, licensing, and warranties.
• Risk management: insurance requirements, guarantees, performance bonds.
• Case study: analysing a complex contract clause.
• Drafting exercise: risk allocation in a commercial agreement.

Day 4: Specialised Contracts and Regulatory Compliance

Objectives:
• Draft contracts for specific contexts: sale of goods, services, employment, and leases.
• Understand the impact of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) on consumer contracts.
• Comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in data-related clauses.
• Address electronic contracting and signatures under the ECTA.
• Integrate industry-specific regulations into contract drafting.

Topics:
• Sale of goods: terms, delivery, risk, and retention of title.
• Service agreements: scope, service levels, and performance metrics.
• Employment contracts: essential terms, restraint of trade, and confidentiality.
• Lease agreements: rental, maintenance, and termination.
• Consumer Protection Act: plain language, unfair terms, cooling-off rights.
• POPIA compliance: data processing clauses and consent.
• Electronic Communications and Transactions Act: electronic signatures and contracts.
• Industry-specific regulations: e.g., construction, IT, financial services.

Day 5: Negotiation, Execution, and Post-Execution Management

Objectives:
• Use drafting techniques to support effective contract negotiation.
• Understand execution formalities: signatures, attestation, and notarisation.
• Manage contract amendments and variations properly.
• Address breach, remedies, and enforcement mechanisms.
• Implement contract management practices for ongoing compliance.

Topics:
• Drafting for negotiation: options, fallback positions, and redlining.
• Execution formalities: wet signatures, digital signatures, witnesses.
• Contract amendments: variation clauses, written amendments.
• Breach of contract: types, remedies, specific performance, damages.
• Enforcement: arbitration awards, court orders, and collection.
• Contract management: monitoring obligations, renewals, and termination.
• Practical exercise: negotiating and finalising a contract.
• Course review and assessment.

Practicals

16 hours of practicals To be conducted online or on-campus or in-house
Overview

Practical sessions are integral to this course, allowing learners to apply drafting principles in realistic scenarios. Through supervised exercises, participants will draft, review, and refine contract clauses, culminating in a complete contract negotiation simulation.

Practical Activities
  • Drafting a Simple Contract — Learners draft a basic service agreement from a template, incorporating essential clauses and defined terms. (4h)
  • Advanced Clause Workshop — Participants draft limitation of liability, indemnity, and dispute resolution clauses for a given scenario. (4h)
  • Regulatory Compliance Drafting — Learners draft a consumer contract compliant with the CPA and a data processing clause under POPIA. (4h)
  • Contract Negotiation Simulation — Teams negotiate and finalise a contract, applying drafting techniques and managing amendments in real-time. (4h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total
Component Out of Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored) 100% 30%
Daily Average (multiple choice) 100% 20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice) 100% 50%
Final Total 100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

Awarded to delegates who achieve an overall mark of 50% or higher on the Final Total (Practicals 30% + Daily Average 20% + Final Test 50%).

How it works
  • Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
  • Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
  • You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
  • If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.
Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

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