Wai Pin Law
Law Clerk
Wai Pin’s Specialties
Wai Pin joined Cartland Law as a law clerk in September 2022. He is currently assisting Joseph and Llewellyn with preparing legal documents and conducting research in relation to trust and taxation law.Â
Before joining Cartland Law, Wai Pin worked as a law clerk then law graduate in a small sized law firm in Adelaide for 9 months. Wai Pin finished his Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice with University of Adelaide in February 2022 and admitted to the Supreme Court of South Australia in March 2022.
Wai Pin Law’s Articles
Prediction: Sustaining, Disruptive and Revolutionary Innovation
As COVID forces disruption upon the world there is an opportunity for extensive positive change including in the law. Courts that have resisted online document submission and video conferencing have adopted them virtually overnight. Firms that could not get away from printing everything on the file have suddenly adopted cloud storage and filing. A vast number of meetings that could have been emails have become, well, emails.Â
COVID, Rent, Sharing Losses and Systemic Risk
Our contracts and the law surrounding them do not account for systemic risk. I believe that the common law has done a good job of balancing risks between parties (or rather a not-terrible job: it is difficult to determine whether law is truly good, merely whether there could be worse). Parties are generally held to their obligations, and there are limited situation that they can get out of them such as misrepresentation, fraud, implied terms, unconscionability, duress, frustration and undue influence to name a few.Â
Yet Another End of Billable-hours Story
Last week I was reading Yet Another End of Billable-hour Story “YAE-BS” and decided the time is ripe for change in the legal industry: we need to see the end of YAE-BS. Â
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