AREAS OF PRACTICE:
Commercial litigation including:
corporations, equity, insurance, professional negligence, property law and trade practices.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
Vice President Australian Bar Association
Member of the Victorian Bar Council 1995 -
Immediate Past Chairman of Victorian Bar Council
Chair of Insurance & Professional Negligence Section of the Commercial Bar Association 2002-2007.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES & SEMINARS:
“Clearing the Air on Conflict”-(1986) 60 LIJ 780
“Ethical Restraints on Interviewing Witnesses” (1990) 64 LIJ 910
“Misleading Professionals”-(1991) 65 LIJ 508;
“Avoiding Unfair Guarantees”-The Litigation Lawyer; December 1991
“Businessman’s Guide to the Privacy Act” Australian Law News; September 1992
“Disputes Over Guarantees”- Law Institute of Victoria 5 November 1992
“Liability of Municipalities and Statutory Authorities after Pyrenees” Australian Insurance Law Association 31 March 1998.
“Recent Developments in the High Court of Australia - The Duty to take Positive Action” Building Dispute Practitioners Society 20 May 1998
“Negligence as a cause of action in Commercial Litigation” - Law Institute Commercial Litigation Study Group 17 June 1998
“Pleading the Truth” - Media & Arts Law Review 2000 Volume 5 p.281
“Proportionate Liability in Practice” Law Institute of Victoria 17 May 2006
“Pleading Proportionality” Victorian Bar 30 May 2006
“Proportionate Liability: Its Impact on Litigation Practice” Television Education Network – October 2006
“Liability of Corporate Directors and Employees” - Law Institute Commercial Litigation Specialist Study Group 23/3/07
"Employee liability under the Fair Trading Act " - Australian Professional Indemnity Group 26/4/07
FORMER POSITIONS HELD AND PRIZES:
Victorian Solicitors Prize Winner - 1979
Member of the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria 1985-87
Member of the Executive of the Law Institute of Victoria 1986-87
Member of Chief Justices Law Reform Committee
Member of Law Institute of Victoria - Specialisation Board
Inaugural Chairman of Litigation Specialisation Advisory Committee
Member of Bar Ethics Committee 1999-2003
Member of the Executive of the Victorian Bar Council 2005 - 2008
ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FORMERLY HELD :
Inaugural Chairman of the Shepparton Community Health Service 1991--92
Member of the Board of the Goulburn Valley College of TAFE 1992
President Goulburn Valley Law Association 1985 - 1987
Member of LIV Ethics Committee
Member of LIV Interprofessional Partnerships Committee
Member of LIV Litigious Costs Committee
Chairman LIV Conflicts of Interests Ad Hoc Committee
Member of Solicitors’ Prize Committee
Chairman LIV Articles Ad Hoc Committee
LIV representative on County Court rules Committee and Supreme Court Rules Committee
LIV representative Medico-Legal Joint Standing Committee
Member of Board of Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
Representative and Chairman of Legal Aid Duty Solicitor Qualification Committee
REPORTED CASES
HIGH COURT
1. Sali v S P C Ltd (1993) 67 ALJR 515
2. Sali v S P C Ltd (1993) 116 ALR 625; (1993) 67 ALJR 841
3. Pyrenees Shire Council v Day (1998) 192 CLR 330; (1998) 151 ALR 147; (1998) AustTortsR ¶81-456; (1998) 72 ALJR 152; (1998) 96 LGERA 330
4. Houghton v Arms (2006) 225 CLR 553; (2006) 231 ALR 534; (2006) 81 ALJR 466; (2007) ASAL 55-164; (2007) ATPR 42-143
APPEAL COURTS
5. Office Concepts Pty Ltd v Telford Building Systems Pty Ltd (1994) 8 ANZInsCas ¶61-219; (1994) 176 LSJS 120
6. Doherty v Murphy [1996] 2 VR 553
7. Ripon Shire Council v Day (1996) AustTortsR ¶81-381; (1996) 89 LGERA 391; [1997] 1 VR 218
8. David Syme & Co Ltd v Hore-Lacy (2000) 1 VR 667; (2000) ADefR 53-055
9. State Bank of New South Wales and Another v Brown (as liq of Parkston Ltd (in liq)) and Others (2001) 19 ACLC 1415; (2001) 38 ACSR 715
10. McGee O'Callaghan Gill Pty Ltd v Deacons Graham & James [2001] ANZ ConvR 614
11. Manren Ltd v Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Australia Ltd (2003) 12 ANZ Ins Cas 61-56
12. Suncorp Metway Insurance Ltd v Landridge Pty Ltd (2005) 13 ANZ Ins Cas 61-660; [2005] 12 VR 290
13. Arms v Houghton (2006) 151 FCR 46
14. Husain v O & S Holdings (Vic) Pty Ltd (2006) Aust Contract R 90-230
15. NIML Ltd v MAN Financial Australia Ltd (2006) 15 VR 156
16. Donis v Donis (2007) V ConvR 54-737
STATE SUPREME & FEDERAL COURTS
17. Bell v Burton (1993) 12 ACSR 325; (1993) 12 ACLC 1037
18. Office Concepts Pty Ltd v Telford Building Systems Pty Ltd (1994) 8 ANZInsCas ¶61-219; (1994) 176 LSJS 120
19. Chiodo v Murphy & Doherty (1995) VConvR ¶54-531; [1996] ANZConvR 160
20. Bunning Building Supplies Pty Ltd v Sgro (1995) VConvR ¶54-535
21. Guss v Magistrates Court of Victoria [1998] 2 VR 11
22. Templestowe Developments Pty Ltd v City of Boroondara (1995) 92 LGERA 221; [1997] 1 VR 504
23. ANZ Bank v Dunosa Pty Ltd & Vissaritis [1995] ANZConvR 86
24. Gugliotti v Commercial Union Assurance Co of Australia (1992) 7 ANZInsCas ¶61-104; (1992) 15 MVR 463
25. Askew, The Estate of; & Seventh Granite Pty Ltd v Delaton Pty Ltd & Askew (1996) 130 FLR 207
26. Australian Associated Motor Insurers Ltd v To (1999) 151 FLR 384
27. Re Russell (in his capacity as liquidator) Parkston Ltd (in liquidation) (2000) 35 ACSR 367 (NSW)
28. Application of Parkston Ltd (in liquidation) (2000) 35 ACSR 144 (NSW)
29. Hore-Lacy v David Syme & Co Ltd (1998) ADefR 53-010
30. Cadoks Pty Ltd v Wallace Westley & Vigar Pty Ltd (2000) 2 VR 569
31. Simplot Australia Pty Ltd t/as Edgell-Birds Eye v Comm Nettlefold (Constituting the Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Comm) (1996) 139 ALR 371; (1996) 69 FCR 90.[1996] 2 VR 553
32. Seifert v Two Point Pty Ltd [2002] ANZ ConvR 245.
33. Toomey v Scolaro's Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd (in liq) (No 5) (2002) 12 ANZ Ins Cas 61-519
34. Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v Murray (2002) 121 FCR 428; (2002) ATPR 41-899
35. LT King Pty Ltd t/as Yarra Valley Financial Services v Daniel Besser & White Cleland Pty Ltd (2002) 172 FLR 140
36. Deputy Commissioner of Taxation v Rathner (2004) 211 ALR 316; (2004) 50 ACSR 533; (2004) 22 ACLC 1363; (2004) 57 ATR 185
37. Zeke Services Pty Ltd v Traffic Technologies Ltd - [2005] 2 Qd R 563
38. Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Leahy Petroleum Pty Ltd (No 2) and Others (2005) 215 ALR 281