Daniel is an established commercial and common law junior with experience in:

• Class actions
• Commercial including contractual disputes, misleading or deceptive conduct, property, sale of land
• Coronial inquests and inquiries
• Crime compensation applications (s 85B of the Sentencing Act)
• Personal injury including common law and statutory benefits trials
• VCAT civil claims, retail leases, residential tenancies and guardianship applications
• Freezing orders
• Suppression orders

Daniel is a co-author (with John K Arthur and David L Bailey) of Practical Guidance Dispute Resolution in the Supreme Court and County Court on civil procedure and best practice in litigation published by LexisNexis, 2021.

He is a Nationally Accredited Mediator.

Previous experience

Daniel was previously the Class Actions Coordinator at the Supreme Court of Victoria where he worked with Justice Jack Forrest in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfire cases and other judges in class actions proceedings.

He completed his legal internship at Galbally Rolfe and began his legal career as Associate to the Hon. Tony Pagone QC, then head of the Commercial Court at the Supreme Court of Victoria (current President of the International Association of Judges).

Daniel read with Simon McGregor (now Coroner) and his senior mentor is Andrew Keogh SC (now Supreme Court Judge).

A selection of Daniel’s cases

Civil

• Cudlee Creek bushfire class action - Thrower v SA Power Networks & Ors (2022) CIV-21-002144: Supreme Court of Adelaide negligence class action, ongoing (led by Gerard Dalton QC with Claire Nicholson).
• Newlan v Cycling Victoria Inc. & Ors (2021) S ECI 2019 05055: Supreme Court of Victoria motorcycle accident negligence and damages trial – settled (led by Timothy Tobin SC).
• Firth v AAPC Properties Pty Ltd (2021) CI-19-0518: County Court of Victoria WorkCover negligence and damages trial, ongoing (led by Timothy Tobin SC).
• Agricultural farm contractual dispute (2021) (led by William Lye OAM QC).
• Cai v Wimcam Pty Ltd (Civil Claims) [2020] VCAT 476 (24 April 2020): misleading or deceptive conduct claim concerning a lawn mowing franchise.
• Brunning & Anor v Bianco & Anor CI-20-01131: County Court of Victoria promissory estoppel claim.
• C. Jankulovski Pty Ltd v MK-1 Pty Ltd & Ors S ECI 2017 00288: Supreme Court of Victoria oppressive conduct claim (led by Cam Truong QC).

Inquests and inquiries

• NSW coronial inquiry into 2019-20 fires, ongoing: acting for some of the impacted property owners in the Central Region fires.
• Inquest of Dylan Charlton-Smith [2022] COR 2018 6064: acted as Counsel Assisting Coroner Katherine Lorenz concerning a death in prison.
• Inquest of Taniela Ahokava (2020) COR 2016 4157: acted as Amicus Curiae concerning a death from a police shooting.
• Inquest of Hizir Ferman [2019] COR 2016 3497: acted as Counsel Assisting Coroner Rosemary Carlin (now County Court Judge) concerning a death in prison.
• Inquest of Sarah Cafferkey [2016] VicCorC 55: acted for the family of the deceased concerning a murder by the offender shortly after his release on parole (led by Fiona McLeod AO SC with Amy Brennan and Penny Harris).

Criminal & Quasi-criminal

• Paulino v Paulino [2020] VSC 642: for the respondent in a crime compensation application.
• DPP v Gild (2017) CR 14-00883; Gild v The Queen [2018] VSCA 317: County Court jury trial of theft charges (led by Paul Kounnas), and subsequent appeal on conviction to the Court of Appeal (led by Deborah Mandie).

Memberships

• Daniel is an Australian Advocacy Institute accredited advocacy coach and teaches advocacy in the Victorian Bar Readers' Course, the Legal Training Institute of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands Appellate Advocacy Course.
• Immediate past Victorian President and founding committee member – Asian Australian Lawyers Association Inc. 
• Member of the Victorian Bar Council. 
• Secretary General – International Commission of Jurists Victoria (past).
• Board Member – Flemington-Kensington Community Legal Centre (past).

Publications and presentations

• Co-author (with John K Arthur and David L Bailey) of Practical Guidance Dispute Resolution in the Supreme Court and County Court on civil procedure and best practice in litigation published by LexisNexis, 2021.
• Interview with Law in Colour, published 23 September 2020.
• 'Victims of Crime Assistance and Crime Prevention' presented in Vietnam at Ho Chi Minh University of Law on 2 October 2018.
• 'The Advent of E-Litigation: The Paperless Trial' an article published in the Australian Lawyers Alliance, Precedent Journal, March/April 2017 Edition.

LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/danieldominicnguyen