Profile

Mark practises in commercial and public law. He is regularly briefed to advise and appear in proceedings in a range of areas, including corporations and financial services law, contract disputes, constitutional law and administrative law.

Before coming to the Bar, Mark was an associate to the Hon Justice Crennan AC at the High Court of Australia and a solicitor at Allens.

Mark has degrees in commerce and law from the University of Adelaide and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge. Mark studied at Cambridge as a Cambridge Trust Scholar and received the B R D Clarke Prize for Best Overall Performance in the LLM and the Gareth Jones Prize for Restitution.

Matters in which Mark has been briefed include:

Commercial law

Australian Securities and Investments Commission v La Trobe Financial Asset Management Ltd (Federal Court of Australia) (led by Philip Solomon QC)

Australian Energy Regulator v HWF1 Pty Ltd (Federal Court of Australia) (led by Rowena Orr QC)

Cromwell Corporation Ltd v ARA Real Estate Investors XXI Pte Ltd [2020] FCA 1492 (led by Michael Borsky QC, with Karan Raghavan)

Qantas Airways Ltd v Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (No 3) [2020] FCA 1428 (led by Rowena Orr QC, with Matthew Follett)

In 2018, Mark was part of the team of counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (led by Rowena Orr QC and Michael Hodge QC)

Constitutional law

Minister for Home Affairs v Benbrika (High Court of Australia) (led by Stephen Donaghue QC, Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth)

Palmer v Western Australia (No 4) [2020] FCA 1221 (led by Stephen Donaghue QC, Solicitor-General of the Commonwealth, with Perry Herzfeld and Sarah Zeleznikow)

Meringnage v Interstate Enterprises Pty Ltd [2020] VSCA 30; (2020) 60 VR 361 (with Chris Tran)

BMW Australia Ltd v Brewster [2019] HCA 45; (2019) 94 ALJR 51 (led by Kris Walker QC, Solicitor-General of Victoria)

Spence v Queensland [2019] HCA 15; (2019) 93 ALJR 643 (led by Kris Walker QC, Solicitor-General of Victoria)

Re Lambie [2018] HCA 6; (2018) 92 ALJR 285 (led by Kris Walker QC, Solicitor-General of Victoria)

Brown v Tasmania [2017] HCA 43; (2017) 261 CLR 328 (led by Richard Niall QC, Solicitor-General of Victoria)

Administrative law

AA v Secretary to the Department of Health and Human Services [2020] VSC 400 (unled)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Kane (No 2) [2020] FCA 133 (led by Matt Collins QC, with Mark Polden)

Medical Board of Australia v Kemp [2018] VSCA 168; (2018) 56 VR 51 (led by Jason Pizer QC)

Reardon v Magistrates’ Court of Victoria [2018] VSCA 76; (2018) 56 VR 266 (led by Christopher Caleo QC)

AB & EF v CD [2017] VSC 350; AB v CD & EF [2017] VSCA 338 (led by Sue McNicol QC and Chris Carr)

CFMEU v Commissioner, Australian Federal Police [2015] ACTSC 362; (2015) 305 FLR 143 (led by Peter Morrissey SC)

Mark regularly appears in cases concerning judicial review of decisions made under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth).

From 2016-2020, Mark was a reporter for the Commonwealth Law Reports.

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