James practises in all areas of commercial law. He has advised and appeared at trial and on appeal in proceedings involving contractual disputes, competition and consumer law, corporate insolvency and property law. James has substantial experience advising on questions of private international law and the common law restraint of trade doctrine. He also has public and regulatory law experience, having acted for and against commonwealth and state regulators and in Royal Commissions.
Before coming to the bar, James was a solicitor in the commercial litigation group of Herbert Smith Freehills. He holds a LLM from the University of Cambridge, having attained first class honours at an undergraduate level in Australia. His graduate studies primarily concerned private international law, restitution and statutory interpretation.
Examples of his recent work include:
James was previously an associate to the Honourable Justice Sifris of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He read with Dr Oren Bigos QC and his senior mentor is Philip Solomon QC.
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