Profile
Year of Call:
2025Overview
With over 10 years’ experience, Dayle has specific expertise in commercial litigation and arbitration, regulatory proceedings and investigations, and construction law.
Prior to being called to the Bar, Dayle was a Senior Specialist at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, where she advised on complex financial services litigation primarily in the Federal Court.
Dayle was admitted as a solicitor in 2014 and commenced her career at King & Wood Mallesons, where she advised on building and construction disputes conducted in the Queensland Supreme Court or through arbitration (domestic and international).
Dayle holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws with Distinction from the University of Cambridge.
Experience
Dayle’s experience as a solicitor includes:
> Litigation against companies involving allegations of false, misleading or deceptive conduct in the provision of financial services and the imposition of pecuniary penalties
> Litigation against a superannuation company for failure to comply with internal dispute resolution procedures
> Litigation, both civil and criminal, against individuals and companies involving misuse of investor funds
> Administrative action to cancel Australian Financial Services Licences and ban financial advisers
> Applications to wind up companies, obtain freezing orders and impose travel restraints
> Application for a court inquiry into the conduct of a Registered Liquidator
> Acting for John Holland in a private arbitration involving repudiation, extension of time and variation claims
> Acting for NPMC in a private arbitration involving misleading or deceptive conduct claims
> Acting for Thiess in the Supreme Court of Queensland involving breach of contract claims
Member
Bar Association of Queensland
Career
2025 Barrister
2018 - 2025 Senior Specialist, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
2014 - 2018 Solicitor, King & Wood Mallesons
Education
2024 Masters of Law (Class 1), University of Cambridge
2013 Bachelor of Laws (Hons I), University of Queensland
2013 Bachelor of Arts (International Relations), University of Queensland
Awards
2024 Johnson Prize for Postgraduate Studies (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge)
2013 Banking & Financial Services Law Association Scholarship
2023 Una Prentice Award for highest overall marks for female law graduate (University of Queensland)
2011 Walter Harrison Prize (University of Queensland)
2011 Alan Robb Memorial Prize (University of Queensland)
2008 - 2013 Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement (University of Queensland)
