Profile

Florence Chen has a commercial practice with particular expertise in the areas of banking and finance, building and construction, contracts, insolvency, property, succession and tax litigation.

She acts in a wide spectrum of complex commercial disputes in both State and Federal jurisdictions, recent examples of which include: Court of Appeal matters involving oral contracts and unreasonable director related transactions; and various trials involving trusts, allegations of breaches of directors duties, unfair preference payments, public examinations, family provision applications, property law disputes, commercial leasing disputes, and payroll tax.

Prior to coming to the Bar, she was the associate to the Honourable Justice Fryberg for two years and the Honourable Justice Jackson for one year.

She currently tutors Civil Procedure at the University of Queensland.