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Recent experience as a barrister includes:

• Acting on behalf of insurers and there insureds and also plaintiffs in professional indemnity claims involving industries such as accounting, legal, livestock nutritionists, surveying, engineering;
• Acting on behalf of a group of property owners in land valuation appeals against the Queensland Valuer General;
• Acting on behalf of insurers, their insureds and also plaintiffs in life insurance matters;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds in various public and product liability claims including claims involving construction sites, mining sites, shopping centres, motor vehicles, boats, amusement rides;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds in various claims involving motor vehicle accidents;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds practitioners and health services in various medical negligence claims;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds in various coronial inquests involving fatalities caused by diving, electrocution and domestic violence;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds, with Kings Counsel, in proceedings concerning the termination of an employment contract and allegations of conspiracy, reprisal and defamation;
• Acting on behalf of insurers and their insureds in various property damage claims;
• Acting with Kings Counsel in professional disciplinary proceedings before the Valuers Registration Board of Queensland;
• Acting on behalf of employees and employers in various employment related disputes litigated in the Fair Work Commission and Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, including claims of contravention of general protections, underpayment and for stop bullying orders;
• Acting on behalf of the Workers’ Compensation Regulator in relation to various workers’ compensation disputes; and
• Acting on behalf of insurers, their insureds, defendants and plaintiffs in historic child abuse claims.

Prior to being called to the bar, Kristi practised as a solicitor and acted for local and international insurers handling professional indemnity, D & O, financial lines, personal injury, workers’ compensation and life insurance claims and also advising insurers on issues of policy interpretation and indemnity.