Profile

Jaamae has a broad commercial and public law practice, which encompasses equity and trusts, civil fraud and asset recovery claims, contract law, administrative law, constitutional law, corporations law, consumer law, insolvency, and succession law. He has particular expertise in:

• civil fraud and equity and trusts—he is a co-author of The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021); and
• restitution of unjust enrichment—he appeared in the most recent High Court case in that area (Redland City Council v Kozik) and teaches Restitution of Unjust Enrichment on the BCL at the University of Oxford.

His notable recent instructions include:

• appearing for the Attorney-General of Queensland in the High Court of Australia in Redland City Council v Kozik, which raised a number of issues in the law of unjust enrichment relating to the recovery of ultra vires taxes; and
• advising and acting for the court-appointed receivers of the property of the Presbyterian Church of Queensland in relation to proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland and in relation to the receivership more generally.

Jaamae has an international practice. In addition to advising on Australian law and appearing in Australian proceedings, he practises at the English Bar from Brick Court Chambers in London. His notable recent instructions in that capacity include:

• Lonestar Communications Corporation LLC v Kaye [2023] EWHC 421 (Comm); [2023] EWHC 732 (Comm), acting for the successful claimant in the trial of the first civil claim in England and Wales arising out of a “cyber-attack”;
• Maharaj v The Cabinet of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago) [2023] UKPC 17; [2023] 1 WLR 2870, acting for the successful appellant in the Privy Council in an important appeal relating to local government elections in Trinidad and Tobago; and
• BTI 2014 LLC v PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (English High Court, Chancery Division), acting for PwC in the defence of a $600 million auditor’s negligence claim.

With experience working as part of large teams of lawyers and experts as well as acting as sole counsel, his approachability and flexibility is appreciated by a broad mix of government entities, commercial clients and individuals. Jaamae is comfortable working from briefs in electronic or hard copy format (or a hybrid of the two) for advisory work through to complex document-heavy litigation.

He continues to add academic rigour to his practical career experience having authored or co-authored 17 publications in international and domestic peer-reviewed law journals on various topics spanning private and commercial law. He is a member of the author team for Civil Procedure Queensland, together with the Hon Justice Bond of the Supreme Court of Queensland and Ms Sophie Gibson.

Prior to coming to the Bar, Jaamae was the Associate to the Hon Justice Patrick Keane AC at the High Court of Australia, and the Associate to the Hon Justice John Bond and the Hon Justice Peter Lyons at the Supreme Court of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Laws (with First Class Honours and a University Medal) from the University of Queensland, a Master of Laws from the University of Queensland, a Bachelor of Civil Law (with Distinction) from the University of Oxford.