Profile

Experience as junior counsel includes:

Regulatory and law enforcement work

> Acting and appearing for a respondent company and individuals in an Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) investigation and proceedings in respect of alleged cartel conduct.

> Acting and appearing for the ACCC in regulatory proceedings resulting in the award of a $5 million civil penalty against activewear company Lorna Jane.

> Appearing for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) in civil proceedings commenced by white collar crime defendants, including Clive Palmer and Palmer Leisure Coolum Pty Ltd in the Supreme Court of Queensland, the Queensland Court of Appeal, the High Court of Australia and in the Federal Court of Australia.

> Appearing (led and unled) for Commonwealth agencies including the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Federal Police and the Department of Home Affairs in relation to public interest immunity and associated claims (including in respect of suppression and non-publication orders) in various criminal proceedings including charges relating to foreign bribery.

> Representing and advising companies, individuals and regulators (led and unled) in the course of regulatory investigations, including examinations and the exercise of other compulsory powers.

Public law

> Acting, appearing and advising applicants and State and Federal government departments and agencies and local governments in respect of the judicial review of government decision-making, including most recently in respect of decisions made under the Mineral Resources Act 1989, Planning Act 2016, Nature Conservation (Protected Areas Management) Regulation 2017, Recreation Areas Management Act 2006 and the Torres Strait Islander Land Act 1991.

> Acting, appearing and advising government and private parties in relation to various claims made under the Human Rights Act 2019, including acting and appearing for the Brisbane City Council in a s 222 Justices Act 1886  appeal raising human rights and associated constitutional arguments.

> Acting and appearing for applicants and respondents in health law regulatory matters including in a merits review, judicial review and constitutional context.

Commercial law 

> Acting and appearing for CS Energy in a class action alleging contraventions of s 46 (misuse of market power) of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

> Acting and appearing (led and unled) in various contract and insurance claims in the Supreme Court of Queensland and the Federal Court of Australia.

> Acting for plaintiffs in a complex multiparty insurance claim in respect of LNG contract works in central Queensland.

> Acting and appearing in oppression proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia under the Corporations Act 2001.

Commissions and inquiries

> Acting as Counsel Assisting in the inquest into the death of Matthew Riley Baxter.

> Acting as Counsel Assisting in the Robodebt Royal Commission, information available at: https://robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au/.

> Acting for witnesses in the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

> Engaged as Legal Editor at the Commission of Inquiry into Paradise Dam.

Native Title

> Acting for the State of Queensland in a North Queensland native title proceeding affecting various pastoral interests.

> Acting for the State of Queensland in complex native title proceedings involving overlapping claims and the intersection of the interests of multiple States.

> Advising (led and unled) the State of Queensland and Native Title Representative Bodies.