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Since his retirement from the Federal Court of Australia in August 2022, having served on that Court for 17 years, and Acting Chief Justice on four occasions, Mr Greenwood has undertaken work in the fields of Arbitration, Investor-State disputes under International Treaties, Expert Determinations, Commissions of Inquiry and special commercial advisory projects both in Australia and in the Middle East.

Mr Greenwood heard and determined cases in all of the Court’s National Practice Areas with a special emphasis on corporations, competition, intellectual Property and constitutional and tax matters. Apart from the Court matters, Mr Greenwood was also the President of the Australian Copyright Tribunal and determined a number of significant matters including the controversial question of the methodology for determining the fees payable by users for access to digital media content.

Mr Greenwood was also a Presidential Member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal

Mr Greenwood is a Fellow of both the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA) and the Resolution Institute of Australia. Mr Greenwood is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He is a member of the Advisory Board for the Commonwealth Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (PWSS) having been appointed to that Board by the Commonwealth Special Minister of State. The PWSS was established to assist in improving behavioural standards within the Parliamentary precinct arising out of the Brittney Higgins matter.

Mr Greenwood has advised on a large-scale Investor-State dispute in The Hague (a claim in. excess of $AUD 30Bn) under an international treaty (see Mr Geenwood’s paper to the RAIF Conference in November 2024). He was retained to advice on the governance and probity issues arising out of the PwC controversy with the Federal Department of Treasury and he has participated as  Panel member in a significant Commission of Inquiry. He is also an advisor on a large-scale State sponsored regulatory project in the Middle East.

Apart from these things, Mr Greenwood was asked by Professor Anthony Zee, the Professor of Physics at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California, to read and comment on Professor Zee’s draft manuscript on the topic of Quantum Field Theory. Mr Greenwood’s contribution is recognised at page xvi of the Preface to the published work.

Prior to his appointment to the Court, Mr Greenwood was a member of the Board of the Mater Misericordiae Research Institute (a joint-venture between the Mater Hospitals and the University of Queensland), a member of the Board of one of Australia’s largest base load electricity generators (and its introduction into the National Electricity Market) and Chairman of a State Water Corporation responsible for managing State wide water assets and operating a scheme for the allocation  (and trading) of water entitlements by irrigators.

All of these matters reflect the diversity of Mr Greenwood’s experience.

Please contact Mr Greenwood for a copy of Mr Greenwood’s CV.

A link to his personal website can be found here.