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View AllDoyle’s Guide to Professional Indemnity Qld 2026 – 8 listed
Damian Clothier KC, Rob Anderson KC, Matthew Jones KC, Matthew Hickey OAM KC, Kristi Riedel, Sam McCarthy, Mark Eade, Bianca Kabel — Insurance, Professional Negligence
The Doyle’s Guide to Leading Professional Indemnity Barristers – Queensland, 2026 recognises senior and junior counsel practising in professional indemnity and negligence matters in the Queensland legal market. Counsel were identified by the state’s defendant insurance and plaintiff personal injury lawyers for their expertise and ability in these areas. Four…
Doyle’s Guide to Leading Competition Law Australia 2026 - Michael Hodge KC listed
Michael Hodge KC — Competition & Consumer
Michael Hodge KC has received a Preeminent ranking in the 2026 edition of Doyle’s Guide to Leading Competition Law Senior Counsel in Australia. The rankings recognise senior counsel identified by clients and peers for their expertise in competition, consumer protection and antitrust matters across Australia. The full Doyle’s Guide rankings…
Australian Arbitration Week 2026: 11-16 October 2026
James Green, Lucinda Brabazon, Tim Elliss — Arbitration, International
Level Twenty Seven Chambers and its members are pleased to be participating in several events during Australian Arbitration Week 2026 in Melbourne. In addition to the ACICA and Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Australia International Arbitration Conference on Monday, 12 October 2026, more than 66 individual events are scheduled throughout the…
Upcoming Seminars
View AllAUSTRALIAN ARBITRATION WEEK 2026 – Too Fast, Too Risky? The Upsides and Downsides of Increasingly Expedited Arbitration Processes
15-10-26 @ 10:00 am / James Green, Lucinda Brabazon — Arbitration, International
Discussion Several institutional rules have recently sought to expand the availability of expedited arbitration procedure. Some have even introduced ‘highly’ expedited procedures. Speed and efficiency is one of the (intended) hallmarks of arbitration, and a consistent issue raised by users. However, are the ever-increasingly expedited procedures opening up a risk…
Mind the gap: unavailable witnesses, missing documents and inferential fact finding at trial - CLA x Level 27 Chambers
28-10-26 @ 12:45 pm / Claire Schneider — Commercial Equity
What will the seminar cover? Level Twenty Seven Chambers will join the Commercial Law Association of Australia to present a lunchtime seminar titled Mind the Gap: Unavailable Witnesses, Missing Documents and Inferential Fact-Finding at Trial. The application of case law concerning the inferences available to a court where a party’s…
Latest Publications
View AllLoss Counterfactuals
22-1-26 / Benjamin Teng — Contract, Commercial Equity
Benjamin Teng authored this article, published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. The article examines how private law uses counterfactuals to determine whether a claimant has suffered loss and argues, as a general rule, that loss should be assessed by asking what would have happened without the wrong. This…
Vanderstock v Victoria: Free Trade and Federalism (2024) 35(1) Federal Law Review 13–23 wins 2025 Saunders Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law
21-8-25 / Sarah Spottiswood — Appellate, Judicial Review & Administrative, Tax
Level Twenty Seven Chambers is delighted to announce that the article “Vanderstock v Victoria: Free Trade and Federalism” by Sarah Spottiswood and Felicity Nagorcka has been awarded the 2025 Saunders Prize for Excellence in Constitutional Law. This prestigious award, presented by the Australian Association of Constitutional Law (AACL), recognises exceptional…
Loss’s Edge: One Step (Support) v Morris-Garner
15-8-25 / Benjamin Teng — Contract
Benjamin Teng authored this book chapter published in Private Law and the UK Supreme Court (edited by Jenny Russell and Lewis Graham). It concerns the United Kingdom Supreme Court decision in One Step v Morris-Garner Support Ltd, which examines why and when negotiating damages should be awarded, and is, at…
Recent Cases
View AllSharpin v Qantas Airways Limited [2026] FCA 1399
23-9-26 / Scott Robinson — Employment & Industrial
This case concerned an Amended Interlocutory Application filed by the respondent, seeking orders that the applicant give discovery of documents pursuant to rr 20.12 and 20.15 of the Federal Court Rules 2011 (Cth) (FCR). The Court considered the application of the relevant legislative scheme (FCR), and the established principles relating…
TLAS Pty Ltd as trustee for the TLAS Trust v Arrowes Roading Safety Pty Ltd [2026] FCA 1356
16-9-26 / Rob Anderson KC, Matthew Wilkinson — Competition & Consumer, Contract
The applicant sought orders for a refund and compensation for financial losses in respect of an Automatic Cone Truck Vehicle ('ACT vehicle') purchased from the respondent for $586,080. The applicant relied on two grounds. First, that the respondent breached an express contractual warranty of acceptable quality, as the ACT vehicle…
Pat Nolan Butchery Pty Ltd & Ors v Department of Transport and Main Roads (No 2) [2026] QLC 19
15-9-26 / Rob Anderson KC, John Ware — Land Law & Property
Rob Anderson KC and John Ware acted for the successful respondent, instructed by the Department of Transport and Main Roads. While there were no appearances, counsel authored the respondent’s written submissions. This proceeding follows from Pat Nolan Butchery Pty Ltd & Ors v Department of Transport and Main Roads [2026] QLC…
