Profile

Recent experience as a barrister includes:

• Acting for Woodside Energy (led by D Clothier KC and F Gordon KC) in Federal Court proceedings to resist injunctive relief in respect of the Scarborough Gas Project. The case concerned asserted climate change impacts to the Great Barrier Reef.
• Acting and appearing for Vannin Capital Operations (unled) in respect of various costs orders against QNI Metals Pty Ltd, QNI Resources Pty Ltd and Queensland Nickel Sales Pty Ltd.
• Acting for Kmart Australia Pty Ltd (led by M Hodge KC) in a leasing dispute concerning Toombul Shopping Centre
• Advising (led by A Scott KC) the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator on matters of statutory interpretation.
• Acting (led by M May) for an individual in QCAT proceedings concerning the Retirement Villages Act 1999 (Qld)
• Advising pro bono (led by A Scott KC and J Jones) an individual on the prospects of judicial review proceedings challenging a decision of Magistrate.

Experience as a solicitor includes:

• Acting for BMA in defence of a $294M claim for loss of opportunity.
• Defence of a $6M Federal Court claim seeking recovery of redundancy payments arising out of the exercise of a right of termination for convenience.
• Defence of a $20M Supreme Court claim for breach of contract by an engineering service provider.
• Defence of a Supreme Court claim for defamation and breach of employment contract by a former employee.
• Defence of disciplinary proceedings by the Board of Professional Engineers.
• Defence of a prosecution for alleged breaches of the Coal Mining Safety and Health Act 1999 (Qld).
• Appearing at conciliations before the Australian Human Rights Commission and state Anti-Discrimination tribunals in defence of discrimination claims.

Inquiries and inquests:

• Instructing at a coronial inquest into a death at a mining site.
• Managing an investigation by the NSW Resources Regulator into serious safety incident resulting in the acceptance of an enforceable undertaking.
• Acting for BMA and BMC in relation to the Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into the re-identification of Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis in Queensland.
• Acting for Brisbane City Council in the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry.

Internal investigations:

• Conducting workplace investigations into allegations of misconduct (including allegations of retaliation, harassment and discrimination).
• Conducting an audit of a Department’s compliance with reporting obligations under the Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 (Qld) in the wake of a high profile employee fraud.