Admission as a solicitor NSW June 1998

Admission as a barrister NSW February 2004



Specific Areas of Practice

  • Banking
  • Commercial
  • Corporations Law
  • Equity
  • Industrial/Employment
  • Insolvency
  • Insurance
  • Professional Negligence
  • Property
  • Trade Practices and Competition
  • Wills and Probate

Education

BCom / LLB (1st Class Honours #), University of New South Wales


Memberships

New South Wales Bar Association

Commercial Law Association of Australia


Previous occupations

Andrew worked as the research officer to the judges of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1997), then as solicitor at Freehills in Sydney (October 1998 - May 2003), practising in commercial litigation, corporate and employee relations.

Andrew left Freehills in May 2003. He placed first in the New South Wales Bar examinations before joining the New South Wales Bar in February 2004.


Current practice

Andrew practises across a range of areas in commercial civil litigation, with particular emphasis on equity, trade practices, appellate, insurance, employment law, wills and probate and professional negligence.

Andrew has appeared in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the Federal Court of Australia, the High Court of Australia, the District Court of New South Wales, the Administrative Decisions Tribunal, the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales and the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Some of the matters in which Andrew has advised or appeared include:


  • Supreme Court proceedings brought by investors in the collapsed Trio/Astarra managed investment group;
  • the successful defence of large-scale commercial lease proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales ##;
  • appearing at an inquiry as to damages in the Federal Court for breach of patent in the healthcare area;
  • acting for a senior member of the NSW Bar in professional negligence proceedings;
  • advising and appearing as junior counsel in a coronial inquest into a fatal explosion at a winery in the Hunter Valley;
  • a Federal Court proceeding brought as a test case by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission concerning the remuneration of company administrators;
  • New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings involving issues of unconscionability and economic duress;
  • New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings and High Court special leave proceedings in relation to poker machine entitlements issued under the Gaming Machines Act 2001 (NSW);
  • Supreme Court proceedings for leave to bring derivative proceedings under the Corporations Act and derivative proceedings brought pursuant to leave;
  • wills and probate matters;
  • partnership dispute in the Federal Court involving allegations of deceit, conspiracy, breach of trust and misappropriation of intellectual property;
  • proceedings before the Full Bench of the Industrial Relations Commission;
  • oppression proceedings in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court;
  • Supreme Court proceedings concerning a collapsed solicitors' mortgage investment scheme.

Publications

  • First draft, section on Rectification (Chapter 11 at [11.250-11.390]) in Young, Croft & Smith, On Equity, 2009.

# At the time of graduation UNSW did not award Law Honours. Letter from Dean confirms First Class Honours equivalent.

## See e.g. (2010) 14 BPR 27,605; [2010] NSWSC 1106; (2009) 75 NSWLR 380; (2009) 258 ALR 598; [2009] NSWSC 698; [2009] NSWSC 563; [2009] NSWSC 533; [2008] NSWSC 657; [2008] NSWSC 1263; [2008] NSWSC 1247; [2008] NSWSC1070; [2008] NSWSC 657; [2008] NSWSC 654, [2008] NSWSC 645, [2008] NSWSC 637, [2008] NSWSC 506, [2007] NSWSC 1306, [2007] NSWSC 74, [2005] NSWCA 420.

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