Specific Areas of Practice

Andrew has been practising at the New South Wales Bar since 2004.

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.

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



Some examples of cases in which Andrew has been involved include:

  1. commercial lease proceedings in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (see, e.g., [2008] NSWSC 657, [2008] NSWSC 654, [2008] NSWSC 645, [2008] NSWSC 637, [2008] NSWSC 506, [2007] NSWSC 1306, [2007] NSWSC 74, [2005] NSWCA 420);

  2. an inquiry as to damages in the Federal Court for breach of patent in the healthcare area (see, e.g., [2007] FCA 1828);

  3. a Federal Court proceeding brought as a test case by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission concerning the remuneration of company administrators (Re Gidley (2006) 150 FCR 345);

  4. New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings involving issues of unconscionability and economic duress (Australia & New Zealand Banking Group v Karam (2005) 64 NSWLR 149);

  5. New South Wales Court of Appeal proceedings (Masters v Garcia (2005) 65 NSWLR 92), and High Court special leave proceedings, in relation to poker machine entitlements issued under the Gaming Machines Act 2001 (NSW);

  6. Supreme Court proceedings for leave to bring derivative proceedings under the Corporations Act, and derivative proceedings brought pursuant to leave (see, e.g. [2006] NSWSC 1099);

  7. Family Provision Act matters in the Supreme Court as well as a case involving an application to set aside a will on grounds of testamentary incapacity and "suspicious circumstances";

  8. partnership dispute in the Federal Court involving allegations of deceit, conspiracy, breach of trust and misappropriation of intellectual property;

  9. proceedings before the Full Bench of the Industrial Relations Commission involving applications brought in unfair dismissal proceedings ([2005] NSWIRComm 64; [2005] NSWIRComm 223);

  10. Supreme Court proceedings against a firm of solicitors for negligent preparation of a contract for the sale of land;

  11. Supreme Court proceedings concerning a collapsed solicitors' mortgage investment scheme.

Previous Occupations

Prior to commencing at the New South Wales Bar, Andrew was employed as a solicitor at Freehills in Sydney (October 1998 - May 2003), practising in commercial litigation, corporate and employee relations.


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