Admission Date

  • Admitted to practice: 7 October 2005
  • Called to the Bar: 8 October 2007

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws (Honours Class 1) (Macquarie)
  • Bachelor of Arts (Politics/ International Relations) (Macquarie)

Previous Occupations

  • Solicitor, Clayton Utz, February 2006 to May 2007
  • Tutor in Litigation (2007) and Torts (2006), Macquarie University
  • Tipstaff/ Legal Researcher to the Hon. Justice R P Austin, Supreme Court of NSW, May 2005 to February 2006

Specific Areas of Practice

Mr Knackstredt appears regularly in all Courts and Tribunals, including the Supreme Court, District Court, Local Court, Federal Court and Federal Magistrates Court.

Areas of practice include:
  • Administrative
  • Appellate
  • Bankruptcy and Insolvency
  • Commercial
  • Corporations
  • Defamation
  • Equity and Trusts
  • Property
  • Trade Practices and Competition

Professional Memberships & Bar Association Committees

  • Member of the Australian Young Lawyers Committee
  • Member of the NSW Bar Association New Barristers Committee
  • Immediate Past President of NSW Young Lawyers
  • Member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Advisory Council

Foreign Languages

  • Danish

Publications

  • Author of “Compliance with Privacy Act critical for credit reporting” (2010) 48(5) Law Society Journal 36
  • Co-author of “Procedural fairness mandated for the CTTT” (2009) 47(11) Law Society Journal 77
  • Author of NSW Young Lawyers CLE "Administrators' and Debtors' Bankruptcy Petitions", to be presented at Turner's Vineyard, Orange, NSW on 22 February 2008
  • Author of "Infrastructure deductions: Citylink (Transurban)" (2006) 17 Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice 299
  • Author of "The non-resident's residual liability to withholding tax" (2006) 40(10) Taxation in Australia 538
  • Author of "The Evolution in Civil Penalty Proceedings" (2006) 24 Company and Securities Law Journal 56
  • Contributor to A Practitioner's Guide to Civil Litigation, 2nd Edition, NSW Young Lawyers, 2006
  • Editor of P M G Fonseca, The Law of Armed Conflicts, Forlaget SB, Copenhagen, 2003

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