Professional Positions

Commercial Bar Association

President of the Commercial Bar Association – Melbourne (CommBar) (2001 – 2005)
Senior Vice President of CommBar (1999 – 2001)
Chairman of the Corporations and Securities Law Section of CommBar (1998 – 2005)
Deputy Chair Corporations and Securities Law Section of CommBar (2005 – 2010)
Vice President (Convenor) of CommBar (1994 – 1998)
Founder of CommBar (1994)

Victorian Bar Representative, Programs Advisory Committee, Victoria Law School, College of Law & Justice, Victoria University Melbourne (2004 – present)
Member of the Supreme Court of Victoria Corporations Users’ Group (2010 – 2014)
Member Commercial Bar Association - current
Member of the Supreme Court of Victoria Commercial List Users’ Group (2003 – 2010)
Member Independent Chambers Committee (2008 – 2011)
Member Continuing Legal Education Committee (2001 – 2007)
Member Aboriginal Law Student Mentoring Support Group (2000 – 2001)
Member Litigation Procedure Review Committee For Commercial Law (1999 – 2001)
Member Legal Education Committee (1998 – 2000)
Member Academic And Continuing Legal Education Committee (1995 – 1997)
Founding Director, List Committee Member And Member Of List A Barristers (1990 – 2010)
Member Bar Library Committee (1987 – 1989)
Member Victorian Bar (1982 – 1985; 1987 - present)
Mentor to the following Barristers:

- (Victorian Bar) Joanne Piggott, Peter G Lovell, Margaret Lodge, Alan Herskope, David L Bailey, Richard W Short
- (now Queensland Bar) Picha Djohan

Companion of the University - Victoria University Melbourne - 2020
Adjunct Professor - Victoria Law School, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne – since 2005
Rapporteur, Adjunct Professoriate, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne - since 2014
Inaugural Fellow in Residence, Victoria Law School, Victoria University, Melbourne – since 2012
Editorial Advisory Board, Dictum, Victoria University Law School Journal – since 2011
Course Director, Graduate Diploma in Commercial Arbitration, Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria Law School, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne – since 2004
Chair of the Faculty of Business & Law Review Committee into the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria Law School 2009 – 2010
Victorian Bar Council Representative, Programs Advisory Committee, Victoria Law School, College of Law and Justice, Victoria University, Melbourne – since 2004
Advisory member of Head of Law School’s Building and Accommodation Committee for the Victoria Law School – since 2008
Occasional Lecturer, The Law of Commercial Arbitration, and International Commercial Arbitration, Victoria Law School, College of Law and Justice – since 2005
Moot Master, Victoria Law School Mooting Competition 2005 - 2011
Advisory member pro tem to Provost, Sir Zelman Cowen Centre, Victoria Law School, Professor the Hon J H Phillips AC QC, 2004 – 2008

President of the Australian Institute for Commercial Arbitration (2004 – 2011)
Councillor (2011 – present)

Chairman, Law Hawks, Legal Coterie, Hawthorn Football Club (2007 – 2011)
Member of Macrossan Chambers, Melbourne and Cairns (2010 - present)
Head of Chambers, Chancery Chambers, Melbourne (1997 – 1999, 2003 – 2005, 2006 – 2008)
Rapporteur and member of the Papers Committee, 13th Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne (2002-2003)
Committee member of the Executive of the Commercial Law Association of Australia Limited (1995-1998)
Honorary Secretary of the International Commission of Jurists (Australian Section) in Victoria and a member of its Executive Committee (1995 – 1996)
Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) (1992)
Corporate Lawyer (1986 - 1987)
Official Observer, Australian Constitutional Convention, Brisbane (1985)
President, Senior Common Room, Newman College, University of Melbourne (1984 – 1985)
Senior Resident Tutor in Law, Newman College, University of Melbourne (1982 – 1985)
Commissioned Officer: Australian Army Legal Corps (Reserve). Decorated with the Reserve Forces Decoration (RFD) (1979 – 2002)