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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)

The Bar

  • 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 

Academic

  • 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

    Australian Institute for Commercial Arbitration, Inc.

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

Other Appointments

  • 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)

Law Association Memberships

  • Victorian Bar - since 1982
  • Bar Association of Queensland - since 2005
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  • Home
  • Practice Profile
    • Qualifications
  • Professional Positions
  • Significant Cases
    • Administrative & Constitutional
    • Arbitration
    • Banking & Real Property
    • Bankruptcy
    • Contract
    • Corporations & Securities
    • Equity
    • Insolvency
    • Legal practitioners
    • Planning & Environment
    • Practice & Procedure
    • Torts
    • Trade Practices
  • Publications & Seminars
  • Papers
  • Legal Writing and Style Guide
  • Blog
  • Links
  • Contact