Admitted to the Bar 2022
Experience
David has a broad practice which includes commercial law, regulatory proceedings, class actions, corporations matters and equity. He regularly appears led and unled in a range of courts and tribunals.
He brings a unique a blend of commercial and practical experience to the bar, which enables him to provide strategic and straightforward advice.
David commenced his career as a solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills. While at HSF, he completed a secondment to The Shopfront Youth Legal Centre, a legal service for homeless and disadvantaged young people, where he routinely appeared in criminal hearings and applications in the Local and District Courts. Immediately prior to coming to the Bar, he was a solicitor in a regional firm, Everingham Solomons Solicitors, where he had carriage of commercial and civil matters from initial advice to final hearing.
He is an author of the Australian Corporation Practice published by LexisNexis.
Principal Areas of Practice
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Commercial Law
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- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Arbitration
- Aviation and Transportation Law
- Banking and Financial Services
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Building, Construction and Technology
- Class Actions
- Communications
- Competition and Consumer
- Conflict of Laws
- Contracts
- Corporations and Securities
- Environment and Planning
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Intellectual Property
- International Law
- Mining resources and energy
- Partnership disputes
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Real property
- Restraint of trade
- Shareholder class actions
- Sports law
- Superannuation
- Trade Practices
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Common Law
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Class Actions
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Medical negligence
- Product liability
- Professional indemnity
- Professional liability
- Sports law
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Criminal
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- Appellate
- White collar and corporate crime
- Work health and safety
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Equity
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Family Law Property
- Family Provision
- Property
- Trusts
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Industrial/Employment
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- Civil and Human Rights
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Government Inquiries
- Restraint of trade
- Work, Health and Safety Prosecutions
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Inquests and Inquiries
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- Commissions of Inquiry
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Public and Administrative Law
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Judicial review and administrative law
- Merits review
- Public law
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Taxation and Revenue
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Goods and services tax
- Income tax
- International tax
- Land tax
Sectors
Agribusiness, Banks & Financial Services, Government, Transport and Infrastructure, Primary Resources, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, Funds,