Admitted to the Bar 1996 (SA) 2004 (NSW)
Experience
Jonathan’s practice centres on public and administrative law, integrity investigations, inquiries and white-collar crime. It draws on extensive experience inside the institutions that investigate, oversee and adjudicate public conduct.
He is an Assistant Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force, a Member of the Defence Honours and Awards Appeals Tribunal, and a serving Lieutenant Colonel. He was formerly Counsel Assisting the Integrity Commissioner (Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity), Deputy President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal, and a judge advocate and Defence Force Magistrate.
He has appeared in numerous royal commissions and commissions of inquiry, and before the Independent Commission Against Corruption. He was lead counsel for Cricket Australia, Tennis Australia and Queensland Cricket in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, and appeared in the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.
In public and administrative law, he appears in judicial review and merits review proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of New South Wales and specialist tribunals, and in disciplinary, coronial and inquiry proceedings. His work regularly turns on jurisdictional error, statutory construction and procedural fairness. He advises government agencies, statutory bodies and regulated entities on the lawful exercise of statutory power, investigative process and evidentiary risk.
His white collar and corporate crime practice covers fraud, corruption and proceeds of crime matters, where his experience on the investigative side of integrity and law enforcement agencies informs both advice and advocacy.
He maintains an active construction and commercial practice, acting for builders, developers, contractors, owners corporations, insurers and government bodies in building defects, contractual disputes, professional negligence and insurance coverage matters. That work frequently turns on complex expert evidence and questions of conduct and compliance.
Principal Areas of Practice
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Commercial Law
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- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Arbitration
- Building, Construction and Technology
- Contracts
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Intellectual Property
- Partnership disputes
- Professional liability
- Real property
- Trade Practices
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Common Law
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- Defamation
- Professional indemnity
- Professional liability
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Criminal
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- Appellate
- Fraud
- Proceeds of crime
- White collar and corporate crime
- Work health and safety
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Equity
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Family Provision
- Property
- Trusts
- Wills and Estates
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Industrial/Employment
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- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Government Inquiries
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Inquests and Inquiries
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- Commissions of Inquiry
- Coronial Inquests
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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
- Proceeds of crime
- Public law
- Mediator
Sectors
Defence, Government, Transport and Infrastructure, Technology, Media & Telecommunications,