Admitted to the Bar 2024
Experience
Prior to being called to the Bar, Nicola worked as a Senior Associate in the Public Law Team at MinterEllison and as an Associate to the Hon Justice JS Gleeson in both the High Court of Australia and the Federal Court of Australia. Prior to this, Nicola worked as a lawyer within the Office of the Solicitor Assisting the Disability Royal Commission and as a lawyer in the Dispute Resolution Team at the Australian Government Solicitor in Canberra.
Nicola graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts (Government) and a Bachelor of Laws with Honours. She later completed a Master of Laws at the London School of Economics, where she graduated with Distinction and placed first in the subject Freedom of Speech, Media and the Law.
Nicola has previously held sessional academic positions at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University. Her research interests are defamation law, climate change litigation and the interactions between constitutional and tort law.
Nicola accepts briefs in all areas of law.
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
- Class Actions
- Communications
- Competition and Consumer
- Conflict of Laws
- Contracts
- Corporations and Securities
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- International Law
- Mining resources and energy
- Partnership disputes
- Product liability
- Professional liability
- Real property
- Restraint of trade
- Shareholder class actions
- Sports law
- Trade Practices
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Common Law
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Class Actions
- Defamation
- Insurance and Reinsurance
- Medical negligence
- Product liability
- Professional indemnity
- Professional liability
- Sports law
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Criminal
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- Appellate
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Equity
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Property
- Trusts
- Wills and Estates
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Industrial/Employment
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- Civil and Human Rights
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Government Inquiries
- Health Law
- Restraint of trade
- Work, Health and Safety Prosecutions
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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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- Administrative Law
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Appellate
- Constitutional Law
- Disciplinary Proceedings
- Health Law
- Judicial review and administrative law
- Merits review
- Proceeds of crime
- Public law
Sectors
Banks & Financial Services, Government, Technology, Media & Telecommunications,