I regularly work with government and insurer clients to advise on indemnity issues and defend claims. I help trouble-shoot contractual indemnity and risk allocation issues for many commercial clients. 

Career highlights

• Effective use of ADR – some of my greatest career highlights have occurred in mediations and settlement conferences or on the doorstep of court.
• Success for a law enforcement agency – successfully defended a claim alleging excessive use of force and false imprisonment and obtained an award of indemnity costs in my client's favour.
• Win for auditors – secured judgment in favour of insured auditors (with indemnity costs) where allegations included fraud, breach of contract, negligence and misleading and deceptive conduct.
• Interstate cable severed – negotiated a favourable result in a multi-party Supreme Court recovery claim in relation to a severed interstate telecommunications cable on a construction site, which required emergency measures to contain loss of service, revenue, business and reputation.
• Advise numerous insurers and not-for-profits on historical abuse matters.
• Community Investment Program – many years volunteering, including for the Homeless Persons’ Legal Clinic and Self-Representation Service.

Education
LLB (HONS); BA (JAPANESE); GRADUATE DIPLOMA OF LEGAL PRACTICE

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