PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Dominique is recognised by all leading professional guides:

  • Chambers & Partners - Dispute Resolution - 'maintains an impressively varied practice', ‘smart and very good’, 'a joy to work with - intelligent, hard-working and personable' ‘She is renowned as an expert in superannuation. She has the practical experience and knows the legislation like the back of her hand.’ ‘She's a safe pair of hands, commercial and easy to work with.’

  • The Legal 500 - Commercial Disputes (Leading Silk) - ‘Dominique has established an exceptional practice with extensive legal advice and advocacy experience in Australia, particularly in superannuation law.’ ‘has a diverse practice and is recognised for her experience in financial services and superannuation, along with numerous arbitral appointments. A 'standout' for her 'incisive handling of financial sector cases'.

  • The Legal 500 - Regulatory (including White Collar Crime) (Leading Silk) - ‘Dominique displays an exceptional level of technical skill and ability in the vastly complex regulatory arena of financial services law in Australia. Her ability to advise on highly technical issues and provide robust legal solutions tailored to the individual circumstances, needs and commercial objectives of clients is second to none. This is further demonstrated by her considerable rate of success in achieving client outcomes’ '‘pre-eminent' in investigations, inquiries, and Royal Commissions.

  • Best Lawyers/Australian Financial Review - Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Financial Institutions, Superannuation Law (Lawyer of the Year in Superannuation Law Sydney, 2023 and 2025)

  • LawyersWeekly Australian Law Awards - ‘Barrister of the Year’ (2016)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ROLES

Dominique was previously a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand Disciplinary Tribunal (2021-2024), the Australian Institute of Company Directors Law Committee (2018-2022), the Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand Professional Conduct Committee (2018-2021) the Australian Bar Association as Chair of the Practice Development Committee (2022-2024) and of the Futures Committee (2019-2021), and the NSW Bar Council and the NSW Barristers’ Benevolent Fund (2019-2020).

Dominique is also a past President of Australian Women Lawyers (2002-3) and of the Women Lawyers Association of NSW (1999-2001).

DISPUTE PANEL APPOINTMENTS

Mediator Panels

  • Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

  • Supreme Court of New South Wales

  • District Court of New South Wales

  • Asian International Arbitration Centre

Arbitral Panels

  • Australian Energy Regulator

  • National Broadband Network (Wholesale Access Disputes)

  • Essential Services Commission of South Australia

  • Economic Regulatory Authority of Western Australia

  • Asian International Arbitration Centre

BOARD DIRECTORSHIPS

Dominique is a Director of Natural Hazards Research Australia, the national research organisation for natural hazards resilience and disaster risk reduction. She is a member of the Audit, Risk & Compliance committee, and the Statekholder Engagement working group. Her 2022 appointment followed her work as Senior Counsel Assisting the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements in 2020.

Dominique also serves on the boards of Australian Cricket’s $115 million retirement investment fund (since 2019), and its new Players Cordon public benevolent foundation (since 2023), where she is Chair of the Governance Committee. Her appointments follow her terms as a trustee director of $3.5bn APRA/ASIC regulated industry superfund Club Plus Super, where she also served on the Audit, Risk & Compliance, the Investments, & Insurance & Claims committees.

Dominique is also a former director of the Menzies Memorial Foundation and the National Foundation of Australian Women.

As a university student, Dominique was elected as a Director and later President of the University of Sydney Union, as well as a member of the University’s Academic Board.

 
 
 

ACADEMIA

Dominique received a Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) (1990) and Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours (1992) from the University of Sydney, where she was awarded the Nancy Gordon Smith Prize at Graduation (graduating 3rd in year), the Phillips Fox John L Mant Scholarship, the Tress Cox Maddox Scholarship, the Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law, and several Walter Reid proficiency prizes. She was also a student editor of the Sydney Law Review and of the Criminal Law Journal and Director of Mooting.

Dominique was elected President of the University of Sydney Union in 1990, and in 1993 was awarded the University of Sydney Convocation Medal in recognition of her ‘outstanding academic achievement and contribution to University life’.

Dominique subsequently was awarded the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law to study at the University of Oxford, where she read at Balliol College and received a Bachelor of Civil Law with First Class Honours (1995).

She later completed a part-time Master of Laws with the University of Sydney (2004).

Dominique has completed short courses including the Harvard Program on Negotiation and Leadership, the American University Washington College of Law program on International and US Anti-Corruption Law, and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediator’s Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation.

From 2016 to 2019, Dominique was an Adjunct Associate Professor contributing to the University of New South Wale’s Centre for Law, Markets, and Regulation. She was previously an Adjunct Lecturer for the Australian Graduate School of Management’s Executive MBA (2000-2002).

Dominique is currently a Guest Lecturer for:

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