LEGAL ROLES

    • Senior Counsel (appointed 2015)

    • Barrister, New South Wales Bar (since 1995) | Victorian Bar (since 2007)

    • Accredited Mediator, Arbitrator, and Principal of Phillip Street Mediation (since 2014)

    • Lawyer, Mallesons Stephen Jacques (now Mallesons)

    • Research Director to the Chief Justice of New South Wales, the Hon. Murray Gleeson AC

    • Research Assistant to the Dean & Challis Professor of International Law University of Sydney, James Crawford AC SC

FELLOWSHIPS

 
 
    • Fellow

    • Fellow

    • Fellow

DISPUTE PANEL APPOINTMENTS

    • 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

    • Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration

    • Supreme Court of New South Wales

    • District Court of New South Wales

    • Asian International Arbitration Centre

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS ROLES

    • Regulatory Policy Committee

    • Superannuation Committee

    • Disciplinary Tribunal - Member (2021-2025)

    • Professional Conduct Committee - Member (2018-2021)

    • Practice Development Committee - Chair (2021-2023)

    • Futures Committee - Chair (2019-2021)

    • Bar Council (2019-2020)

    • President (2002-2003)

    • Director (2000-2003)

    • President (1999-2001)

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

 
 
  • Master of Laws

    Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours

    • Convocation Medal - ‘outstanding academic achievement and contribution to University life’ including as President of the University of Sydney Union and member of the Academic Board

    • Sydney Law Review (Editor), Criminal Law Journal (Student Editor)

    • Academic Prizes: Nancy Gordon Smith Prize at Graduation, Phillips Fox John L Mant Scholarship, Tress Cox Maddox Scholarship, Aaron Levine Prize for Criminal Law, Walter Reid Memorial Prizes

    Bachelor of Economics (Social Sciences) [Government, Economics]

  • Bachelor of Civil Law with First Class Honours

    • Balliol College, University of Oxford

    • Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Law

    • Graduate Diploma in Practical Legal Training


PROFESSIONAL pROGRAMMES & COURSES UNDERTAKEN

    • Climate Governance (2025)

    • Company Directors Course (2017)

    • Trustee Directors Course (2016)

    • Program on Negotiation and Leadership (2014)

    • Program on International and US Anti-Corruption Law (2014)

    • Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation (2013)