Papers and Presentations
Ethics and Professional Practice
Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries
Superannuation and Trusts
Banking and Financial Regulation
Directors Duties and Corporate Governance
International Law and Commerce
Technology and the Law
Women and the Legal Profession
Ethics and Professional Practice
2023: a year in prose and pictures #lifeofabarrister - on Medium (1 January 2024)
Going Green? Lawyer Regulation and Climate Change - International Bar Association Annual Conference (Paris, 30 October 2023)
Practice Development for the Junior Bar Post Covid - Australian Bar Association (15 August 2022)
Guide to Practice Development - 5 Wentworth Chambers Retreat (5 August 2022)
What role has good advocacy in mediations? International Bar Association Annual Conference (Sydney, 10 October 2017) - Listen on Soundcloud
Mediation: Ethics, Confidentiality, and Privilege NSW Young Lawyers Civil Litigation One-Day Seminar (Sydney, 28 March 2015)
Dealing with Self represented Litigants in Civil Proceedings: Practitioner Tips and Duties The College of Law, Unrepresented Litigants Forum (Sydney, May 2014)
Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries
Assisting Royal Commissions Australian National University School of Regulation and Governance (13 February 2024)
to be published in (2024) 54(3) Australian Bar Review (forthcoming August 2024)
“Viewpoints: Learning lessons and implementing recommendations” Australian Journal of Emergency Management (April 2024)
Post Disaster Public Inquiries and Policy Learning AFAC Lessons Management Forum (28 June 2023)
Lessons for Government from Recent Royal Commissions and Inquiries Law Society of NSW Government Solicitors’ Conference (Sydney, 3 September 2019)
- Listen on SoundCloud - PowerPoint Presentation Slides
The Work of Counsel in Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries 5 Wentworth Chambers Retreat (Katoomba, 10 August 2019)
Royal Commissions in Australia South Australian Bar Association (Adelaide, 20 March 2018)
Managing Corporate Interests in Public Inquiries UNSW Issues for In-House Counsel Seminar (Sydney, 8 November 2017)
Responding To Crisis: Royal Commissions And Public Inquiries In Australia UNSW LLM program in Regulation, Litigation & Enforcement (Sydney, 27 September 2013)
Superannuation and Trusts
Extent and Limits of APRA and ASIC’s Regulatory Powers - Law Council of Australia Superannuation Lawyers Conference (Adelaide, 15 March 2024)
A Matter of Trust - insolvency of regulated superannuation trusts and their licensed trustees - Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association Journal (March 2024) pp 26-29
Avoiding insolvency – Judicial advice to a superannuation trustee - Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association Quarterly (December 2023)
Trustee Resilience: Balancing Liability and Indemnity - Law Council of Australia Superannuation Lawyers Conference (Canberra, 13 March 2022)
Insurance Benefits & Superannuation Trustee Duties: Issues & Recent Cases - Presentation to Retail Banking Group (Sydney, 28 October 2019)
Current Thinking on the Sole Purpose Test - Law Council of Australia Superannuation Lawyers’ Conference (Gold Coast, 8 March 2019)
The Problem of Lost Trust Deeds (2017) Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin (Vol 19, Issue 10)
Banking and Financial Services Regulation
Environmental, Social and Governance Fundamentals College of Law (18 May 2023)
Governance in a Post-Hayne World - Australian Corporate Counsel Association National Conference (Adelaide, 14 November 2019)
Post-Hayne: The State of Financial Regulation in Australia - NSW Labor Lawyers Seminar (Sydney, 9 April 2019)
The Regulators Panel - Australian Bar Association National Conference (Sydney, 16 November 2018)
Enforcing the new Banking Executive Accountability Regime - UNSW Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation (Sydney, 2 May 2018)
The Future of Financial Advice & Liability of Financial Advisors - NSW Bar (Orange, 28 February 2015; Parramatta, 14 March 2015)
Shareholder protection in complex capital markets - Commercial Bar Association of Victoria (Melbourne, 27 August 2014)
Regulator Powers, Client Privileges And Responses: Legal Professional Privilege And Privilege Against Self Incrimination - UNSW LLM program in Regulation, Litigation & Enforcement (Sydney, 25 September 2013)
Directors Duties and Corporate Governance
Reputation Risk and Governance - Association of Independent Schools of New South Wales 2024 Governance Symposium (Sydney, 15 April 2024)
Minutes of directors’ meetings: minimising the risk (2019) 71:1 Governance Directions, journal published by the Governance Institute of Australia
Modern Corporate Governance: The Practice of Minutes - Governance Institute of Australia Corporate Governance Forum (Sydney, 31 May 2017)
Conflicts of Interest and Duty - Women on Boards Australia, Sydney Directors' Circle (Sydney, 14 March 2017)
Directors and Officers Duties - Recent Cases and Regulatory Developments - UNSW Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation Practitioners' Forum (Sydney, 10 March 2017)
Advocating The Complexity of Corporate Law - Governance Institute of Australia 33rd National Conference (Sydney, 29 November 2016)
International Law and Commerce
Orthodoxy & Innovation in the Proof of Foreign Law - Sydney Law School Commercial Issues in Private International Law Conference (Sydney, 16 Feb 2018) - paper published as “New approaches to proof of foreign law: a practitioners' assessment” (chapter co-authored with Justin Hogan-Doran) in Commercial Issues in Private International Law: A Common Law Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2019)
In Conversation with His Excellency His Honour Judge James Crawford, International Court of Justice Australian Bar Association Bi-Annual Conference (London, 3 July 2017) - Listen on SoundCloud
International Law Developments in Australia (2017) 51 International Legal Developments Year in Review: 2016
published by the American Bar Association Section of International Law
Technology and the Law
Computer Says No: Government Decision Making - The Ethics of Data Science Conference, University of Sydney (Sydney, 28 March 2019) PowerPoint Presentation | Listen on Soundcloud | Read Transcript of Oral Remarks.
“Computer says 'No'”: Automation, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Government Decision-Making (2017) 13 The Judicial Review 345 (published by the Judicial Commission of New South Wales)
Challenges for the Legal Profession: Data Management, Confidentiality and Cyber Security - Fiji Law Society Annual Convention (Fiji, 2 September 2017)
Automation, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence and Government Decision-Making (Slide Deck) - UNSW Public Sector Law & Governance Seminar (Sydney, 23 May 2017)
Women and the Legal Profession
Women Who Lead (Transcript of oral remarks) SCEGGS Darlinghurst Students, Parents & Alumni Network Panel (Sydney, 28 Aug 2018)
New Law - New You (Slide deck) Australian Women Lawyers Conference (Sydney, 25 Aug 2018)
Women, the Bar and Democracy - speech to the "Liberty's Defence? Women and the Law" lecture series, St James Church (published in the NSW Bar Association's Bar News, Winter 2004 pages 31-33).