Papers and Presentations

  • Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries

  • Banking, Superannuation, and Financial Services Regulation

  • Reputation and Corporate Governance

  • Climate Change and Disaster Risk

  • Technology and the Law

  • Ethics and Professional Practice

  • International Law and Commerce

  • Women and the Legal Profession


Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries

Assisting Royal Commissions
(2024) 54(3) Australian Bar Review 293

Implementing Royal Commission Recommendations
(2024) 111 Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum 73

Reputation Risk and Governance: Lessons from Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries
Governance Directions (2025, Vol 78 Issue 2)

Learning lessons and implementing recommendations
(April 2024) Australian Journal of Emergency Management

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 (2019) + Slides


Banking, Superannuation, and Financial Services Regulation

Powers of APRA and ASIC in Superannuation
University of Melbourne Lecture LLM Superannuation Law and Policy (2025)

Current Issues in the Extent and Limits of the Powers of APRA and ASIC in Superannuation - Part III: Accountability of the Regulators
(2025) 115 Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum

Current Issues in the Extent and Limits of the Powers of APRA and ASIC in Superannuation - Part II: A Panoply of Powers
(2025) 114 Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum 84

Current Issues in the Extent and Limits of APRA and ASIC Powers in Superannuation - Part I: Into the Labyrinth
(2025) 113 Australian Institute of Administrative Law Forum 56

A Matter of Trust - Insolvency of Regulated Superannuation Trusts and Their Licensed Trustees
Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association Journal
(Mar 2024)

Avoiding Insolvency – Judicial Advice to a Superannuation Trustee
Australian Restructuring, Insolvency and Turnaround Association Quarterly
(Dec 2023)

Trustee Resilience: Balancing Liability and Indemnity
Law Council of Australia Superannuation Lawyers Conference (2022)

Current Thinking on the Sole Purpose Test
Law Council of Australia Superannuation Lawyers’ Conference (2019)


Reputation and Corporate Governance

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Reputation Risk and Governance
Association of Independent Schools of NSW Governance Symposium (2024)

Minutes of directors’ meetings: minimising the risk
(2019) 71:1 Governance Directions, Governance Institute of Australia

The Problem of Lost Trust Deeds 
(2017) Retirement and Estate Planning Bulletin (Vol 19, Issue 10)

Governance in a Post-Hayne World
Australian Corporate Counsel Association National Conference (2019)

Conflicts of Interest and Duty
Women on Boards Australia, Sydney Directors' Circle (2017)

Directors and Officers Duties - Recent Cases and Regulatory Developments
UNSW Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation Practitioners' Forum (2017) 


Climate Change & Disaster Risk

Australia’s Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements
International Bar Association Annual Conference Presentation (Toronto, Canada 2025)

Implications of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion for institutional investors
International Bar Association Webinar (2025)

Going Green? Lawyer Regulation and Climate Change
International Bar Association Annual Conference (Paris, 2023)


Technology and the Law

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Handbook for Judicial Officers - Computer says “no”: automation, algorithms and artificial intelligence in Government decision-making
Judicial Commission of New South Wales

Computer Says No: Government Decision Making
The Ethics of Data Science Conference, University of Sydney (2019)

Challenges for the Legal Profession: Data Management, Confidentiality and Cyber Security Fiji Law Society Annual Convention (2017)

Automation, Algorithms & Artificial Intelligence and Government Decision-Making (Slides) 
UNSW Public Sector Law & Governance Seminar (2017)


Ethics and Professional Practice

Role of the Legal Profession in Preserving the Rule of Law
Law Society of NSW Council (2025)

Practice Development for the Junior Bar Post Covid
Australian Bar Association (2022)

Guide to Practice Development
5 Wentworth Chambers Retreat 2022)

What role has good advocacy in mediations? 
International Bar Association Annual Conference (2017)

Dealing with Self represented Litigants in Civil Proceedings: Practitioner Tips and Duties 
The College of Law, Unrepresented Litigants Forum (2014)


International Law and Commerce

New approaches to proof of foreign law: a practitioners' assessment”
Chapter co-authored with Justin Hogan-Doran SC 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 Conference (London 2017)

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Women and the Legal Profession

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2024 year in review #lifeofabarrister
Medium (18 January 2025)

2023: a year in prose and pictures #lifeofabarrister
Medium (1 January 2024)

Women Who Lead (Transcript of oral remarks)
SCEGGS Darlinghurst Students, Parents & Alumni Network Panel (2018)

New Law - New You (Slides) Australian Women Lawyers Conference (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).