John is a barrister who came to the Bar in 1996 and has chambers at 153 Phillip, Barristers. John was also admitted as a Barrister in Queensland in 1998 and as a Barrister and Solicitor in Western Australia in 1999.
He is a co-founder of 153 Phillip, Barristers together with Peter Gray SC and has been a director of Chambers since its inception in 2017.
In the period 1997 to 2017 John practiced as a barrister from Blackstone Chambers.
John specialises in commercial law – principally in disputes involving corporations and associations (including partnerships, incorporated and unincorporated associations and co-operatives), contract law, insurance law (directors and officers insurance, professional indemnity insurance, special risks and other forms of general insurance and life insurance as well as re-insurance), insolvency, franchising law, finance/banking law, trade practices and equity/trusts.
John has wide-ranging trial experience and has been retained in a large number of commercial disputes in the Federal Court and in the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. A number of the cases in which John has been involved are significant cases in the relevant practice area and were long-running.
John has also appeared in Royal Commissions.
John was admitted as a Solicitor in New South Wales in 1982.
