The Patron of CIArb Australia
The Hon Murray Gleeson AC graduated in Arts and Law from Sydney University and was admitted to the New South…
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The Trustee of CIArb for the Australasian Region
John Wakefield is the Managing Partner of Holman Webb Lawyers and practices generally in dispute resolution. He has been the…
Read MoreThe Hon Murray Gleeson AC graduated in Arts and Law from Sydney University and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1963. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1974.
He was a part-time Lecturer in Company Law at Sydney University from 1965 to 1974. He was a Member of the Council of the New South Wales Bar Association from 1979 to 1985. He was elected as Honorary Master of the Bench, Middle Temple, in 1989.
He held the offices of Chief Justice of New South Wales from 1988 until 1998, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales from 1989 until 1998 and Chief Justice of Australia from 1998 to 2008. In 2009 he was appointed a Non-Permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal.
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1986 for services to law and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1992 for services to law and the Crown.
Mr Gleeson is the Patron of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Australia) Limited and a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds degrees of Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Sydney, Honorary Doctor of Griffith University, and Honorary Doctor of the Australian Catholic University.
John Wakefield is the Managing Partner of Holman Webb Lawyers and practices generally in dispute resolution. He has been the member for Australasia of the CIArb Board of Trustees since 2017.
John is a Fellow and Past President of the Australian Branch of CIArb and a Fellow of ACICA. He is also Chair of the Australian Disputes Centre. ADC provides a focus for alternative dispute resolution in Australia with hearing and function rooms. ADC also provides nationally accredited mediation training. It is the secretariat for the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and the registered office of Australian branch of the CIArb. John is also a nationally accredited mediator (NMAS) and teaches and speaks regularly on current issues in alternative dispute resolution.
From 2009 – 2014 John was a judicial member (part time) of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal of NSW. Since 2014 he has been a senior member (part time) of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal sitting in the Administrative and Equal Opportunity and Occupational Divisions and on the Appeal Panel.
John has been recognised since 2018 in the Australian Edition of Best Lawyers in alternative dispute resolution and received the award for Australian Arbitrator of the Year in the 2018 Australasian Law Awards.
John is a barrister and member of the Victorian Bar of over 30 years standing and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and ACICA.
He has been a National Councillor of the Australian branch of CIArb since September 2014 and previously its Treasurer (May 2017 – April 2020) and Company Secretary (October 2014 to May 2018).
John’s principal area of practice is general commercial litigation including contract, sale of land, property, equity, corporations, professional negligence and succession. An experienced advocate, John’s work ranges across all Victorian courts and tribunals with his primary focus on trials and appeals. John is particularly interested in alternative dispute resolution including arbitration, adjudication and mediation.
John has published numerous articles and delivered seminars and presentations both locally and internationally on topics in contract law, equity, property law and sale of land, estates, professional conduct, practice and procedure and international arbitration, including “Australia, Hub for International Arbitration”.
John is a co-author of Williams Civil Procedure Victoria, Lexis Nexis (LN) (with David Bailey of counsel); and author of Australian Uniform Evidence, LN, an author of several other LN titles, as well as member of the editorial panel for Australian Alternative Dispute Resolution Bulletin (LNN). He is an author of Australian Uniform Evidence Law: Principles and Context; Geoffrey Bellew, John K Arthur, Gideon Boas, and Pascale Chifflet; with contributions by Ilija Vickovich; Lexis Nexis, 2019, and a chapter in International Arbitration Discourse and Practices in Asia (Ed. Vijay K. Bhatia, Maurizio Gotti, Azirah Hashim, Philip Koh, Sundra Rajoo), Routledge, 2017 “Setting aside or non-enforcement of arbitral awards in international arbitration on the public policy ground – a regional perspective.”
John is keen for Australian lawyers to embrace harmonization and internationalization of Australian law and to reach out to and engage with the region and beyond.
John is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Asian Australian Lawyers Association; the Rules Committee of ACICA; he is empanelled with the AIAC (prev KLRCA) on its arbitration, mediation and adjudication panels, and is a member of the International Bar Association, the Law Institute of Victoria, Asialink’s Chairman’s Club and Chancellor’s Circle, and Legal Friends of the Recital Centre.
Caroline served as CIArb Australia President from 2017 to 2020. She has over 30 years’ experience as a barrister, arbitrator and mediator. She has practised in Australia, New York and London. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2008.
Caroline practises in administrative, commercial and construction matters. She is an experienced advocate, mediator and arbitrator having been retained in complex matters for governments, government agencies and private sector clients throughout her career at the Bar. She is an experienced appellate advocate and has frequently appeared in the High Court of Australia. She is a nationally accredited mediator and a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Professional Experience
Caroline has appeared as counsel and arbitrator in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations conducted under the Rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC , UNCITRAL and KLRCA Rules. She has been appointed presiding arbitrator and/or sole arbitrator in international disputes involving multi-million dollar claims. Caroline is a a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC); the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); the Russian Arbitration Centre (RAC), the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC); the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC), the Pacific International Arbitration Centre (PIAC); the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC); the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution® (ICDR®), the international division of the American Arbitration Association; and the Australian Energy Regulator (AER). She is the President of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Aust) Pty Ltd and is the Immediate Past Chair of the Education Committee. She is on the CIArb London Approved Faculty List and has taught in the Award Writing Course, the Accelerated Route to Fellowship Course and Diploma Course in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Oxford.
Education Qualifications
Professional Qualifications
Jurisdictions Admitted To Practice
Current Boards and Committees
2016
Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.
Leon holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) degree from the University of Sydney.
He is admitted to practise as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW, the Supreme Court of South Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of Australia.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and of ACICA.
Leon is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills in the Disputes Group. He is an experienced and highly regarded litigator and arbitrator. His practice encompasses commercial disputes, regulatory investigations and inquiries, international arbitration and disputes and providing crisis and risk management and strategic advice to Boards. Leon has advised and acted across a number of industries for global clients.
He has particular expertise in alternative dispute resolution processes including international arbitration, expert determination and mediation; in international investments and cross-border transactions including FTAs and investment treaties; and in corporate responsibility compliance with anti-foreign corruption and sanction regimes.
Leon is consistently ranked as a leading commercial litigator and arbitrator. Most recently he was listed in Best Lawyers Australia as a leading lawyer in Disputes, Alternative Disputes Resolution and Regulatory Practice and in Doyle’s Guide as a Pre-Eminent Arbitration Lawyer. He was also named in Global Arbitration Review’s Who’s Who’s Legal: Arbitration – Future Leaders 2017 and 2018 and Asia Pacific Legal 500.
Leon is a Councillor and Vice-President of CIArb Australia and a director of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, which are Australia’s leading dispute resolution bodies.
Vicky Priskich is Vice President of CIArb Australia, a national councillor and the Chair of the Education Committee of CIArb Australia and a Fellow of CIArb. She practices as a barrister and arbitrator.
Vicky is experienced in international commercial arbitrations conducted under the SIAC, UNCITRAL and ICC Rules and in arbitral award enforcement proceedings in Australia.
Vicky acts as counsel and arbitrator across a broad range of complex commercial disputes including, oil and gas cost and revenue farm-in, gas supply, shareholder, distributorship and major construction agreements. She has a detailed knowledge of trusts law and has acted as counsel in commercial and family trust disputes and has appeared in banking and finance disputes in the Supreme and Federal Courts.
Vicky is co-author of Lender Liability (Thomson Reuters, 2016) with Professor James O’Donovan. She received her doctorate in law from the University of Melbourne on the subject of liability and insolvency of corporate groups.
Nick is a barrister, arbitrator and adjudicator with over 15 years’ experience in disputes concerning the engineering, construction, oil & gas, mining, defence and general commercial sectors. Named in the Doyle’s Guide since 2014 as ‘leading junior counsel’ in construction and commercial litigation & dispute resolution, he specialises in the law and practice of ADR. He has appeared as counsel in large and complex commercial litigation and arbitrations, both domestic and international.
Nick is an accredited mediator, arbitrator and adjudicator (South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory and Malaysia).
Professional Qualifications
B.Com – University of Adelaide
LLB – Queensland University of Technology
Practitioner’s Certificate in Mediation and Conciliation – Resolution Institute
Professional Certificate in Arbitration – University of Adelaide
Grad. Dip. in Military Law – Australian National University
Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration – The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
RICS Adjudication Course (Western Australia) – RICS Dispute Resolution Service
Certificate in Maritime Disputes and Arbitration – Lloyd’s Maritime Academy
Certificate in Adjudication – AIAC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Andrew Hanak QC is a member of the Victorian Bar practising in commercial law.
Andrew has over 20 years experience in providing advice and appearing in matters at both trial and appellate level in Superior Courts throughout Australia. He is a qualified arbitrator and practises regularly in both international and domestic commercial arbitration disputes. He has appeared as Counsel in several Royal Commissions, inquiries and statutory investigations.
Andrew was appointed Queen’s Counsel for the State of Victoria in 2018. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, a member of the CIArb London approved faculty list, a nationally accredited mediator and editor of the Australian Property Law Journal.
He has been recognised over numerous years by Best Lawyers Australia and by Doyle’s Guide.
Dr Andrew Hanak QC practises in all Australian jurisdictions.
Education
PhD (Monash) BA, LLB (Hons) (Monash)
CIArb Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration (Hong Kong)
Andrew Di Pasquale practises in commercial law, public law and international commercial arbitration.
Prior to joining the bar, Andrew was solicitor with varied commercial experience including working as a Senior Legal Consultant for DLA Piper – Dubai, as a solicitor in the construction groups of King & Wood Mallesons (then Mallesons Stephen Jaques) and Clayton Utz, and as in-house counsel for a mining company, Mitsubishi Development. Andrew was also the legal assistant to international arbitrator Neil Kaplan CBE, QC, SBS.
During his time as a solicitor, Andrew worked on large scale infrastructure projects, in both transactional and litigious capacities. Andrew also spent time on secondment to Telstra, Meraas Development (Dubai) and the Tourism Development Infrastructure Corporation (Abu Dhabi).
Tom specialises in commercial dispute resolution (including litigation, arbitration, and adjudication) in projects & construction, energy & resources, and professional practices.
Tom regularly advises contractors, principals, and engineers on major infrastructure disputes in respect to the construction of infrastructure on significant mining and resources projects in the Asia Pacific region, and in respect to the construction of significant commercial projects in Western Australia. Tom also acts for resources companies and services contractors in respect of commercial disputes, including oil and gas, iron ore, wind and solar, lithium, and uranium.
Tom has appeared in all superior courts in Western Australia and New South Wales, and the Federal Court and Full Federal Court of Australia, on appeals, trials, and interlocutory matters. He has also appeared in the High Court of Australia.
Career highlights
Michael is a Barrister at Law, Victoria and a Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School.
Educational and professional qualifications:
Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Melbourne (1988)
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne (1990)
Barrister and Solicitor, High Court of Australia (1991)
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Victoria (1991)
Master of Laws, University of Melbourne (1995)
Member of the Victorian Bar (1997)
Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Western Australia (1997)
Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2001)
Senior Counsel – Victoria (2017)
Queens Counsel – Victoria (2018)
Diploma in International Arbitration (2018)
Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (2019)
Victorian Bar Pro Bono Trophy (2019)
Relevant experience:
2006 – Current: Author, McPherson’s Law of Company Liquidation
2004 – Current: Joint Editor, Australian Bankruptcy Cases (New Series)
1999 – Current: External Lecturer in Insolvency Law, Melbourne Law School (subject co-ordinator since 2005, Senior Fellow since 2016)
1998 – Current: Co-author, Australian Bankruptcy Law and Practice
1997 – Current: Barrister, Victorian Bar, practising in Commercial Law including Insolvency Law (Silk from 2017)
1991 – 1997: Solicitor and Senior Associate, Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst)
Current Board Memberships:
2017 – Current: Member, Insolvency Practitioner Registration and Disciplinary Committees
2015 – Present: Member, Anglican Church Professional Standards Review Board (Victoria)
2005 – Present: Member, Electoral Tribunals of University of Melbourne Student Union and (since 2014) Graduate Students’ Association (nominee of Dean of Law School)
2011 – Present: Trustee, St Peters’ Eastern Hill Charitable Foundation
2004 Present: Member, Law Council of Australia, Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee
Former Board Memberships:
2014- 2019: Secretary, Melbourne Anglican Trusts Corporation
2014 – 2015: President, Medico Legal Society of Victoria
2012 – 2014: Vice President (Legal), Medico Legal Society of Victoria
2011 – 2012: Member, Victorian Bar Council
2006 – 2015: Member, Committee, Medico Legal Society of Victoria
1999 – 2005: Member, Victorian Bar Council
Kristian is a councillor of CIArb and a Senior Associate of Clifford Chance’s arbitration team. His practice focuses on resolving construction disputes on major projects across the mining, energy, and infrastructure sectors. His experience extends to international arbitration and all major forms of dispute resolution, as well as assisting owners and contractors with contract and claims management.
Kristian’s recent experience includes:
Before joining Clifford Chance Kristian was an in-house counsel with John Holland, and has worked in the global disputes team of a US-based global law firm. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a Councillor of CIArb Australia, and Chair of the CIArb Australia Young Member’s Group. He has a Masters degree in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution from King’s College London.
Shane has practised at the Queensland Bar since January 2005. He has a predominantly commercial practice, with experience in a wide variety of matters including building and construction, contractual disputes, corporations law, insolvency, intellectual property, professional indemnity claims, real property, restraint of trade, securities, tax litigation, and trade practices. He has also acted in succession (including family provision) and tort claims, and has specialist experience and expertise in public and private international law, including cross-border disputes and international arbitration.
Shane is a member of Level Twenty Seven Chambers in Brisbane, and is visiting counsel at 12 Wentworth Selborne Chambers in Sydney.
Before coming to the Bar, Shane spent three years as a Lecturer at New College, Oxford University (teaching contract and international law), and practised with leading firms in Brisbane and London.
Shane is also President of the Queensland Chapter of the International Law Association, and is a member of the management committee of the ILA’s Australian Branch.
Jeremy is a partner in the Disputes and Investigations team at Allens, based in Perth. He specialises in complex commercial disputes and has extensive experience in commercial litigation, arbitration, expert determination and mediation.
Much of Jeremy’s experience has concerned disputes in the energy and resources sector. He has represented clients in proceedings relating joint venture disputes, major project developments, asset acquisition, commodity pricing and engineering issues. Jeremy is dual qualified. In addition to his legal qualifications Jeremy has an honours degree in Engineering from the University of Western Australia.
A significant part of Jeremy’s practice involves assisting clients with high value and strategic arbitrations, both domestic and international. He is co-head of the national Arbitration Practice Group at Allens. He regularly acts in arbitrations concerning domestic and regional matters. He is active in the arbitration community and frequently presents on arbitration issues in the region.
Some of Jeremy’s relevant experience includes:
Qualifications
Damian is one of the longest serving national councillors of the Australia Branch and the head of the Dispute Resolution team at Marque Lawyers, where he specialises in international arbitration.
Damian has over 30 years’ experience as a commercial litigator with specialist expertise in the areas of international arbitration and cross border dispute resolution. He has run international arbitrations in London, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is recognised as one of Australia’s leading lawyers in the field of Dispute Resolution by Legal 500, Best Lawyers and the Chambers Global and Asia Pacific Guides.
Damian has worked for major law firms in Australia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. He was awarded the Diploma of Private International Law by the Hague Academy of International Law in 1998, an honour obtained by only six other Australians.
Damian is a past President of the Australian branch of the International Law Association and is the branch’s representative on the international committee on International Arbitration. He is also an Australian representative for the World Bank Doing Business survey and the Australian reporter for Kluwer Arbitration.
He is a visiting professorial fellow in international arbitration at UNSW law school and has lectured at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators Diploma Course as well as co-presenting the Accelerated Route to Fellowship course.
P: +61 2 8216 3066
E: damians@marquelawyers.com.au