Practice Areas

Practice Areas

Barristers are, in general, specialist advocates, which distinguishes them from others in the legal profession.  But just like other lawyers, they have usually chosen to practice particular areas of the law.

Areas of Practice

Primary practice areas are set out below. Click on a practice areas to see more detailed practice areas.

  • Arbitration
  • Expert Determination
  • Mediation
  • Neutral Evaluation
  • References
  • Appellate
  • Banking and Finance
  • Bankruptcy
  • Building and Construction
  • Charities and Not-for-Profits
  • Companies
  • Competition
  • Consumer Protection
  • Contractual Disputes
  • Corporate Insolvency
  • Costs and costs assessment
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Partnership Disputes
  • Professional Liability
  • Real Property
  • Restraint of Trade
  • Securities and Investment
  • Strata and Community Title
  • Telecommunications and Broadcasting
  • Transport, Admiralty, Aviation, Maritime
  • Appellate
  • Costs and costs assessment
  • Dust Diseases
  • Insurance - Disability Claims
  • Intentional Torts
  • Judicial Review - Motor Accidents
  • Judicial Review - Workers Compensation
  • Professional Negligence
  • Work Injury Damages Claims
  • Workers Compensation
  • Appellate
  • Crimes against the Person
  • Drugs
  • Environmental and Planning Offences
  • Extradition
  • Fraud
  • Juvenile Justice
  • Mental Illness
  • Proceeds of Crime / Money Laundering
  • Property Offences
  • Sexual Assault
  • Traffic
  • White Collar and Corporate Crime
  • Work Health and Safety
  • Appellate
  • Civil Enforcement
  • Compulsory Acquisition of Land and Compensation
  • Local Government
  • Merit Appeals
  • Mining
  • Valuation of Land / Rating and Taxing Appeals
  • Appellate
  • Family Provision
  • Real Property
  • Trusts
  • Wills and Probate
  • Appellate
  • Care and Protection
  • Parenting Orders
  • Property
  • Appellate
  • Discrimination
  • Employment Contracts and Restraint of Trade
  • Industrial Disputes and Statutory Employment Rights
  • Public Sector Appeals
  • Work Health and Safety
  • Choice of Law and Jurisdiction
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • International Tax
  • Public International Law
  • Appellate
  • Civil and Human Rights
  • Constitutional Law
  • Customs
  • Disciplinary Proceedings
  • Discrimination
  • Extradition
  • Immigration Law
  • Judicial Review and Administration Law
  • Liquor Licensing
  • Merits Review
  • Native Title
  • Privacy and Freedom of Information
  • Proceeds of Crime
  • Appellate
  • Capital Gains Tax
  • Goods and Services Tax
  • Income Tax
  • International Tax
  • Land Tax
  • Payroll Tax
  • Stamp Duty and Other State Taxes
  • Superannuation
  • Tax Prosecutions
  • Broadcasting
  • Defamation
  • eCommerce
  • Entertainment
  • Information Technology and Computing
  • Telecommunications