MEMBERS OF CHAMBERS



  1. Stephen Owen-Conway QC
  2. Peter Faris QC
  3. James Crowley QC
  4. David Grace QC
  5. Maurice Neil QC
  6. John Karkar QC
  7. James Glissan QC
  8. Glen Miller QC
  9. Christopher Branson QC
  10. Peter Neil SC
  11. John Agius SC, QC
  12. Michael Tovey QC
  13. Mark E. Dean SC
  14. Natasha Owen-Conway
  15. Dominic Calabro
  16. Gerard Mullaly
  17. Stephen Shirrefs

Queen's Counsel and Senior Counsel


Stephen Owen-Conway QC
Dates and Places of Admission England & Wales 1973; QLD 1975; VIC 1976; WA 1977.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - WA 1992; QLD 1992.
Areas of Practice Administrative and constitutional; banking, finance and credit; commercial crime; contract corporations; customs; defamation; equity and trusts; freedom of information; immigration; insurance; intellectual property; landlord and tenant; native title; partnership; personal injuries and professional negligence; probate, wills and inheritance; property; racing and sports; superannuation; taxation and revenue; trade practices; worker's compensation; commercial arbitration.
State of Residence Western Australia
Contact Sir Lawrence Jackson Chambers
Direct Tel: (08) 9220 4205
Fax: (08) 9221 7701
Mobile: 0407 385 276
E-mail: stephen.owen-conway@sljc.com
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Peter Faris QC
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1963; NSW 1978; SA 1995; TAS 1995; WA 1995; QLD
1995; ACT 1995; NT 1995.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - VIC 1986; NSW 1988; TAS 1995;
SA 1995; ACT 1995; NT 1995;
QLD 1995; WA 1996.
Areas of Practice Criminal law.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Deakin Chambers
Tel: (03) 9670 1875
Fax: (03) 9670 9704
E-mail: faris@farislaw.com
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James Crowley QC
Dates and Places of Admission QLD 1959; WA 1996.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - QLD 1981; WA 1996.
Areas of Practice Administrative law including judicial review applications; construction summonses and actions concerning testamentary capacity; contract actions; criminal law; family law; industrial relation matters; personal injury actions; planning cases; vendor, purchaser and land title actions; wills and succession actions including family provision claims.
State of Residence Queensland
Contact Barrister's Chambers
Tel: (07) 3236 2710
Fax: (07) 3236 2751
E-mail: jcrowley@qldbar.asn.au
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David Grace QC
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1977; NSW 1981; NT 1988; WA 1991; SA 1994; TAS 1996.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - VIC 1994; WA 1996.
Areas of Practice Crime at the Appellate level; Court of Appeal and High Court - criminal advice.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Deakin Chambers
Tel: (03) 9600 0731
Fax: (03) 9600 0721
Mobile: 0419 888 849
E-mail: ndgrace@ozemail.com.au
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Maurice Neil QC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1967; NT 1981; WA 1987; ACT 1989; Ireland 1991; VIC
1992.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - NSW 1985; ACT 1990; WA 1992;
NT 1992.
Areas of Practice Administrative; advocacy - appellate; alternative dispute resolution; building; common law; corporations; criminal; defamation; environment and planning; equity; inquiries; insurance; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury; trade practices and competition law.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Wardell Chambers
Tel: (02) 9231 3133
Fax: (02) 9233 4164
E-mail: wardell@office.net.au
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John Karkar QC
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1975; NSW 1977; NT 1985; TAS 1986; ACT 1986; WA
1989; QLD 1991; SA 1991.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - VIC 1989; WA 1990; NSW, SA,
NT, ACT & TAS 1991.
Areas of Practice Banking and finance; companies and securities; mining and petroleum; professional negligence.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Owen Dixon Chambers
Tel: (03) 9225 7714
Fax: (03) 9225 8911
E-mail: jhkarkar@vicbar.com.au
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James Glissan QC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1971; NT 1986; SA 1987; WA 1988; QLD 1992; NZ 1992.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - NSW 1985; WA 1987.
Areas of Practice Administrative; advocacy - appellate; alternative dispute resolution; banking; building; common law; criminal law; defamation; discrimination employment; environment and planning; equity; immigration; industrial insurance; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury; workers' compensation.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Wardell Chambers
Tel: (02) 9231 3133
Fax: (02) 9233 4164
E-mail: wardell@office.net.au
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Glen Miller QC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1970; VIC 1982; NT 1982; WA 1983.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - VIC 1988; ACT 1988; NT 1989;
WA 1991.
Areas of Practice Administrative; building; common law; criminal law; environment and planning; local government; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury; special area - law.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Sir James Martin Chambers
Tel: (02) 9223 8088
Fax: (02) 9223 3989
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Christopher Branson QC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1975; ACT 1976; VIC 1977; NT 1978; QLD 1991; SA
1991; WA 1991; TAS 1992.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - NSW 1989; VIC 1990; ACT 1990;
SA 1991; NT 1991; TAS 1992; QLD 1992; WA 1992.
Areas of Practice Aviation; common law; equity; insurance; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury; professional liability; workers' compensation.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Tel: (02) 9232 6952
Fax: (02) 9221 6080
E-mail: ccbranson@bigpond.com
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Peter Neil SC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1977; WA 1977; ACT 1984.
Appointed Senior Counsel - NSW 1996
Areas of Practice Advocacy; common law; criminal; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury; special area - Torts.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Wardell Chambers
Tel: (02) 9231 3133
Fax: (02) 9233 4164
E-mail: wardell@office.net.au
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John Agius SC QC
Dates and Places of Admission NSW 1977; ACT 1989.
Appointed Senior Counsel - NSW 1995.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - WA 1997.
Areas of Practice Administrative law; advocacy; common law; corporations; criminal law; discrimination; industrial; negligence - medical and professional; personal injury.
State of Residence New South Wales
Contact Wardell Chambers
Tel: (02) 9231 3133
Fax: (02) 9233 3439
E-mail: wardell@office.net.au
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Michael Tovey QC
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1976; WA 1993; NSW 1994.
Appointed Queen's Counsel - VIC 1999.
Areas of Practice Administrative law; commercial law and criminal law.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Seabrook Chambers
Tel: (03) 9225 7073
Fax: (03) 9670 3505
E-mail: mtovey@ozemail.com.au
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Mark E. Dean SC
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1982; NSW 1984; SA 1986; WA 1995; QLD 1997.
Appointed Senior Counsel - VIC 2001
Areas of Practice Administrative law; criminal; employment law; Coronial Inquests, Inquiries, Occupational Health and Safety
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Owen Dixon Chambers
Tel: (03) 9225 7222
Fax: (03) 9225 8630
E-mail: medeansc@vicbar.com.au
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Junior Counsel


Natasha Owen-Conway
Dates and Places of Admission WA 1987.
Areas of Practice Administrative, constitutional; banking, finance and credit; contract; corporations; defamation; equity, trusts, intellectual property; landlord and tenant; medical negligence; partnership; personal injuries; workers' compensation; probate wills and inheritance, professional negligence; property and trade practices.
State of Residence Western Australia
Contact Sir Lawrence Jackson Chambers
Tel: (08) 9221 7700
Fax: (08) 9221 7701
Mobile: 0408 906 968
E-mail: natasha.owen-conway@sljc.com
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Dominic Calabro
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1976; WA (mediation only).
Areas of Practice Building disputes; commercial leasing disputes; company disputes; family law; finance and banking; personal injuries; partnership disputes and small business disputes; and property law.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Tel: (03) 9387 2355
Fax: (03) 9387 2366
Mobile: 0411 388 685
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Gerard Mullaly
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1996; WA 1997
Areas of Practice Administrative law; criminal; and employment law.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Gorman Chambers
Tel: (03) 9225 7444
Mobile: 0412 261 303
E-mail: mullbux@netspace.net.au
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Stephen Shirrefs
Dates and Places of Admission VIC 1980; NSW 1986; England & Wales 1986; WA 1993; ACT
1993; QLD 1999; SA 2000.
Areas of Practice Administrative; constitutional law; Coronial Inquests; criminal; occupational health and safety prosecutions.
State of Residence Victoria
Contact Owen Dixon Chambers
Tel: (03) 9225 8967
E-mail: s.a.shirrefs@vicbar.com.au
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